Dec 19, 2020
To Chris and Merrie Corbett, owners of the Blue Pelican Inn Restaurant in Central Lake, who on Sunday gave away more than 650 meals. This is the fourth year the couple offered free food. The meal included ham, turkey, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, stuffing, and pumpkin and apple pie. Restaurant front-end manager Trisha Marr said employees volunteered their time and started cooking at 6:30 a.m. Meals were served curbside.
To Craig Bauer and Ray Fisher, among the 22 people in Michigan named 2020 Assistant Football Coaches of the Year by the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association. It is the first time is quite awhile that two area coaches won the honor the same season. Fisher works in Kingsley, Bauer at Traverse City St. Francis. Other recent winners from the area include Stan Pasch (Suttons Bay) in 2019, Kevin Kent (Lake City) in 2018 and Kurt Gillespie (McBain) in 2017.