Mio and area Doings

LooseGoose wrote:It's been gorgeous up here the last few days - took the grandson out for a 4 wheeler cruise this morning. Still amazed he's over 3 now, parents make sure you treasure them while you can the time flies by.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:It's been gorgeous up here the last few days - took the grandson out for a 4 wheeler cruise this morning.   Still amazed he's over 3 now, parents make sure you treasure them while you can the time flies by.

I get what you're saying but I'm perfectly okay with not having any grandkids for a good 10-12 years.

aualum06 wrote:Goose I waved as I drove by the Mio exit today

LooseGoose wrote:

aualum06 wrote:Goose I waved as I drove by the Mio exit today

Going home from getting everything ready for marathon weekend next week?

Turtleneck wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
I get what you're saying but I'm perfectly okay with not having any grandkids for a good 10-12 years.

I will be content never having any.

aualum06 wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Going home from getting everything ready for marathon weekend next week?

I don't run?

LooseGoose wrote:

aualum06 wrote:

I don't run?

Canoeing, AU, canoeing.

aualum06 wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Canoeing, AU, canoeing.

Is the race this week?

LooseGoose wrote:

aualum06 wrote:

Is the race this week?

Yes...festivities during the week the big race on the weekend.

LooseGoose wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:

I will be content never having any.

Someone forgot that this thread is to celebrate all things Mio, not a discussion of male performance issues.

aualum06 wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Yes...festivities during the week the big race on the weekend.

I don't know when we're headed home. At the state park for a few in otsego.

LooseGoose wrote:

aualum06 wrote:
I don't know when we're headed home. At the state park for a few in otsego.

North or South campground?

MIO –– The 51st annual Northern Michigan Relief Sale is expected to bring thousands to Oscoda County Aug. 4-5 in an effort to provide assistance to needy areas around the globe.

The two-day event is overseen by the Mennonite Central Committee, which disperses the funds raised to ongoing relief projects such as assistance to hurricane survivors in Haiti, providing fresh resources to areas without clean drinking water, and to refugees from Syria, Ukraine, Turkey and Iraq, according to relief sale Director Carl Dube.

“One of the things that MCC has done is worked at finding ways that safe water can be provided for a village or town somewhere that otherwise wouldn’t have that,” Dube said. “So many diseases are waterborne that can devastate a community in a short amount of time. In Michigan with all the rain it almost seems like water is a nuisance, but it’s so precious in their areas.”

The event will begin Friday, Aug. 4, with a garage sale, used book sale, baked goods sale and silent auction. There will be food for sale throughout the day including several hundred gallons of soup, according to Dube. Later on in the day there will be a concert performed by two bands, The Gospelmen and the Foresters, who perform southern and traditional gospel music.

A relief sale run will be held Friday with registration beginning at 6 p.m. The run is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Dube said there will be categories for male and female runners with breakdowns of different ages and runners of all ages and ability are welcome. Medals will be awarded to finishers in each category following the race.

“We understand from counting we usually get 1,000-1,500 people to attend Friday throughout the day, and on Saturday (we get) somewhere in the range of 2,000,” he said. “Last year, our total amount raised before expenses was $178,000, which was just amazing. Out of that number we sent $145,000 to MCC. So we sent that away for them to do their relief and development work and that type of thing.”

LIST OF EVENTS --
July 26 –– Organic Gardening

Aug. 2 –– Gardening With a Cop

Aug. 9 –– Miracles in a Single Grain of Wheat

Aug. 23 –– Parents Share Their Wisdom

Aug. 31 –– Make Your Own Herb Butter

MIO –– Organizers at the Oscoda Community Garden will host a series of summer events throughout July and August to promote healthy lifestyles for residents.

The events will be hosted for the first time, and coordinator Deb Nurse and assistant coordinator Kris Elliott are overseeing the project.

“Working with the children we do, we’re focused on getting them to participate in the community and getting them more involved,” Elliott said. “We’ve got some great people in our community and they have their wisdom, and it would be great to share that with them.”

In one event in particular, Gardening With a Cop, participants will get to spend a few hours learning with a police officer.

“Police officers can be scary to children,” Elliott said. “So maybe after working with an officer, the children will feel safer and realize (cops are) good people and they’ll be willing to try new things overall.”

The workshops will also include information and hands-on experience with organic and healthy gardening options, building a worm composter, learning about wheat’s contribution to natural nutrition, making natural bug spray and homemade butter and more.

Floyd Robertson wrote:Gardening with singles would be a good event.

The two-day event is overseen by the Mennonite Central Committee, which disperses the funds raised to ongoing relief projects such as assistance to hurricane survivors in Haiti, providing fresh resources to areas without clean drinking water, and to refugees from Syria, Ukraine, Turkey and Iraq, according to relief sale Director Carl Dube.

“One of the things that MCC has done is worked at finding ways that safe water can be provided for a village or town somewhere that otherwise wouldn’t have that,” Dube said. “So many diseases are waterborne that can devastate a community in a short amount of time. In Michigan with all the rain it almost seems like water is a nuisance, but it’s so precious in their areas.”

The event will begin Friday, Aug. 4, with a garage sale, used book sale, baked goods sale and silent auction. There will be food for sale throughout the day including several hundred gallons of soup, according to Dube. Later on in the day there will be a concert performed by two bands, The Gospelmen and the Foresters, who perform southern and traditional gospel music.

A relief sale run will be held Friday with registration beginning at 6 p.m. The run is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Dube said there will be categories for male and female runners with breakdowns of different ages and runners of all ages and ability are welcome. Medals will be awarded to finishers in each category following the race.

LIST OF EVENTS ––
Friday

Garage Sale, used books, produce, baked goods and crafts sale – all day starting at 9 a.m.

Garage Sale — 7:30 a.m.

Bean Soup Supper – 5 p.m.

Silent Auction — 3-7 p.m.

Children’s Auction — 5:30 p.m.

Evening Concert — 7 p.m.

Relief Sale Run — sign up at 6 p.m., run starts at 7 p.m.

Saturday

All shops open, including quilt Display, Quilters Corner, garage sale, used books, produce, baked goods and crafts sale – all day starting at 7:30 a.m.

General Auction — 9:30 -11 a.m., approximately 12:30 p.m. and again following the 1:30 p.m. quilt auction

Whole Hog Sausage Breakfast with Pure Maple Syrup — 6–10 a.m.

Chicken BBQ Dinner — served starting at noon.

Quilt Auction — First at 11 a.m. and again at 1:30 p.m.

General Auction — 9-11 a.m., approximately 12:30 p.m., and again following the 1:30 p.m. quilt auction

The units are spread across the 147,000-acre Camp Grayling complex, which includes land in Crawford, Kalkaska and Otsego counties. It's the largest National Guard training facility in the country.

Flights are launching from Alpena and Selfridge Air National Guard Base near Detroit for the exercise, and one mock helicopter rescue mission takes place as far away as the western Upper Peninsula.

On Friday, Aug. 4, much of the activity was happening on hilly terrain northeast of Grayling, where ground troops and air units practiced synchronizing mortar fire on the largest joint artillery range east of the Mississippi River.

Turtleneck wrote:A Jimmy Buffett tribute band? The boomers will be lined up for miles trying to get in. Might be a good place to set up a table to sell knock-off Sperry boat shoes.

Senior Dickfist wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:A Jimmy Buffett tribute band? The boomers will be lined up for miles trying to get in. Might be a good place to set up a table to sell knock-off Sperry boat shoes.

TN, I have Sperry boat shoes, but I'm not a boomer. Am I a poser? I don't even own a boat. Never mind, I answered my own question.

Turtleneck wrote:

Senior Dickfist wrote:

TN, I have Sperry boat shoes, but I'm not a boomer. Am I a poser? I don't even own a boat. Never mind, I answered my own question.

Are you a member of the local yacht club?

Senior Dickfist wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:

Are you a member of the local yacht club?

That's a negative. I do own a kayak...

Turtleneck wrote:

Senior Dickfist wrote:

That's a negative. I do own a kayak...

After a careful review of your case, and your recent disclosure of owning some sort of sea going vessel, your application to legitimately wear Sperry boat shoes without being considered a poser has been approved. Congratulations!

Senior Dickfist wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:

After a careful review of your case, and your recent disclosure of owning some sort of sea going vessel, your application to legitimately wear Sperry boat shoes without being considered a poser has been approved. Congratulations!

Thank you, Sir! I feel vindicated!

MIO –– The 11th annual Badges for a Cause 5K race and walk will take place Aug. 12 to raise funds and awareness for cancer research, education and services.

Sheriff Kevin Grace said he expects the same number of attendees this year as compared to previous years.

“Usually we get anywhere from 75-100, and generally all ages from young to old and in-between (participate),” he said. “So it’s more of a fun race than it is a competitive one.”

Grace said he believes the people who attend usually have something in common.

“I think a lot of the people either have somebody that’s involved in some kind of cancer or surviving or have somebody that’s been taken as a result of cancer, so I think that’s kind of a little healing process for some and it’s kind of a feel-good run.”

Grace recommended pre-registering for the event in order to guarantee receiving the correct size of T-shirt, although he said the organizers usually buy extra as well. It costs $20 to register by Aug. 5 or $25 to register the day of.

LooseGoose wrote:Hey Bob? I'll be buying at the Pig Roast.



About the OcRiverfest

LooseGoose wrote:Hey Bob? I'll be buying at the Pig Roast.



About the OcRiverfest

tGreenWay wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:Hey Bob? I'll be buying at the Pig Roast.



About the OcRiverfest

I don't want to be anywhere near a body of water if there's thunder. Its unsafe.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:Hey Bob? I'll be buying at the Pig Roast.



About the OcRiverfest

what do you plan on buying?