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July 1, 2010
CALENDAR SALINE
July through August ■ Two Twelve Arts Center and My Favorite Café will host Art at the Café. Students from Two Twelve Arts Center will display their work of watercolor, pastel, pencil drawing, clay wall art and fiber art. My Favorite Café is located at 101 S. Ann Arbor St. in downtown Saline. For more information, call 944-4054.
Friday, July 2 through Friday, July 30 ■ DI Fridays will be offered through Saline Community Education. These workshops are for anyone who wants to have some zany, goofy, creative fun. Each workshop will stretch your imagination, boost your problem-solving skills and improve your ability to work on a team. The class is for kids in kindergarten through eighth grade and will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. at Liberty School Room 4. The fee is $10. For more information, visit www.salineonline. org or call the Saline Community Education Office at 429-8020.
Monday, July 5 ■ “Speed & Agility” will be offered through Saline Community Education. Students will improve their acceleration, transitional movement, total body agility and increase their anaerobic conditioning. The class is for kids ages 8 through 18. It’s held Mondays through Thursdays ending July 29 at the Union Gym. The fee is $60. For more information, visit www.salineonline.org or call the Saline Community Education Office at 429-8020. ■ Saline Summer Kids Camp will be held at the Saline Recreation Center for youth ages 5 through 12. The theme for this week is “World Cup.” Activities include daily swimming, games, crafts, sports and a field trip on Wednesday to Maplewood Lanes for bowling. Register by the week or by the day. For more information, call 429-3502 or e-mail salinekidscamp@cityofsaline.org. ■ “Beginning Guitar” will be offered through Saline Community Education. The course will introduce students to correct hand positions, note reading, tab reading, easy chord progressions, easy strum patterns and beginning improvisation. All students will need to have an acoustic or nylon string guitar at home for practice. The class is for anyone in seventh grade or higher, from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. The fee is $100. For more information, visit www.salineonline.org or call the Saline Community Education Office at 429-8020. ■ “Beginning Piano” will be offered through Saline Community Education. The course will introduce students to note reading, hand positions, chord progressions and a wealth of great Internet music resources. All students will need to have a piano or full-size keyboard at home for practice. The class is for anyone in seventh grade or higher and is held from 9 a.m. to 10:15 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays. The fee is $100. For more information, visit www.salineonline.org or call the Saline Community Education Office at 4298020. ■ “Page to Stage” will be offered through Saline Community Education. The literacy/drama-focused course will encourage reading skills and introduce students to basic drama concepts by taking a popular children’s classic book and adapting it into a mini-drama presentation for the stage. Specific concepts to be touched on include plot, scene structure, pacing, character development and effective use of voice and body. The class will culminate in a final presentation for family and friends. The class is for students in first through fifth grades, and meets from 9 to 11 a.m. Mondays through Fridays at Liberty Auditorium. The fee is $100. For more information, visit www.salineonline.org or call the Saline Community Education Office at 429-8020. ■ An improv workshop will be offered through Saline Community Education. The class will use improv games and exercises to strengthen acting skills, including character development, imagination, ensemble work, voice, body language and facial expression. The class will encourage students to act “in the moment,” to take risks and to make choices as performers. The class is for students in sixth through 12th grades. It will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday at Liberty Auditorium. The fee is $100. For more information, visit www.salineonline.org or call the Saline Community Education Office at 429-8020.
Tuesday, July 6 ■ Safety Town will be sponsored by Saline Community Education in cooperation with the Saline Police Department. Safety Town is a safety education program geared for the pre-kindergarten child. Topics include pedestrian safety, police officers, bicycle safety, riding a school bus, safety at home and play, fire safety, stranger danger, seat belts and water safety. Traffic safety is emphasized daily as children ride through a miniature “city” complete with buildings, crossing guards and street signs. Children who complete Safety Town should be better prepared to care for themselves as a pedestrian or bus rider during their first year of school, as well as becoming more safety conscious at home and play. Safety Town will be held at Liberty School, and the fee is $75. For more information, visit www.salineonline.org or call the Saline Community Education Office at 429-8020. ■ “Beginning Tae Kwon Do –– Karate 4 Kids” will be offered through Saline Community Education. The introductory martial arts class provides self-defense, confidence, fitness, coordination and basic techniques through tae kwon do. If students progress at the class pace and meet requirements, they will have the opportunity to test for the next belt level. Uniforms are included in the price. The class is for kid ages 7 through 10 and will be held from 9 to 9:50 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Liberty School Choir Room. The fee is $150. For more information, visit www.salineonline.org or call the Saline Community Education Office at 429-8020. ■ “Beginning Tae Kwon Do –– Martial Arts” will be held for kids ages 11 through 14. The introductory martial arts class provides self-defense, confidence, fitness, coordination and basic techniques through tae kwon do. If students progress at the class pace and meet requirements, they will have the opportunity to test for the next belt level. Uniforms are included in the price. Classes will be held from 10 to 10:50 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Liberty School Choir Room. The fee is $150. ■ “Beginning Tae Kwon Do –– Tiny Tigers” will be offered through Saline Community Education for kids ages 4 through 6. The introductory martial arts class provides self-defense, confidence, fitness, coordination and basic techniques through tae kwon do. If students progress at the class pace and meet requirements, they will have the opportunity to test for the next belt level. Uniforms are included in the price. Classes will be held from 9 to 9:50 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at Liberty School Room 23. The fee is $150. For more information, visit www.salineonline.org or call the Saline Community Education Office at 429-8020. ■ A summer track clinic will be offered through Saline Community Education. Saline boys’ and girls’ track programs are offering a summer clinic to continue to work on sprinting and field event skills. The specific events covered are sprints, hurdles, high jump and long jump. This clinic will emphasize utilizing correct form through guided practice to improve overall performance. Interested athletes will have an opportunity to participate in area meets to test their new skills. The class is for kids in seventh through 12th grades from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the high school track. The fee is $60. For more information, visit www.salineonline.org or call the Saline Community Education Office at 429-8020.
A family purchases vegetables at the Saline Farmers’ Market, which is run by market manager Nancy Crisp.
SALINE FARMER’S MARKET PROFILE
Market manager stays busy By Randi Shaffer Heritage Newspapers
She doesn’t sit behind a table and push produce at you. Nancy Crisp spends her Saturday mornings at the Saline Farmers’ Market wandering from vendor to vendor, making sure everything runs smoothly, and all market patrons are happy. As the market manager, Crisp has taken it upon herself to put her time and effort into developing the local farmers’ market since its inception in 2000. “My philosophy for the market is that the vendors come first,” she said. “I think our market works so well because it’s like a big family.” The Saline Farmers’ Market
is held from 8 a.m. to noon every Saturday in Parking Lot 4 on South Ann Arbor Street in downtown Saline. The venue has room for 15 to 19 vendors, and is usually full. Crisp says throughout the 10 years she has worked as market manager, she has seen an increase in vendors and customers, though there isn’t an exact way to keep an accurate tab on the number of patrons. “I don’t have any way of keeping count,” Crisp said. The market sees its busiest times during produce season, throughout all of June and toward the end of August and beginning of September. “I think a lot of people like the variety,” Crisp said. “We
have a good assortment of baked goods.” In addition to baked goods, the market also offers other food and produce such as honey, pastries, cheeses, fruits, vegetables, annual and perennial plants, and jams and jellies. Craft vendors also make frequent appearances at the Saline Farmers’ Market, offering baskets, candles, wooden bowls, clocks and aprons, among other items. “It’s real important that we have quality in our market and I think we’ve accomplished that,” Crisp said. Throughout the 10 years the market has been in operation, Crisp said the biggest change she has seen has been the
addition of the new Tuesday night market in the Saline District Library parking lot. Crisp said many of the Tuesday vendors also sell their merchandise at the Saturday market. The idea for a mid-week market came from a potential customer who couldn’t make the Saturday market. After looking for a suitable location for a few years, the idea was put into play. The Saline Farmers’ Market features vendors exclusively from Michigan. Randi Shaffer is an intern at Heritage Newspapers. She can be reached at 429-7380 or via Managing Editor Michelle Rogers at mrogers@heritage.com.
Celtic festival gearing up By Sheila Pursglove Special Writer
Celts and kilts, maypoles, merchants, monsters and much more will be on tap July 16 and 17 when Saline holds its annual Celtic Festival. An associated event gets things rolling July 15, when a Gourmet Celtic Dinner and Whisky Tasting takes place 6:30 p.m. at Mac’s Acadian Seafood Shack, 104 E. Michigan Ave., in Saline. The cost is $50,with a portion of the proceeds going to the festival.
Friday night fun Mill Pond Park on West Bennett Street will be alive with music and dance July 16, when the Pub in the Park gets under way at 5:30 p.m. For $5, revelers will enjoy music, dance, food, and drink, and can mingle with clansmen, medieval citizens and knights. Road Kilt and Beth Patterson will perform in the Red Dragon Tent, where the limerick competition and Mr. Pretty Legs In a Kilt contest will be held. The evening includes participatory social dances for everyone to enjoy, and visitors can watch jingly dances by the Ann Arbor Morris Dancers, and cheer on a Gaelic football game at 7 p.m. Music and dance workshops from 6 to 7:15 p.m. offer an eclectic choice –– Cape Breton or Irish fiddle, tin whistle, button accordion, Celtic mandolin, banjo, bodhran, flute, Irish hard shoe step dance, or traditional Irish songs. The $10 fee includes general admission to Friday evening events. Participants, who must be at least 8 years of age, must bring their own instrument or dance shoes. Preregistration is recommended as space is limited. Walk-ins will be admitted, if space permits. To register for workshops, call 944-2810 or e-mail tradstepper@yahoo.com.
Saturday celebrations
On July 17, Mill Pond Park will be transformed into a Celtic place of enchantment for the day, starting with a Scottish Highland Dance competition at 9 a.m. and rugby tournament, sponsored by the PLEASE SEE CALENDAR/3-C Detroit Rugby Football Club, getting under
way at 10 a.m. At 10 a.m., a parade will wend its way from Liberty School at 7265 N. Ann Arbor Street, down to West Bennett Street and to Mill Pond Park for the opening ceremonies at 11:30 a.m. The earth will shake at noon as knights on fiery steeds thunder toward one another, shattering their lances against armored opponents. “This is a full contact tournament joust, not a staged show –– 2,000-pound horses with men encased in steel armor charging each other, making the earth shake,” says knight “Sir” Steven Schindler. “You’ll enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of a 14th-century joust.” Other historic presentations include Dark Ages Living History Viking Encampment; Ann Arbor Sword Club; Joseph Steele and the Encampment of Steward; Celtic canines; sheep dog demonstrations; and birds of prey, with Big Foot, the Eurasian eagle owl; Bobbin the lanner falcon; Maverick the augur buzzard; Eclipse, one of the fastest animals on the planet; and Gizmo, one of the smallest falcons in North America. The Barony of Cynnabar, the Ann Arbor-based chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism, will provide demonstrations of armored combat, weaving, calligraphy and illumination, food and cooking, blacksmithing, sewing clothes, singing, music and more. Five pipe and drum bands –– the Detroit Caledonian Pipes & Drums, Cabar Feidh Pipes and Drums from Royal Oak, Glen Erin Pipe Band from Lansing, Grand Rapids & District Pipe Band, and Kalamazoo Pipe Band –– will perform their stirring music. Children can enjoy Wee Folks Celtic Adventures from noon to 4 p.m., with songs, music, Rubber Ducky Races, games, arts and crafts, and a Wee Folks Parade at 4 p.m. Live performances kick off at 12:30 p.m., when Bryan Kelso Crow and Michael Hough serve as emcees for Vishten, Brogue, An Dro, Beth Patterson, Fiddlers Restrung, Finvarra’s Wren, Leim Irish Dance, Ealain Ceime Irish Dance School, Renee Ginell, and the Whippersnappers Showcase. A number of crowd participation events
include a haggis throw, ax throw, tug of war contest, Maypole dances and more. Be sure to look for the Enchanted Statue, new to this year’s festival. Another new addition is the Textile Arts Tent, where local artisans will demonstrate ancient techniques of weaving, hand spinning, lace making, and “waulking” the tweeds, a traditional Scottish technique for shrinking and wet-finishing hand-woven woolen cloth, accompanied by Renee Ginell singing Gaelic waulking songs. Mill Pond Millie –– a 26-foot long, 8foot high, 200-pound distant cousin of Scotland’s legendary Loch Ness Monster –– will make her seventh appearance at the festival, rising with loud roars from the depths of Mill Pond. Visitors also will enjoy browsing wares in the Celtic Merchant Village, visiting Celtic animals, clan tents, and much more.
Festival information Tickets at the gate July 17 are $5 for ages 13 to 17, $15 adults, and $10 seniors. Children 12 and younger are admitted for free. After 8 p.m., admittance is $5. Advance tickets are $10 and are available at Brecon Grille, Busch’s, Drowsy Parrot, Mac’s Acadian Seafood Shack, Country Market, Wings, Pizza ’N’ Things, Saline Recreation Center, City Hall and Celtic Festival office in the basement of City Hall. Shuttle service will run Friday night from downtown Saline parking lots, and all day Saturday from downtown lots and school campus lots on Thibeault Drive, North Ann Arbor Road and Woodland Drive. The last shuttle bus leaves Mill Pond Park at 11:30 p.m Limited parking will be available at Mill Pond Park July 16. Limited handicap parking will be available at Houghton School, adjacent to Mill Pond Park July 17. Major sponsors include the city of Saline, Heritage Newspapers, Samuel Adams, Silverfoam, DTE, JAC Productions, O’Connor Hearing Center, American Soy Products, Arts Alliance, 212 Arts Center and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. For more information, call 944-2810 or visit www.salineceltic.org.