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.
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Northern Michigan Entrepreneur: Becky Tranchell of Rose & Fern
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Venture North, a nonprofit based in Traverse City, invests in local businesses in a 10-county region, having provided more than $6 million in funding to entrepreneurs in Northwest Michigan, such as Becky Tranchell, owner of Rose & Fern. Venture North also manages the Regional Resiliency Program, which converts philanthropic donations into grants for small businesses hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“… When care is pressing you down a bit, rest if you must, but don’t you quit,” said Grace Munger, my age-94 great grandmother, at a late ’70s reunion. Wheelchair-bound and failing. She rose from her chair when no one thought she could. Then recited John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem with a punch line she meant; a lesson for family. She had 13 kids; buried two. She trapped and canned muskrat in winter and caught bluegills in summer to feed her family. She had fresh rolls with buttered tops and