Let’s play BINGO with several downtown businesses!
Stop by one of the participating businessed for a bingo card. With each purchase, participating businesses will check off one bingo space, a press release from Olivet Book & Gift explained.
When you have a full line filled just drop off the card at any participating business, including Olivet Book & Gift, Alpena Vintage Company, Myer’s Fashions, The Local Basket Case, Parallel 45 Books & Gifts, Thunder Bay Winery, Alpena Salt Spa, Traveling Ladders, The Fresh Palate, Cabin Creek Coffee, Emery Enterprises, and Rusty Petunias Marketplace.
Each bingo entry will be set aside for a drawing on Dec. 22 for a nice gift basket pulled together by your friendly participating downtown businesses.
Special to The News
ALPENA Over the years, numerous movies and television shows have featured Michigan, either as a filming location or in the script.
Some of the more memorable movies: “Grand Torino,” with Clint Eastwood, filmed in Detroit (2008), “Somewhere in Time,” with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, on Mackinac Island (1980), Oscar-nominated “Anatomy of a Murder,” with James Stewart and George C. Scott in Marquette (1959), and “Dream Girls,” with Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce in Detroit (2006).
Some of the Michigan-themed television shows include crime and police series “Battle Creek” (2015) and “Detroit 1-8-7”. In addition, “The Fitzgeralds” was a 1978 family drama based in Flint. In the 2018 “Charmed” season was staged the fictitious Michigan city of Hiltowne.