Garden Club - Photo

Traverse City, Mich. - 05/20/2005 - Violet Bernard, 10, Cora Oakley, a parent volunteer, and Joseph Kiessling, 10, work in the Traverse City Central Grade Schools garden club flower and vegetable garden. The garden has a verity of flowers and vegetables and is an organic garden.

It's Still On! - Photo

Suttons Bay, Mich. - 05/20/2005 - With the Suttons Bay Jazz Festival being cancelled at the last minute this year, Suttons Bay business owners have decided to have a Suttons Bay Music Festival instead. Bruce Vaughn is trying to get the word out that there will be a music festival and line up entertainment.

Glass Beads - Photo

Traverse City, Mich. - 05/17/2005 - Rebecca Poinsett slowly heats a glass rod and rolls it onto a metal rod as the melted glass forms a bead. “"While you do give up control of the way the glass flows you still try to control it to a point when making a bead,” Poinsett said. Each bead she makes is painstakingly crafted from soft glass. Soft glass is also called "soda-lime" glass, and melts at low temperatures and is a mixture of silica, calcium, & sodium. “"I think the best soft glass comes from Italy or Germany and I use Moretti, Vetrofond and Lauscha glass from those countries,"” she added.

Portfolio Replaced - Photo

Traverse City, Mich. - 05/18/2005 - BJ Brick’s art portfolio, full of glossy posters, brochures and business logos, was destroyed by fire in an apartment he was living in while attending Miami University in Ohio. Bricks classmates reconstructed the portfolio for him. “I’m pretty sure they were working around the clock, having assembly lines and stuff,” Brick said. “I saw my stuff and I was just blown away.”

Blog Settings Changed - Post

Settings on this Blog have been changed. Last night I started receiving spam messages on the Blog. I had to change the comment settings so you have to be a registered Blog user to post comments or messages to this Blog. Comments are always welcome!

Emerald Ash Borer - Photo

Traverse City, Mich. - 05/17/2005 - Art Fraly, an employee for Trees, Inc., cuts the top limbs of an ash tree on Old Mission Peninsula at the intersections of Peninsula Drive and Bowers Harbor Road. According to Charlene Rucker an Emerald Ash Borer Inspector for the Michigan Department of Agriculture about 50 ash trees that have been infested will be destroyed and removed for the area.

Supreme Court Ruling - Photo

Traverse City, Mich. - 05/16/2005 - Donald Coe, of Black Star Farms, prepares a shipment of wine from the tasting room to a Michigan customer. Coe feels the Supreme Court ruling was good, but worries that Michigan courts will solve the problem by not allowing Michigan wineries to ship to customers directly.

The Watchers - Photo-

Traverse City, Mich. - 05/15/2005 - Hillary Watkins, from left, Megan VanKersen, Ellen Stoye, and Cora Pellerito all juniors at Traverse City Central High School stayed covered up as they watch Traverse City Central play baseball against Traverse City West. The double hitter was split between the two schools.