Mio and area Doings

LooseGoose wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote: what do you plan on buying?

A meal at the pig roast for any Swill member that attends....if we're lucky we'll get the head.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

A meal at the pig roast for any Swill member that attends....if we're lucky we'll get the head.

so a trip to Mio might feature head from a pig..?

sounds like just another night in Saturday in Oscoda Co.

MIO –– The fourth annual Oscoda County Heritage Days will be hosted Aug. 18-19 by the Oscoda fair board with a lumberjack theme and many scheduled events.

Heritage Days will include vendors, a yard sale, silent auctions, food, demonstrations, animals, displays, wagon and hay rides, a comedy show and more, according to coordinator Curt Hiser, who is also a lumberjack competition enthusiast.

“There will be some of the fastest chainsaws in the world there,” he said. “It’s a lot of fun for the people to come watch. It’s good entertainment.”

LooseGoose wrote:The attractions are endless in Mio.......although I was in town on a Sunday today for the 1st time in a year.....Holy shite there were a lot of people.   Almost makes me think of the UP to get further away from people.

Event to remind Oscoda County of its heritage

MIO –– The fourth annual Oscoda County Heritage Days will be hosted Aug. 18-19 by the Oscoda fair board with a lumberjack theme and many scheduled events.

Heritage Days will include vendors, a yard sale, silent auctions, food, demonstrations, animals, displays, wagon and hay rides, a comedy show and more, according to coordinator Curt Hiser, who is also a lumberjack competition enthusiast.

“There will be some of the fastest chainsaws in the world there,” he said. “It’s a lot of fun for the people to come watch. It’s good entertainment.”

*bolded to warn flatlanders against shenanigans.

LIST OF EVENTS ––
Friday, Aug. 18
Horseback rides –– 3-4:30 p.m.
Hiser’s Comedy Show –– 4-4:30 p.m. and again from 6-6:30 p.m.
Sloppy joe dinner –– 4:30 p.m.
Live music and bonfire –– 6:30-10 p.m.
Tractor hay rides –– 7-9 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 19
Homemade cinnamon rolls –– 8-11 a.m.
Cowboy church –– 9 a.m.
Bike rodeo –– 10:30-11 a.m.
Horse drawn wagon rides –– 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Live music –– noon to 9 p.m.
Lumberjack competition –– noon to 4 p.m.
Sloppy joe dinner –– noon
Horseback rides –– 2-3:30 p.m.
Horse pull –– 7-9 p.m.

goodbar wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:The attractions are endless in Mio.......although I was in town on a Sunday today for the 1st time in a year.....Holy shite there were a lot of people.   Almost makes me think of the UP to get further away from people.

Event to remind Oscoda County of its heritage




*bolded to warn flatlanders against shenanigans.

LIST OF EVENTS ––
Friday, Aug. 18
Horseback rides –– 3-4:30 p.m.
Hiser’s Comedy Show –– 4-4:30 p.m. and again from 6-6:30 p.m.
Sloppy joe dinner –– 4:30 p.m.
Live music and bonfire –– 6:30-10 p.m.
Tractor hay rides –– 7-9 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 19
Homemade cinnamon rolls –– 8-11 a.m.
Cowboy church –– 9 a.m.
Bike rodeo –– 10:30-11 a.m.
Horse drawn wagon rides –– 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Live music –– noon to 9 p.m.
Lumberjack competition –– noon to 4 p.m.
Sloppy joe dinner –– noon
Horseback rides –– 2-3:30 p.m.
Horse pull –– 7-9 p.m.

"somebody said somewhere's that you's the fastest chainsaw around."

spits tabbaky on the floor....."I reckon' they got that right."

"Well this here Heritage Day festival ain't big enough for the two of us.....FILL. YER. HANDS. YOU SONOFABITCH!"


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Turtleneck wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:Everybody knows Clare is the Gateway to the North. I seen it on a billboard my hole life.

STFU, GreenWay. Clare is not the Gateway to anything other than Farwell.

Turtleneck wrote:
When is your birthday parade?

MIO –– The Tri-Town Fire Department will host its third open house Saturday, Sept. 23, to get local children and families more familiar with the department as a whole.

Fire Chief Dave Stenzel said the open house usually gets good responses from attendees and will include many activities for the whole family to participate in.

“It’s going to include letting the kids go through the fire trucks, there will be some games, hot dogs and there might be a special visitor coming,” he said. “And I’m going to have a smoke house for the kids to go through.”

The open house will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Stenzel said some of the guys from his fire department will be there as well.

DWags wrote:So goose, I hit up the Michigan historical center this morning and get a private tour behind the scenes of civil and WWI flags. How they're preserving them where they're from, who donated to keep them staluzed etc. but here's the deal. They're currently putting an exhibit together about "the river that changed the world"   Yep, you guessed it.

Opening next month.  The workers let me sneak a few pictures.

LooseGoose wrote:

DWags wrote:So goose, I hit up the Michigan historical center this morning and get a private tour behind the scenes of civil and WWI flags. How they're preserving them where they're from, who donated to keep them staluzed etc. but here's the deal. They're currently putting an exhibit together about "the river that changed the world"   Yep, you guessed it.

Opening next month.  The workers let me sneak a few pictures.

Oh my.....I may have to check that one out.   Did they have a battle flag from the 24th MI Infantry, (Iron Brigade), 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corp, Army of the Potomac?  My GGGGG-Uncle died near here:

DWags wrote:By the way, they became part of the iron brigade but really weren't accepted by them until they proved themselves

LooseGoose wrote:

DWags wrote:By the way, they became part of the iron brigade but really weren't accepted by them until they proved themselves

Yep, they were a reinforcement regiment added to the original Iron Brigade. My Dad was a genealogist back in the 60s and 70s before it was a "thing". As a child/youth I spent many days of our family vacations in cemeteries and Civil War battlefields. I had kin in the 7th MI, the 24th MI and the 1st MI cavalry so Dad was all over them.

A good article on that day @ Gettysburg: “No Man Can Take Those Colors and Live” The Epic Battle Between the 24th Michigan and 26th North Carolina at Gettysburg

I've got pictures at various ages of all my kids at that statue and have walked many sections of that battlefield including Pickett's charge. The one lifelong hobby I've kept up is battlefield visits, I've been to nearly every major engagement of the Civil and Revolutionary Wars. Getting out and walking where they fought will quickly convince you that those guys were made of a steel that doesn't exist anymore.

DWags wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Yep, they were a reinforcement regiment added to the original Iron Brigade. My Dad was a genealogist back in the 60s and 70s before it was a "thing". As a child/youth I spent many days of our family vacations in cemeteries and Civil War battlefields. I had kin in the 7th MI, the 24th MI and the 1st MI cavalry so Dad was all over them.

A good article on that day @ Gettysburg: “No Man Can Take Those Colors and Live” The Epic Battle Between the 24th Michigan and 26th North Carolina at Gettysburg

I've got pictures at various ages of all my kids at that statue and have walked many sections of that battlefield including Pickett's charge. The one lifelong hobby I've kept up is battlefield visits, I've been to nearly every major engagement of the Civil and Revolutionary Wars. Getting out and walking where they fought will quickly convince you that those guys were made of a steel that doesn't exist anymore.

You would have enjoyed this tour of flags. I got to be an archivist today, with white gloves on, pulling cool flags out. 1st calvary's too. It was in maticulous shape. Most Calvary colors are because of being carried by horses vs guys getting shot.

LooseGoose wrote:

DWags wrote:

You would have enjoyed this tour of flags. I got to be an archivist today, with white gloves on, pulling cool flags out. 1st calvary's too. It was in maticulous shape. Most Calvary colors are because of being carried by horses vs guys getting shot.

Never thought of that but it does make sense. That would have been an interesting day. Part of the reason I get upset over the statue issue is how much the tours and learning about wars has meant in my life and I hate to see that erased for the next generation.

DWags wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Never thought of that but it does make sense. That would have been an interesting day. Part of the reason I get upset over the statue issue is how much the tours and learning about wars has meant in my life and I hate to see that erased for the next generation.

I'd love to get both sides of the confederate flag issue to go down and see the collection. One side treats it as racist one side uses it to intimidate. I'd get 95% of both sides don't know what it means to have captured or carried the colors. Most northern states have given the capture colors back to the southern states. Didn't realize Custers brother received two medals of honor for capturing brigades colors. Crazy.

LooseGoose wrote:

DWags wrote:


I'd love to get both sides of the confederate flag issue to go down and see the collection. One side treats it as racist one side uses it to intimidate. I'd get 95% of both sides don't know what it means to have captured or carried the colors. Most northern states have given the capture colors back to the southern states. Didn't realize Custers brother received two medals of honor for capturing brigades colors. Crazy.

Custer was a lot of things, a coward wasn't among them.

CURRAN –– The 13th annual Curran Black Bear Festival will return Saturday, Sept. 30, with a classic car show, parade, arts and crafts show, a cake walk and many other activities for the whole family.

Visitors come from all over to see the Black Bear Capital of Michigan during the festival, which is scheduled to open at 9 a.m. and will run until 4 p.m.

Door prizes, raffles and other prizes will be available, according to festival Chairman Maxine Small, who has coordinated the event for several years.

“We have the car show and we’re going to have Twister Joe and three girls will do a dance,” she said. “We’re going to have the regular raffles, which are for a black bear quilt, a bear carving and a garden bench. We’re going to have a car show, the parade at 1 p.m., a search and rescue canine unit, door prizes, a cake walk and a bake sale.”

Small said while she did not have an estimate of how many attend each year, the weather tends to affect the crowds. She believes this year there will be a larger crowd.

MIO –– Blue Collar Clothing Company opened its doors Friday, Sept. 29, with a ribbon cutting ceremony followed by a day of festivities for family, friends and guests. The owners offered food, drinks, music and more as they invited everyone to come celebrate with them during their first official day in business. Blue Collar Clothing Company is located at 200 Morenci Ave. in Mio.

MIO –– A donation event will take place Friday, Oct. 6, in which anyone can purchase or bring nonperishable items, toiletries and winter hats and gloves to fill Michigan State Police vehicles and help the less fortunate.Community Service Trooper Ashley Simpson has been coordinating the event, which is being hosted for the first time in Oscoda County.

“It’s an annual event here in Alpena,” she said. “It’s too hard to shuttle what we collect here in Alpena down to the other counties, so that’s why I’m trying to host it in the other counties. We do it at Christmastime in Alpena and we collect nonperishable items and toys, so I’m trying to hit the canned good sales and gear up toward Thanksgiving time and help people get food for Thanksgiving.”

The event will take place from 2-6 p.m. at Family Fare in Mio, but donors can bring items before that date as well.

LooseGoose wrote:I need someone to tell me what they're doing here:



Socia and Donnelly named Mio homecoming king and queen

goodbar wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:I need someone to tell me what they're doing here:



Socia and Donnelly named Mio homecoming king and queen

traditional mioian dance.

LooseGoose wrote:GoodBar?   Better get your calendar marked....big weekend coming up in Comins.





The trebuchet is usually good fun.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:GoodBar?   Better get your calendar marked....big weekend coming up in Comins.





The trebuchet is usually good fun.

maybe it's just me, but the thought of running for "His Love" sounds like a bunch of boys being chased by priests.