Mio and area Doings

goodbar wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Make sure you don't meet them in a field afterward.

I've read extensively about that...crazy shit.

MIO — The Oscoda County Conservation District held its annual Grow Show and Tree Sale at the Oscoda County Fairgrounds May 6.

Attendees were able to shop for items like trees, flowers, ceramics and birdhouses at the event.

Funds from the sale of Conservation District trees and shrubs benefited the services the organization provides.

FAIRVIEW — The Steiner Museum will serve up its annual pancake breakfast and show off some of its new exhibits May 27.

“Good pancakes, good sausage, good eggs, music and the facility is open for viewing,” museum Director Norm Caldwell said.

Steiner board member Jenny Cronkright said in addition to offering great food, the event allows members of the community to get together.

“It’s kind of a get-together,” she said. “A lot of them know each other; most of them come year after year. It’s just grown: we feed about 200.”

Region 3 northeast regional coordinator for the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency, said the holiday was created shortly after the Civil War and was originally called Decoration Day.

He said the day was for families to place flowers on the graves to commemorate those lost in combat.

According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website, the day was declared a national holiday by Congress in 1971.

Mio — Nestled among the state’s young jack pines is a tiny migratory bird so rare, birding enthusiasts each spring are drawn into North Michigan’s forests to welcome it back.

The Kirtland’s Warbler, the rarest of the wood warbler family, nests in large numbers in the Mitten State, providing an abundance of watching sites to spot one of the elusive songbirds.

From mid-May through June, the bird seeks out Michigan’s established plantations of young jack pines for their branches because they grow close to the ground, protecting the birds from predators and bad weather by concealing the warblers’ nests.

On a morning earlier this month, a group of birders from the Wichita (Kansas) Audubon Society traveled on a free tour with a U.S. Forest Service biologist to a plantation east of Mio in the Huron-Manistee National Forest.

“It was worth the trip,” said Rod Wedel, of Wichita, Kansas. “Seeing two male Kirtland’s Warblers was a thrill.”

FAIRVIEW — The Steiner Museum’s annual pancake breakfast drew about 300 attendees May 27, according to Steiner board member Jenny Cronkright.

Cronkright said the event used up 500 ounces of pancake mix, four cans of coffee, 10 gallons of orange juice and thirty pounds of sausage.

The event also featured music from Open Mike Productions performers Jerry Broad, Roadkill Jack, Will Fox and Emerson Gerber.

LooseGoose wrote:Steiner Museum serves up breakfast at annual event

FAIRVIEW — The Steiner Museum’s annual pancake breakfast drew about 300 attendees May 27, according to Steiner board member Jenny Cronkright.

Cronkright said the event used up 500 ounces of pancake mix, four cans of coffee, 10 gallons of orange juice and thirty pounds of sausage.

The event also featured music from Open Mike Productions performers Jerry Broad, Roadkill Jack, Will Fox and Emerson Gerber.

Have heard rumor that BobS goes by RoadKill Jack on the weekends.

LooseGoose wrote:This is a great weekend for the kids.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:This is a great weekend for the kids.

my daughter would really enjoy that.

LooseGoose wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote: my daughter would really enjoy that.

Along with the free pie she'd get here.   You could make shingles with her, not a better way to bond in this world.

LooseGoose wrote:This is a great weekend for the kids.

goodbar wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:This is a great weekend for the kids.

Any concern that there is threshing in both the morning and in the afternoon? seems like perhaps too much threshing for one day.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

goodbar wrote:

Any concern that there is threshing in both the morning and in the afternoon? seems like perhaps too much threshing for one day.

"when one is tired of threshing, one is tired of life".

Maynard E. Clapsaddle
- early settler, Mio

goodbar wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
"when one is tired of threshing, one is tired of life".

Maynard E. Clapsaddle
- early settler, Mio

Maynard E. Clapsaddle
Mio, Mich.
1843 born -1878 perished in an unfortunate threshing accident.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

goodbar wrote:

Maynard E. Clapsaddle
Mio, Mich.
1843 born -1878 perished in an unfortunate threshing accident.

oh, how Maynard loved to thresh..

goodbar wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote: oh, how Maynard loved to thresh..

when he first laid eyes on a steam powered thresher as a wee lad his mammy n pappy knew by his reaction that it was to be. Maynard would most certainly be a thresher, there was no other calling.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

goodbar wrote:

when he first laid eyes on a steam powered thresher as a wee lad his mammy n pappy knew by his reaction that it was to be. Maynard would most certainly be a thresher, there was no other calling.

#JeSuisMaynard

goodbar wrote:oh yes. when gravy is listed in the plural form as an offering, as in: "Gravys"..then THAT is a must attend function.

MIO — For the 14th year the Nor-East’r Music & Art Festival will feature a weekend of music and artistic activities June 9-11.

Headlining this year’s performance is Grand Rapids musician Brian Vander Ark, a solo performer and lead singer of The Verve Pipe. The Verve Pipe, which formed in 1992, scored a Recording Industry Association of America platinum certification for its 1997 sophomore album “Villains.” The band released its newest album, Parachute, in 2017. Vander Ark’s most recent release under his own name was the collaborative album “Simple Truths” with fellow Michigander and actor Jeff Daniels in 2016.

Other headlines include the eclectic jazz/funk/rock Grand Rapids-based Afro Zuma, folk musician May Erlewine and the Jon Stickley Trio, a gypsy jazz/bluegrass/hip-hop group from Asheville, N.C.

The event also features a bonfire, open mic opportunities, local vendors and workshops for artists.

GAYLORD — So much is happening at this year’s air show that two days can’t contain it all.

For the first time in its eight years, Wings over Northern Michigan will lead the Father’s Day weekend show with a midweek evening performance Wednesday, June 14 by Canadian jet and parachute teams, aerobatic performances, drag racing and more.

The latest addition to this year’s roster is a C-17 Globemaster III, a hulking military transport plane 175 feet long and more than five stories tall. Answering the show’s call for military units, the plane will fly in from the U.S. Air Force base in Altus, Okla. and park on the airport’s hardened concrete pad between performances. It’s arriving Friday, June 16 and leaving after the show Sunday, June 18.

“This is one of the largest aircraft in the USAF arsenal and we wanted to make sure we can accommodate it,” said Matt Barresi, airport manager and organizer, while noting the 140-ton aircraft would otherwise sink into asphalt.

“It’s like a flying dinosaur,” he added. “It’s wings will blot out the sun. It’s the plane we put tanks and helicopters in, and it’s designed to get in and out of runways on the front line with needed equipment, and it does so in a hurry.”

ROSCOMMON COUNTY, MI -- More than 14,500 Consumers Energy customers are without power Tuesday morning after storms rolled through the northern half of the state.

More than 17,000 residents lost power at some point in the evening, with northeast Michigan being hit the hardest as wind gusts higher than 40 mph knocked down tree limbs and power lines.

"We had some bad weather overnight," said Brian Wheeler, Consumers Energy senior public information director. "We had high enough wind to do some typical damage for a situation like this. Right now we're working to restore power."

LooseGoose wrote:I don't want to mess up the Rumors thread anymore....but here's last night's storm.
Storms leave 14,500 without power in Northern Michigan

ROSCOMMON COUNTY, MI -- More than 14,500 Consumers Energy customers are without power Tuesday morning after storms rolled through the northern half of the state.

More than 17,000 residents lost power at some point in the evening, with northeast Michigan being hit the hardest as wind gusts higher than 40 mph knocked down tree limbs and power lines.

"We had some bad weather overnight," said Brian Wheeler, Consumers Energy senior public information director. "We had high enough wind to do some typical damage for a situation like this. Right now we're working to restore power."

goodbar wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:I don't want to mess up the Rumors thread anymore....but here's last night's storm.
Storms leave 14,500 without power in Northern Michigan

14,500 northern michigan residents? that's gotta be like....all of them.....right?

MIO — Chad and Seth Patterson of the Acting Up Theater Company Performed “Oh Brother Builder” for kids and parents at the Oscoda County Library June 23.

The event kicked off the library’s Summer Reading Month program, which will feature activities for kids from June 23 to Aug. 11. Events during the month include a Lego building contest and a performance from Kevin Kammeraad & the Cooperfly Puppet Troupe.

LooseGoose wrote:

Brother Builders kick off Summer Reading Program

MIO — Chad and Seth Patterson of the Acting Up Theater Company Performed “Oh Brother Builder” for kids and parents at the Oscoda County Library June 23.

The event kicked off the library’s Summer Reading Month program, which will feature activities for kids from June 23 to Aug. 11. Events during the month include a Lego building contest and a performance from Kevin Kammeraad & the Cooperfly Puppet Troupe.

"It was something he wanted to do. He just wanted to be part of the team and he made it."

He started as an Oscoda County Country Boy, then found his wings.

A member of the high-flying demonstration squadron’s team, he’s set to help them wow crowds up north this weekend.

Dylan Stefani, age 26, is a flight chief for the United States Air Force Thunderbirds and has been in the Air Force for nearly six years.

Before that, though, he was a country kid from Mio with big dreams.

Floyd Robertson wrote:

goodbar wrote:

14,500 northern michigan residents? that's gotta be like....all of them.....right?

Depends on where "up north" begins.

tGreenWay wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:

Depends on where "up north" begins.

People read this site.

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Turtleneck wrote:The view of the Cumins skyline from the Skyline Event Center is amazing.