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112 E. Sixth St., PO Box 382, Gaylord, MI 49734 www.WeeklyChoice.com (989) 732-8160
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A fascinating vari-ety of artists and thepatrons of the artshave a welcoming home inheart of downtown Gaylordthrough the ongoing efforts ofthis dedicated, talented groupof board volunteers and com-munity members, and theCommunity Arts Center locatedat 125 E. Main Street in down-town Gaylord.PHOTO BY JIM AKANS.
HIDDEN TREASURES
Positive News,
Sports and
EventsThursday, January 9, 2014
STORY
PAGE8
By Heather DeLong
A new glass wall was installed at the
Gaylord Community Center on
December 22nd that will provide handi-
cap access for watching games.
The Community Center is open seven
days a week and is the center of activity
in the county. It serves as the central
site for many of the countys athletic
events and is home to most a dult ath-
letic leagues and classes, including
Zumba, mens basketball, womens vol-
leyball, co-ed volleyball and tennis.
Another outstanding attribute of the
Community Center is the Bear
Basketball League for youth. Bear
Basketball brings more than 400 boys
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By Heather DeLong
The 21st Annual Winter Fest in
Mackinaw City is approaching and the
weather couldnt be more cooperative.
A celebration full of snow sculpting,
sleigh rides, outhouse races, poker
walk, ice-skating, arts and crafts, chili
cook-off, euchre tournament and
more awaits you!
Join in on the party at OReillys
Irish Pub and Dixie Saloon, and take
part in the Ice Fishing tournament on
Paradise Lake. Registration for ice
fishing is located at Paradise Lake
Marina in Carp Lake and the warming
station will be at the Pancake Chef.
Games for kids, teens and adults will
be played on East Central Avenue. You
cant make the snow disappear, so
why not plan for it?
The Mackinaw Pepsi International
Outhouse Races return with the first
place prize at $1,000 cash. Scheduled
at 2 pm on Saturday, January 18th, on
the Sheplers Lot located on Huron
Avenue and Central Avenue, the out-
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The American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Gaylord Area Branch will be hosting a Get Acquainted!
event on January 15 from 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the
Gaylord Area Council for the Arts (GACA) gallery at 125 E.
Main Street in Gaylord. The event is open to anyone who
wants to learn more about what AAUW is and what the
Gaylord Area Branch does in our local community.
We are excited to share what we do with the Otsego
County community, said Membership VP, Jane Sekora. It
will be a great time to chat with current members, enjoy
some refreshments, and learn how we work towards our mis-
sion of encouraging women to continue their education.
Attendees will learn about AAUW and what the group does.
They will also meet current AAUW members and learn what
the group has to offer.
AAUW is a nationwide organization that advances equity
for women and girls through advocacy, education, philan-
thropy, and research. The Gaylord Area Branch does this in a
number of ways including raising money for scholarships for
women continuing their educations, honoring local women
at the annual Woman
Making History luncheon,
celebrating graduating high
school seniors at a fall event,
and sponsoring programs toinspire girls to pursue edu-
cational goals.
For more information
about the AAUW Gaylord
Area Branch or about the
Get Acquainted! event, go
to http://gaylord-
mi.aauw.net/ or send an
email to
CHEBOYGAN - Just before Christmas, the
Bishop Baraga Catholic School Student Council
made a $200 donation to the St. Thomas Food
Pantry. Student Council President Ella Wright pre-
sented a $200 check to Lowell Beethem of the
Food Pantry. Money for the donation was raised
by the Schools students paying $1.00 each to wear
jeans to school on Fridays.
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and girls each year to the Community
Center gymnasium. Youth also attend
classes and training camps for gymnastics,
tennis and basketball there. Its also a pop-
ular place for kids to hang out after school
to get involved in games such as basketball,tennis, table games and more outdoors
when weather permits.
The stone building was the old Gaylord
High School gymnasium and didnt have
the best handicap accommodations for
everyone to enjoy the games, and the new
wall installation will allow for that. Monies
received for the wall include a $500 grant
from Wal-Mart and a $1,750 grant from
Otsego County Foundation. The wall took
two days to completely install and was fin-
ished on December 23rd.
If you get the chance to stop by to watcha game or join a league, check out the new
glass wall at Gaylord Community Center!
For any questions, call the Community
Center at (989) 732-6521
To contact Heather DeLong for any com-
ments questions or concerns, send an email
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Winterfest Continued...house races begin with a Parade of Pottys
you have to witness. Races are open to
adult and junior teams with rules that
apply. Visit
www.mackinawouthouserace.com or call
231-436-5493 to learn more about the race
or to become a participant.
The Chili Cook Off Competition will run
from 11 am to 1 pm at JRs Tailgate Pub
located at 101 East Central Avenue. Show
up to sample and vote f or the best recipe.
Registration to enter your chili recipe is lim-
ited due to space requirements so act
quickly and call the Chamber of Commerce
at 231-436-5574 for your chance to enter.
The cook off is held by the Legion annually
and requires that taste testers ha ve a Winter
Fest Button upon request.
Play with the cards youre dealt in the
Euchre Tournament for $5 (with a Winter
Fest button) from 1 to 3 pm! Mancinos of
Mackinaw City at 717 South Nicolet Streethis hosting this event for participants 18
and older. Register at 11 am til noon and
call Diane Fry for more information at 231-
436-7474 for more information.
The Snow Sculpting competition, upon
weather permission, will kick off next
Thursday, January 16th and continue
through the 18th. Prizes will be awarded
following the judging on Saturday at 1:30
pm. Local sculptors are welcome to register
until January 14th, also the sculpting event
cancel date. For weather updates on snow
sculpting and ice fishing, call the Mackinaw
City Chamber Office at 888-455-8100 or
visit www.mackinawchamber.com.
For a complete list of Winter Fest events,
visit www.mackinawcity.com/winter-fest-
2014.
What are you waiting for! Purchase your
$3 Winter Fest button at the Chamber of
Commerce Office. The snow is here to stay
for the winter season, and the Winter Fest
will have you shoveling your way to
Mackinaw City!
To contact Heather DeLong for any com-
ments, questions or concerns, send an email
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By Jim Akans
For those who havent visited Angels at
Work Resale for a while, plenty has been
changing at the store including an expansion
of their furniture items, redesigned display
areas, and several new repurposed items
for sale that feature unique ways to utilize
common household goods. Examples
include mason jar oil lamps, chalkboards
made from old cribs, wonderful garden
accessories made from old windows and
screen doors, and much more. Angels at
Work Resale has also recently opened aPinterest/DIY (do it yourself) area for shop-
pers to browse and explore their creative tal-
ents.
Customers tell us they love these unique,
one-of-kind items, relates Theresa Lauber,
owner of Angels at Work Resale. They also
tell us how much they enjoy shopping here.
The cleanliness of our store, the variety of
our inventory, and our very reasonable
prices are a pleasant surprise. They feel very
comfortableits a warm, home-style atmos-
phere.
Indeed, the wide array of items offered at
Angels at Work Resale are presented in sever-
al comfortable rooms throughout the 2,400
square foot facility, each focusing on a tar-
geted range of goods, providing an effortless
way to browse items of interest.
We offer quality, thoroughly cleaned
clothing at very reasonable prices, notes
Lauber.
We also have even more furniture, house
wares, tools, books, shoes, belts and acces-
sories, a wide assortment of knickknacks,
antiques, and much more.
But thats not all thats happening at
Angels at Work Resale. The store also offers
weekly specials with 50 percent off on specif-
ic clothing items identified by colored
tagsand their inventory of those items
changes every week.
Those who donate items to Angels at Work
Resale receive a 25-percent discount card for
purchases that is valid for 30 days from the
time of their donation. The store does not
offer consignment sales.
Angels at Work Resale is located at 1523 S.
Otsego Avenue (U.S. 27 South) in Gaylord.
They are open Monday through Saturdays
from 10 am to 5 pm. For additional informa-
tion, please call (989) 448-8615.
By Yvonne Stegall
With Christmas out of the way, many of us are trying to fig-
ure out how we are going to pay off all those credit card bills
from all of that shopping and still be able to eat. If you are
one of the families lucky enough to have had someone off
work for a couple weeks for holiday shutdowns, you may be
suffering even more right now. But there is help. Whether
you need assistance in getting food for your household, or
just need a cheap place to shop, Oscoda County has many
places that can help you.
For food Mio has a couple wonderful discount stores.
Discount Foods is a bent and dent store that is open 7 days a
week, located right in town next to the Shell station at 210 N.
Morenci. They have a little bit of everything, and more than
just food. Some items are outdated, so if you're picky you
will need to check expiration dates. They carry lots of cereal,
canned goods, household items, milk, bread, spices, makeup
and more. There is also Country Corners, a nd Amish owned
bulk foods store located at 1284 W. Kittle in Mio. They are
open Monday to Saturday, closed on Sunday. They also carry
bent and dent groceries, household items, crafty stuff, lots of
books, supplements and a wonderful variety of bulk foods
and spices, for reasonable prices. As well, they often have
bacon or lunch meats, eggs, and other cold grocery items.
And they have the best selection of cheese in the area.
If you can't afford food at all, many of the community
churches have food pantries. More information on them can
be gotten by contacting Oscoda County DHS or Love, Inc. in
Fairview.
If you need clothing, furniture, or other household items
not food, Mio is home to a couple resale shops that are sure
to have what you are looking for. On Morenci, next to Rite
Aid, is Strawberry Patch. Strawberry Patch has a lot of
clothes, books and more. They have a off back room where
you can also get clothes for $4 a bag. Then there is Finders
Keepers on 8th St, just west of Family Dollar. Also a thrift
store, Finders Keepers has a lot of clothing for all ages, tons
of books, furniture, shoes, and household items.
Learn how you can keep more money from your timber
harvest at this two part workshop January 23 presented bySusan Metcalfe of Metcalfe Forestry LLC & Burns Timber Tax
Service
Paying taxes is a nasty business in the forestry world, but
luckily, Susan is here to help! During the first hour of our
workshop, Susan will be discussing a range of topics involv-
ing your potential taxes on the money earned by buying and
selling timber, and how to keep more money in your pocket
& pay less in tax. This talk will also cover myths common in
the forestry and accounting communities, explain about the
capital gains treatment of the purchase and sale of timber,
give valuable tips on how some loggers can drastically
reduce their regular income and tax liability, and how some
landowners can pay no tax on their timber sale revenue.
How can I save money on my forested acreage? Is there
some kind of tax incentive program I can enroll in? In the
second hour of our discussion, Lora Freer will be discussingthe Qualified Forest Program and the Commercial Forest Act.
These two programs are meant to reduce taxes for forest land
owners that make an effort to manage their woodlands for
anything ranging from timber production, to wildlife habitat,
to recreation, and much more. Tax reduction programs are
presented by District Forester Lora Freer of Ogemaw &
Oscoda Conservation Districts.
This workshop will be held Thursday January 23rd from
5:30pm-7:30pm at the AuSable River Center, 211 N. Main St.
in Roscommon. For more information or to RSVP, please
contact Brittany Mauricette, District Forester for the Otsego
Conservation District and Roscommon Conservation
District. Call 989-732-4021 or e-mail bmauricette@otsego-
countymi.gov
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By James Conway
When you got married, you and your part-
ner probably discussed all sorts of things,
from the Mercedes you wished you were driv-ing to how many kids you wanted and where
you wanted to be in twenty years. If you
havent already found out, time and circum-
stances can change those plans almost from
moment to moment. One of the most impor-
tant things you can do for yourself, your
spouse and your children is to make sure that
the discussion of plans, goals and dreams
never stops. Your family can work as a team to
meet goals and handle setbacks. While you
might find that you cant get everything you
wanted starting out, you just might find, to
quote a Sixties rocker, you get what you need.
Here are some things to keep in mind.
1. Things do change. The important thing isto keep the ball rolling in a positive direction,
even if its a new one. You might find after a
couple of years that you hate the job that was
going to be your lifelong occupation. You
might have twins. A thousand things can hap-
pen, so dont look upon obstacles or the unex-
pected as failures, but as challenges and
opportunities.
2. Keep the conversation going. If there is a
single thing that can cause problems in a marriage or in a family, it is the gradual ero-
sion of communication over
time. Jobs become more
demanding and stressful, the
needs of children intervene,
expectations become written
in stone. Even if you cant
have a family dinner every
night of the week, schedule at
least one night when all
screens are off, the answer-
ing machine is on and you
have a family roundtable
where everyone can update
everyone else on whats going
on in their lives, and in their
heads.
3. Start a Book of the
Family. If you look in your
family Bible or Baby book,
you may just find that the last
thing you wrote down aboutanyone in your family was
the day they were born and
how much they weighed.
Keep a yearly scrapbook (or
special box) of photographs,
kids drawings, awards, arti-
cles and so on, plus a diary
for which someone takes the
responsibility to chronicle
the family perhaps once a week at the fami-
ly meeting. Be as high or as low tech as you
want, but make sure that every year at holiday
time you have something to look back on and
be thankful for.
4. Coordinate your lives. Every once in a
while, or every day, one or more family mem-
bers can find themselves working at cross
purposes to everyone else, whether its need-
ing to be picked up from soccer practice or
considering a job transfer from across the
country. These are family decisions, and
should be discussed and worked out in such a
way that everyone can participate, even if it
means making compromises. Some of the
best lessons you can teach your children is
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that many of the things they want require
work and sacrifice. This doesnt mean empha-
sizing that you worked like a slave for five
hours to buy that Barbie doll. It means thateveryone bands together to solve problems
and help each other meet new challenges.
5. Learn, accept, and evolve. If you make
the effort over time to communicate, chroni-
cle and coordinate your familys lives, dreams
and goals in both the short and long term,
you may find that this step comes naturally.
Every generation contributes new ideas andinformation that you can either close out or
be open to. If you shut down your ability to
learn something new about the world, about
a family member or about others, youre shut-
ting down the engine that keeps your family
going. Follow the old adage of accepting the
inevitability of change with grace and wis-
dom. Your daughter may give up champi-
onship tennis for medicine, you son may
abandon the law for auto mechanics. With
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but once youve processed all the pros and
cons, accept change and incorporate it into
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past is absolutely the best way of shutting out
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