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SCOTTVILLE — Marcia Visscher started as Scottville Area Senior Center director on Dec. 9 and is still learn-ing the ropes — including getting to know the seniors

who come to the center, be-coming familiar with all the activities and understand-ing what people want out of their center.

“I have been meeting a lot of people,” Visscher

SEE DIRECTOR, PG 3MELISSA KEEFER | DAILY NEWS

Marcia Visscher chats with Harv Buter and Jack Quillan while they are enjoying a lunch at the senior center.

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DIRECTORFROM PAGE 2

said about her time in Scottville so far. She has also been learning about several of the programs that Scottville’s center offers uniquely, includ-ing respite care, Keep In Touch and medical trans-portation.

“People have been won-derful. They have made me feel really welcome,” Visscher said. “It’s a big change, I was worried people would look at me and wonder what I was doing here, but that didn’t happen.”

Visscher has lived in the area since 1997, was a snowbird to Arizona and then lived there for a while. Most recently, she served as activity direc-tor for a community in Apache Junction, Arizo-na, with 730 residences in the complex. Because she enjoyed what she did in Arizona, when the po-sition came up in Scott-ville, she was excited. “It was a perfect fit.”

She said when she was interviewed for the posi-tion, she was asked what she sees for the future of the program and at that time, she said, “I need to know the program to see what’s going on,” which she is still doing.

Looking aheadVisscher said she

“loves the look of the renovations that have taken place at the center” and said, “It looks so big, and so light and cheer-

ful. It’s just beautiful and we owe praise to Donna (Addington, recently re-tired director) for that.”

Because her job at the Apache Junction senior community was as an activity director, Viss-cher is looking forward to working with Sharon Bailey on activities at the center, especially those to bring in the communi-ty’s younger seniors.

“I found out in Arizona that seniors that used to go out for dances, to play cards and go to potlucks

are no longer doing that,” Visscher said. “They want to do outdoorsy events and health-orient-ed things.”

One of the differences between her job then and now, is bringing people in from the community, into the center, rather than people in a commu-nity taking advantage of events going on in their own living community.

“People used to come to Arizona as snow-birds,” Visscher said. “They are there to partic-ipate in anything and ev-erything.”

In Scottville, Visscher said, people who live elsewhere around town have to be drawn in to the center for events.

“I am very interested in hearing from younger seniors in the communi-ty,” Visscher said. “About what would bring them to the center and which activities should the cen-

ter add.”One of her ideas for an

interesting event each week is “to bring an in-formative series to the center, with a new pre-sentation, speaker, etc., each week, because once something is down on a schedule, it sticks in peo-ple’s minds.”

Visscher said she is still thinking about which ac-tivities make the most sense locally.

Although Addington is retired, Visscher said the former director will still go on trips with the senior center in the first year, so Visscher will not have to leave town while still getting to know the operations of the center.

She is still feeling ev-erything out and doesn’t have a clear vision for change for the center yet, “I just want to contin-ue to make this a viable place for the seniors in the community.”

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MELISSA KEEFER | DAILY NEWS

Marcia Visscher is the Scottville Area Senior Center’s new director.

February at the Scottville Area Senior Center

SCOTTVILLE — February will feature some fabulous fun at the center.

We want to find your face at a few of our fine events. After meeting new friends, you might finish the month with fond memories and the Center as a favorite place to be!

NEW! LINE DANCING Beginner Line Dancing les-

sons will start on Thursdays, beginning Feb. 6 at 1 p.m. It’s a fun way to get moving, and the instruction will be paced for beginners.

VALENTINE POTLUCK

A Valentine’s Day potluck is open to all seniors, wheth-er you bring a valentine or not. All our potlucks have amazing food, and you will definitely enjoy the camara-derie, as well. Join us Feb 13 from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

SIT & BE FIT Chair exercises are offered

to keep you flexible and moving on both Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.

WII BOWLING We’ve got room for more

Wii bowling teams. It’s a great way to exercise and have lots of fun doing it. Don’t know how? That’s ok, we’d love to teach you.

BINGO Bingo is played each Fri-

day morning at 10 a.m. in the card room. There is no need to sign up, just come and have fun. Bingo lasts about an hour and a half and is done in time for lunch.

QUILTERS Bring your quilting proj-

ects and join a great group of quilters on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

CARDS Join in a card game at the

center: • Pinochle is at 1 p.m. on

the first and third Sundays and 1 p.m. on Wednesdays

• Euchre is at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays

• Set-back is at 1 p.m. on Fridays.

ROOT BEER FLOATS This event continues to be

a favorite, despite the frigid temperatures. Join us Thurs-day, Feb 27. Suggested dona-tion is 50 cents.

BLOOD PRESSURE AND BLOOD SUGAR

Blood tests are taken on the fourth Wednesday of each month for free. Next test is Feb. 26 at 11 a.m.

STROKE SUPPORT GROUP Meeting is Thursday, Feb.

19 at 2:30 p.m.

PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP Meeting is Wednesday,

Feb. 26 at 10:30 a.m.

SENIOR MEALS Meals are provided at the

center at noon by MCC’s kitchen. Each meal includes a generous salad bar and a hot meal with coffee and milk. The suggested dona-tion is $3 or $5 if you are un-der 60 years old.

If you need a ride for lunch and you live in Ludington or Scottville, Dial-a-Ride will pick you up and take you home for free. This is paid for by the senior millage, through MCC Schools’ se-nior meal program.

$1 LUNCH Join us on Thursday, Feb.

27, for our monthly lunch special.

BAD WEATHER CLOSINGThe Scottville Area Senior

Center is closed when MCC Schools are closed. Check the for school closings be-fore you go out in inclement weather.

Have questions? Call Bob at the Center 757-4705 to get answers. The coffee is al-ways on.

‘I just want to continue to make this a viable place for the seniors in the community.’

Marcia Visscher


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SCOTTVILLE — Improvika Acting Company will present scenes from “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” during Scottville’s Blizzard Blast on Saturday, Jan. 25.

“I wanted to feature a few of my younger kids and I knew this would be the perfect show to do so. I have so many talented kids ages 7-16, but these younger kids needed a chance to shine,” director and owner of the acting company Anesa Beilfuss said.

She continued, “‘Wardrobe’ is such a perfect show for the wintertime, especially the selection I chose.”

The story The four children in the scene are experienc-

ing a bit of cabin fever as they are confined to the upstairs of an old mansion out in the countryside of England. The youngest child, Lucy, discovers a wardrobe that is, in fact, a door into another world - Narnia.

“We just recently had this ‘Snowpocalypse,’ as I

like to call it, and I am sure with all the snow days and blizzard like conditions, several kids were go-ing a bit stir crazy, much like Lucy,” Beilfuss said.

The cast Molly Shay (playing Susan) and Ian VanHouten

(Edmund) have been students and performers through Improvika for more than two years. Kate Shank (Lucy) has been a student and performer for almost a year, and Ryland Gigante (Peter) has been involved off and on in performances over the last year and half. The little “rookie” — Miss Killian Kruer (the narrator) — is debuting in her

first theatrical production. “All of them are so excited for the opportunity

to perform for Scottville audiences. It gives them a change of pace and an opportunity to get out of the studio space in Ludington,” Beilfuss said.

Improvika Acting Company will be perform-ing this 20-minute selection from “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” at the Scottville Bliz-zard Blast on Saturday, Jan. 25. There are three opportunities to see the scene, at 11:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m., and 1 p.m. at the Scottville Optimist Hall.

“We are having so much fun in rehearsals,” Beil-fuss said about preparing for the show. “I am re-minded every time I see these kids why I love my job. There is never a dull moment as we are con-stantly laughing while practicing British accents and learning to be more proper. These kids never cease to amaze me with their passion for the arts, and their determination to be the best they can be. I am just thrilled to be a part of each one of their artistic journeys.”

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During Scottville’s Blizzard Blast, The Scot-tville Area Senior Center will be hosting a Chili Cook-Off on Saturday, Jan 25.

A taste test will be happening from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and eating will take place from 12:30 p.m. 50 -2 p.m. (To enter your chili in the cook-off, register by Jan. 22 by calling 757-4705, or stop into the Center to enter your name. There is no entry fee.) To taste and judge the

different chilis that will be offered, come into the center be-tween 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., and for $1 you can taste and judge them all. After the chili is judged, chili will be available by the bowl for only $2 per bowl, (with all the toppings!)

Pop and ottled water will also be available for $1. Don’t miss it!

Quilt showAlso, during the chili

cook-off, quilts will be on display to enjoy and some to purchase in the center, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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BY MELISSA KEEFERDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

SCOTTVILLE — Organizers of Scottville’s Blizzard Blast 2014 are hoping this year’s event brings families down-town to spend time together during this winter, which has already become too long and snowy for some.

“We hope to keep families busy doing something togeth-er for the afternoon,” Cathy Gilchrist, an organizer of the event, said. “Hopefully we can have events both inside and outside, but it all depends on the weather. We hope it works out well.”

Gilchrist said the event has changed from last year be-cause organizers realized the events were too spread out, so they moved everything to the Scottville Optimist Hall or near it, in the same area.

She said the snowman-mak-ing contest was a lot of fun a couple years ago when there was a lot of snow and hopes

the snow cooperates. “I really liked the snowman contest. People brought all kinds of things to decorate the snow-men with,” Gilchrist said.

Either way, there are still plenty of events planned for people of all ages inside the Scottville Optimist Hall, in-cluding scenes from “The Lion,

the Witch and the Wardrobe,” entertainment by John Marek, a craft and bake sale, interac-tive story reading, and more.

“We had the information

stations in the past,” Gilchrist said about the event. “The ani-mal identification station was here before and we will have that back.”

She said an interesting infor-mation station is one where Dave Hallberg will talk about jalopy racing that used to take place in Scottville.

“He will talk about the races they used to have,” Gilchrist said. “And evidently Dave has inherited one of the jalopies and is refurbishing it to race at Winston, which is cool.”

She said it’s too bad he won’t have the jalopy at Blizzard Blast, but he can’t because it isn’t finished yet.

“We want to keep doing dif-ferent things each year to keep people having fun and com-ing out,” Gilchrist said. She said while this year they don’t have room for more informa-tion stations,

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11:30 A.M. TO 2 P.M. Chili Cook-off and Quilt Show at the Scottville Area Senior Center

11 A.M. TO 2 P.M. Events in the Scott-ville Optimist Building

- BATTLE OF THE BEARDS, sign in at 1 p.m. (People’s Choice Awards to follow)

- CHILDREN’S GAMES, drawings and prizes

- ENTERTAINMENT by John Marek- IMPROVIKA Acting Company presents “The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe” skits throughout the event (11:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m., and 1 p.m.)

- PHIL GIGANTE presents interactive story reading

- INFORMATION STATIONS set up throughout the hall

• ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION EXHIBIT - Mason-Lake Conservation District

• JALOPY RACING IN SCOTTVILLE - Dave Hallberg

• CRAFT/BAKE SALE - Nature’s Path 4-H Club

- SNOWMAN-MAKING CONTEST - bring your own accessories and judging at noon

- CHICKEN BOWLING, sled racing, s’mores

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BY MELISSA KEEFER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

SCOTTVILLE — Call-ing all men with beards — come to the Scottville Optimist Hall for a beard contest Jan. 25 at 1 p.m.

Scottville Blizzard Blast organizer Cathy Gilchrist thought of the idea.

“It just seems like a lot of men are running around with beards lately and I thought it

might be popular.”She used the men from

“Duck Dynasty” as an ex-ample of what has made beards popular.

“I really have no idea how it will turn out, but how cool would it be if we could get 100 guys with beards in Scottville all at once.”

Gilchrist said it is also something fun for men who have beards to com-

pete in. “It is probably going to

be hard to pick the best beard,” she said. “But we will have a people’s choice and maybe have a barber there for a bar-ber’s choice. It’s not go-ing to be too elaborate, because I don’t know what to expect, but may-be it will be bigger in the future.”

When the idea came to Gilchrist for the beard contest, she looked it up online and said it is pop-ular in Germany and Eng-land.

“I saw the winner for 2012 and it was a young-er person that had a huge, long beard and his

mustache was long and twisted up and curled,” Gilchrist said.

She said the event should be fun and a chance for something different to see how many entries there are.

“I thought it would be a cute idea if when we get them all together we get a photo of all of the beards,” Gilchrist said. She said maybe if it goes well this year, men will have a whole year to plan their beards for 2015.

Registration is at 1 p.m. at the Scottville Optimist Hall, and Gilchrist said she is excited to see what entries come in.

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BY MELISSA KEEFERDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Scottville native Scott Gundersen has become internation-

ally known online for his wine bottle cork art, scoring him commis-sioned work from as far as Singapore and recent-ly, a gig doing a mural of Courteney Cox’s face as part of a promo for “Cougar Town” on NBC.

Gundersen did his first cork art project for Art-Prize 2009. It was a por-trait of his wife, Jeanne, made up of corks he had collected from friends and area businesses. He was one of the top 50 that year and followed up in 2010 with a larger cork art piece of a friend named Grace. The two pieces were sold to Rip-ley’s Believe It or Not.

“I haven’t been in Art-Prize since then. I have been mainly busy with the commissioned pieces

that people ask me for,” Gundersen said. “Plus, between teaching and having two little girls un-der 3, there hasn’t been time for ArtPrize.”

Gundersen said he did five commissioned cork art pieces in 2013, including two non-por-traits.

“One woman hired me to do an image of her de-ceased dog to give to her husband as a 20th anni-versary gift,” Gundersen said. “The other non-por-trait piece was a hotel in New York that asked me to do a logo for a ‘Toast Around The World’ wine event at the hotel.”

Gundersen’s three por-

traits included two for a couple in Singapore of their children and the Courteney Cox mural for “Cougar Town.”

His work has drawn requests from all over the country and most recently from outside of the United States. He said he believes ArtPrize helped him with requests for work, but believes his work on the internet has helped as well.

“I did a time-lapse video that has been viewed by more than 300,000 people and people have blogged about it,” Gundersen said. “I have also posted my art on Tumblr and just start-

ed an Instagram. Some people have also been pinning images on Pinter-est under ‘recycled art’ or ‘wine-related art.’”

THE PROCESSGundersen starts his

murals with a photo, draws the photo by hand on the space the corks will be pinned, places nails in the piece from behind to hold the corks, and places the corks. He said different wines cre-ate corks of different hues.

Doing his wife’s and a friend’s portrait was pretty easy for Gunder-sen because he has seen them before. For com-missioned pieces, he has to work with the person to even find a photo that will work for his cork piece.

“Agreeing upon a photo that will work well is hard sometimes,” Gundersen said. “And, for example, it would be hard for me to go to Singapore and get a photo.”

He said the parents in Singapore sent photos to him. He looked through them and asks for what he would like in a photo, for example closer up or better lighting to show shadows.

“We generally e-mail back and forth until we

are both happy with a photo,” Gundersen said. “I look for a photo that I think will translate well. I need something that is close up and very clear and crisp.”

He said there have been people who have sent him a group photo of people and wanted him to just zoom in on the person, which he said doesn’t work well be-cause as you zoom in on a photo, you begin to lose detail.

Gundersen builds his cork art in an old furni-ture warehouse turned art studio in Grand Rap-ids. He said when a piece is commissioned, he asks for 4 to 6 weeks to finish the piece, allowing him time to teach and still spend time with his fam-ily.

When he first did his cork projects for Art-Prize, he spent time col-lecting the corks. Now that he is doing several a year, some on a larger scale, he works with a company WidgetCo out of Texas to purchase re-cycled corks at about six cents each.

“For small pieces, like the one of my wife, I used between 3,000 and 4,000 corks,” Gundersen said. “And one of the ones I am sending to Singapore is

about 4,000 corks.”From private clients,

he has made $5,000 to $12,000 on the cork art pieces, depending on the size. “They cost more the bigger they are.”

A BIG OPPORTUNITYAlthough Gundersen

had never really watched “Cougar Town” before, he said he watched a portion of the TBS show on You-Tube when he was hired to do the project, to see what it was all about.

“I was told they drink wine in the show, which is why they wanted the cork art,” Gundersen said, explaining why a wine cork art piece as a promotional piece for the show’s fifth season, which began last night, is a perfect pair.

“When the advertising firm in California was coming up with an idea for ‘Cougar Town,’ they were trying to come up with a unique advertis-ing campaign for the fifth season,” Gundersen said. “They had seen my work online featured as wine-related art, the firm pitched it to TBS, and they hired me to make a mural for the show.”

Gundersen was flown to Los Angeles where

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Corkcreations

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Where they are now


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Cole’s Antiques Villa moving to ScottvilleBY STEVE BEGNOCHEMANAGING EDITOR

SCOTTVILLE — Jerry and Sally Cole are moving their Cole’s Antiques Villa to downtown Scottville with the hopes of opening in the former Frick’s Gen-eral Store on 120 North Main Street by May.

In fact, they are moving more than their business, they are also moving into the upstairs seeking to sell their long-time home in Hamlin Township.

The move is prompted by a desire to downsize as they enter what for many people would be their retire-ment years.

It wasn’t a move they had planned, but when the opportunity presented itself, it was one that made sense, Sal-ly said.

The former owner, Neil J. Frick died in July. The Coles were asked to come in to consider doing an estate sale. Frick had operated an antique busi-ness out of the store, too, and was known for his Civil War and Abraham Lincoln collectibles as well as toys, signs and a dairy collection.

“I hadn’t been here in a while,” Sal-ly said Tuesday afternoon as she and Jerry worked in the store prepar-ing for the end-of-March estate sale that will precede them moving in. “It hit me. This is a wonderful opportu-nity to own a home and a business here and do what Neil did. That was in November. It was absolutely crystal clear.”

So they’ll leave the 4,800 square foot Ludington Avenue store they’ve ran for the past 28 years, and move to the two-floor building across from Scot-tville’s Wesco that has 1,600 square feet per floor.

Eight of the current 27 vendors in their Ludington antique mall will move with them. All will have less space. “We’re all downsizing a lot. That’s the heart of it,” Sally said.

Moving with them will be Baars Gold Coast Collectibles, Tim and Roni’s

Elegant Junk, RJ and Me, Cat in the Cradle, Eternal Treasures, J&D Col-lectibles, Victorian Antiques, Drum-lin Wood Antique Fishing Tackle and SDW Antiques.

Sally said she hopes that the Neal family of Ludington which owns the Ludington Avenue building can per-haps keep an antique mall going, per-haps blending some other business with it.

She said she likes to think the move will create two businesses, not repre-sent a loss for Ludington.

“I’d like to think we have one good thing and it’s being divided to have two good things.”

“Ludington has been wonderful,” she said. “We have a lot of great mem-ories from Ludington. We have a won-derful clientele.”

The Ludington store will open as usual in February as Coles prepare for the Frick estate sale at the Scottville location.

When the three-day sale is complete, they will paint and clean the walls, be-ing careful not to paint over stencil-ing along the edge of the ceiling. Then they’ll transform the upstairs into their home.

Sally said they’ll be open for busi-ness, she hopes, by sometime in May, though they likely will continue to work on the building as they operate the store.

She said she’ll plant gardens on the south side of the building in what she describes as “a postage stamp size lot.”

And she hopes to get involved in ef-forts to help Scottville.

“We’re probably going to be a spark over here,” she said, adding there are “a lot of fun things we can do over here.

“You never know what this might in-spire for us when it happens.”

She said they feel fortunate that at this juncture they can begin another facet of business continuing on the success of Cole’s Antique Villa.

STEVE BEGNOCHE | DAILY NEWSJerry and Sally Cole stand are opening their business in Scottville, in the former Frick’s General Store.


SCOTTVILLE — Mark your calendar for Saturday, March 1, 2014, for the An-nual Spring CommUNITY Auction, the premier social event for Scottville. The Scottville Optimist Building will be filled with “something for everyone” just wait-ing for the right bid. Hundreds of items, from food to home décor to service packages, will be going home with the highest bidder. Included in the ticket for the party are, an appetizer buffet, bever-ages, door prizes, raffles, and a whole lot of fun. This year’s theme: “Hats Off to You.”

The auction began initially as a fund-raising event for the Scottville Chamber of Commerce to help support various community activities. The MCC Edu-cational Foundation soon became a sponsoring partner. The Ludington & Scottville Area Chamber assumed the co-sponsor role when the Scottville and Ludington Chamber groups consolidat-ed and now 2013 marks the 19th year for this annual event.

The auction is the primary fundraiser for the MCC Educational Foundation, which uses its portion of the proceeds to support the staff and students of Ma-son County Central Schools in the form of mini-grants, scholarships, and spon-sorship of programs such as SADD Post Prom and the school-wide art show. The foundation is celebrating its 25th anni-versary this year.

Tickets are on sale now. For more in-formation contact the chamber at 845-0324.

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he spent 10 days work-ing on his mural. The company had him work-ing at “a fancy outdoor mall, which has a lot of foot traffic,” to create the piece. He said that was part of the promo-tion for the show, to see him building the piece and also having the piece to promote the show and new season.

“I had a lot of people stop,” Gundersen said. “I did it all there.”

Gundersen estimated his mural of Courteney Cox for the show would take 60,000 corks, so he ordered 75,000 from Wid-getCo for the project, giv-ing him extras if needed and more color choices based on how the wine stained the cork.

Because Cox’s hair is so dark and she has dark features, “I stained 5,000 corks a little darker. I only do that for portraits that have an element that needs to be nearly black.

“It is labor intensive,” Gundersen said about staining the corks. “I built a frame and stacked the corks. Then, I create a mix of wine and India ink and spray the corks and let it stain. If I want it darker I will stain it more. I like to keep the color a wine base.”

Gundersen, under con-tract, can’t talk about how much he is being paid for this project, but said it was helpful he had a cou-ple assistants.

“It was a bit more pres-sure,” Gundersen said

about working out in the open, on a 10 day time schedule. “But I never felt like I was being pushed or rushed. I was able to have two assistants with me to fill in the empty areas and fill in the background when I was doing the por-trait. Both of them had art backgrounds and on the first day I was able to teach them a few tricks.”

This was the first piece Gundersen has done out of his studio.

TEACHING ARTGundersen has been an

art teacher at Wayland Union High School for 11 years.

“I teach nine different classes,” he said. Classes include painting, drawing, graphic design, photogra-phy and more.

He hasn’t had his class-es do a cork art project yet. “I thought about a way to do it, but the prob-lem is corks are big and in a mural you have to do so many, it may not look right to do a smaller piece with say only 100 corks.”

Gundersen, a 1997 graduate of Mason Coun-ty Central High School, spent two years at West

Shore Community Col-lege while he was deciding what he wanted to do as a career.

“At West Shore, I had two really great art teach-ers, Todd Reed in pho-tography and Ed Traub for painting,” Gunder-sen said. “After having Ed and Todd and having such a great experience with those two, it in-spired me because I want-ed to do what they had done for me.”

After his two years at WSCC, Gundersen went to Western Michigan Uni-versity and studied art education.

“I would like to thank them for inspiring me,” Gundersen said.

His cork art has taken up most of his free time for art, but his favorite medium on his own is drawing.

“I like to just draw with a pencil,” Gunder-sen said. “I do a lot of portraits in pencil. But, I love all mediums. I like to paint and do ceramics. And in my classroom, I get to do a little bit of ev-erything.”

While he doesn’t have any pieces commissioned for 2014 yet he has re-ceived some e-mails of interest. “I have been talking with a gentleman from Dubai who wants me to make a portrait for his Japanese restaurant in Dubai.”

He is hoping to have an-other good year in 2014 for his cork art, and the “Cougar Town” oppor-tunity makes for a good start.

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Gena Nelson, newly retired Postmaster of Scottville, stands with Steve Stidham, who is now Officer in Charge in Nelson’s absence until they name a new Postmaster.

Gena Nelson retires as Postmaster of Scottville

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