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letters It’s Obama’s 1984

Several editions ago I concluded a short letter to the editor with an ominous rhetorical flourish: “Welcome to George Orwell’s 1984 and the grand opening of the Federal Department of Truth!” At the time I am sure most of the readers laughed off my comments as right-wing hyperbole. Shame on you for doubting me.

For those of who missed President Obama’s recent comments in Pittsburgh, allow me to list his pertinent Orwellian quotes for you: “We are going to have to rebuild within this wild, wild, west of information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to. There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they just don’t have any basis in anything that’s actually happening in the world.

That is hard to do, but I think it’s going to be necessary, it’s going to be possible,” he added.

Welcome to George Orwell’s 1984. And the grand opening of the Federal department of truthiness.

Steve Redder, Petoskey

Gun Bans Don’t Work

It is said that mass violence only happens in the USA. A lone gunman in a rubber boat, drifted ashore at a popular resort in Tunisia and randomly shot and killed 38 mostly British and Irish tourists. Tunisian gun laws, which are among the most restrictive in the world, didn’t stop this mass slaughter. And in January 2015, two armed men killed 11 and wounded 11 others in an attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. French gun laws didn’t stop these assassins.

Then these stories most Americans never read because they didn’t serve the domestic gunban agenda: Feb. 24, 2015: “9 people dead in a shooting spree t at Czech pub.”

April 7, 2011: “Brazil shooting: 12 children killed in a school rampage. Horrific 2011 rampage where a licensed gun owner, used registered guns to kill 69 people, mostly children.”

June 2, 2010: “Lone gunman in Britain kills 12” April 26, 2009: “18 killed in German school shooting.”

These countries have some of the harshest gun laws on the planet, but they did not stop these murders.

A.J. Fasel, Traverse City

Scripps’ Good Deed

No good deed shall go unpunished! When Dan Scripps was the 101st District State Representative, he introduced legislation to prevent corporations from contaminating (e.g. fracking) or depleting (e.g. Nestle) Michigan’s water table for corporate profit. There are no property lines in the water table, and many of us depend on private wells for abundant, safe, clean water. In the subsequent election, Dan’s opponents ran a negative campaign almost solely on the misrepresentation that Dan’s good deed was a government takeover of your private water well.

Dan is now running for re-election and they’re at it again. The Michigan Republican Party is flooding the district with mailers and robocalls that assert that Dan Scripps “believes the government should take away private water rights -- and then tax water use,” which is patently false. They have virtually nothing positive to posit about their own candidate,

but rely instead on misrepresenting Dan’s good deed. How ironic that the same people who poisoned the children of Flint with lead contaminated water now claim that they are the ones who will protect our water resources.

Please don’t believe them this time.

David Maxson, Lake Ann

Political Definitions

As the time to vote draws near it’s a good time to check into what you stand for. According to Dictionary.com the meanings for liberal and conservative are as follows: Liberal: Favorable to progress or reform as in political or religious affairs.

Conservative: Disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditions and limit change.

Most of us are not just one or the other but rather a combination of the two. Hopefully this will give some insight towards what the results might be when electing a candidate.

Words matter. These definitions do spell out the “code of the road” each candidate will take.

Coleman Cole, Traverse City

Voting Takes A Month?

Hurricane Matthew hit the Florida coast Oct. 6, over three weeks before Election Day. Bob Ross (Oct. 17th issue) posits that perhaps evacuation orders from Governor Scott may have had political motivations to diminish turnout and seems to praise Hillary Clinton’s call for Gov. Scott to extend Florida’s voter registration deadline due to evacuations.

The registration period was diminished by two, perhaps three days. Further, Florida has an election law in place that Governor Scott is constitutionally required to follow. Though at the Federal level the executive branch simply ignores laws that seem inconvenient and bypasses them thru executive orders, Governor Scott is not following this now all-too-common practice.

Florida law does not grant the Governor the right to unilaterally override the law. Somehow the remaining three weeks is deemed insufficient and by not unilaterally extending the period Gov. Scott is suppressing the vote.

This is absurd. Do we really need months to register and a month or more to actually cast a vote?

Jim Trout, Onekama

Clinton Foundation Facts

Does the Clinton Foundation really spend a mere 10 percent (per Mike Pence) or 20 percent (per Reince Priebus) of its money on charity?

Not true. Charity Watch gives it an A rating (the same as it gives the NRA Foundation) and says it spends 88 percent on charitable causes, and 12 percent on overhead. Here is the source of the misunderstanding: The Foundation does give only a small percentage of its money to charitable organizations, but it spends far more money directly running a number of programs.

The Clinton Global Initiative is one example.

CGI (which recently had its final meeting) has over the years obtained billions of dollars of commitments from governments, businesses and charities to undertake initiatives that fight poverty, provide clean drinking water, improve access to health care, etc. Admittedly some projects have fallen through, but there have been major successes that have helped millions of people. At the 2012 CGI meeting, Mitt Romney said that the Initiative has had an

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“astounding impact.”

Another example: the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, now the Clinton Health Access Initiative. This initiative is generally credited with helping to make HIV/AIDS drugs available to millions of people who otherwise would not have gotten them.

The list of examples could go on. So the assertion that the Foundation is just a scam that uses only a fraction of its assets for charitable causes is clearly false. The Clinton Foundation has done lots of good for lots of people worldwide.

Tom Gutowski, Elmwood Twp

America Needs Change

Trump supports our constitution, will appoint judges that will keep our freedoms safe. He supports the partial-birth ban; Hillary voted against it.

Regardless of how you feel about Trump, critical issues are at stake. Trump will increase national security, monitor refugee admissions, endorse our vital military forces while fighting ISIS. Vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence will be an intelligent asset for the country. Hillary wants open borders, increased government regulation, and more demilitarization at a time when we need strong military defenses.

Trump supports the middle class, African Americans, and will control our sickening national debt. He will rebuild our economy, bring back jobs for Americans, and help the coal industry. Do you want four more years of reckless spending and Clinton cover-up lies? Do you want your guns taken away and the right to hunt, or protect yourself gone? Our religious freedoms have been attacked severely by Obama.

Hillary has said, “deep-seated religious beliefs have to be changed.” California Senate Bill 1146 would essentially outlaw religious college schools.

Hillary plans to continue with such changes.

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Look for the other choice and vote wisely!

Mildred Komrska, Interlochen

My Process For No

I will be voting “no” on Prop 3 because I am supportive of the process that is in place to review and approve developments. I was on the Traverse City Planning Commission in the 1990s and gained an appreciation for all of the work that goes into a review. The staff reviews the project and makes a recommendation.

The developer then makes a presentation, and fellow commissioners and the public can ask questions and make comments. By the end of the process, I knew how to vote for a project, up or down. This process then repeats itself at the City Commission.

I followed the recent controversy over the proposed nine story building downtown. I was generally supportive of the project. However, I would not have been prepared to vote on the project, because I simply was not educated on all the myriad of issues. If some city residents want to change our zoning (lower allowable building heights, change SLUP conditions, etc.) there is a way to do that. A public vote, triggered by just one issue (building height), seems cumbersome, reactive, and ineffective. I will be voting “no.”

Bob Otwell, Traverse City

Regarding Your Postcard

If you received a “Vote No” postcard from StandUp TC, don’t believe their lies. Prop 3 is not illegal. It won’t cost city taxpayers thousands

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of dollars in legal bills or special elections.

Prop 3 is about protecting our downtown -not Munson, NMC or the Commons -- from a future of ugly skyscrapers that will diminish the very character of our downtown. For the facts, visit www.YesTraverseCityProp3.com.

Deni Scrudato, Traverse City

Vote Yes

It has been suggested that a recall or re-election of current city staff and Traverse City Commission would work better than Prop 3. I disagree. A recall campaign is the most divisive, costly type of election possible. Prop 3, when passed, will allow all city residents an opportunity to vote on any proposed development over 60 feet tall at no cost to the taxpayer. And it will happen before any such project takes place. The time is now.

Vote “yes” on Prop 3!

Terry Riley, Traverse City

Yes Vote Explained

A “yes” vote on Prop 3 will give Traverse City the right to vote on developments over 60 feet high. It doesn’t require votes on every future building, as incorrectly stated by a previous letter writer. If referendums are held during general elections, taxpayers pay nothing.

Traverse City has opposed other ill-conceived projects in the past, including a seven-story shopping mall where the farmer’s market is now held. These people didn’t oppose progress.

Rather, they refused to squander TC’s unique character for a developer’s multi-million dollar dream. There is a reason this city consistently ranks so high in polls across the nation.

TC needs more affordable housing, but the proposed “big box” towers on Front and Pine are projected to create a 20-year glut of luxury condos. It’s astronomically expensive, carrying a taxpayer subsidy estimated at $8 to $22 million.

Any of these affordable units can be rented to anyone at any age, whether they work or not. I have yet to hear the affordable rental price.

A “yes” vote on Prop 3 means you will have the right to vote on projects like this one, which will dwarf its surroundings; squeeze up against the Boardman River; is the antithesis of “harmonious” (as required by zoning law), create heavy traffic back-ups, and block the windows and airflow of the elderly living next door.

Judge Rodgers asked the city commission to fairly analyze the true impact of this project on Traverse City citizens and explain the results.

So far the commission has refused.

Please vote “yes.”

Anne Stanton, Traverse City

Beware Trump

When the country you love have have served for 33 years is threatened, you have an obligation and a duty to speak out. Now is the time for all Americans to speak out against a possible Donald Trump presidency. During the past year Trump has been exposed as a pathological liar, a demagogue and a person who is totally unfit to assume the presidency of our already great country.

Trump represents a grave threat to our hardearned democracy and our democratic ideals.

His unconstitutional and racist policies will take us down a long, dark road. Many high-level Republicans are horrified at the prospect of a Trump presidency and are withholding support.

To any prospective Trump voter, I suggest before voting you read They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45. Democracy is fragile. In the upcoming election, voters should

heed the warning of George Santayana: “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

John Peterson, Empire

Picture Worth 1,000 Words

Nobody disagrees with the need for affordable housing or that a certain level of density is dollar smart for TC. The issue is the proposed solution. If you haven’t already seen the architect’s rendition for the site, please Google “Pine Street Development Traverse City.”

I literally gasped when I saw it. Imagine you are sitting at J &S enjoying breakfast. The outside view is this mega story structure hugging the sidewalk. It makes no sense to me in terms of aesthetics, traffic, and most importantly a viable solution that will forward TC’s character. Folks flock to our city to get away from tall city living.

Why would we want to do this to ourselves?

I know we can do better than this to provide affordable workforce housing, adhere to TC’s character, and maybe even become a model for other cities facing similar challenges.

Let’s take a deep breath, move away from the emotionscharging each side and rejoin as a community to sit down and hammer out the details? This was one thing I heard from Joe Minicozzi’s report, and it makes smart sense to me. It is clear we all want what is best for TC, and we can do it better if we do it together.

I am really trying to extend across boting lines. Even when I say “yes,” for me, it really is about the opportunity to have an opportunity to weigh-in on the future development of TC. As a long-term resident, this is really about making our city a showpiece of architectural innovation and urban living instead of (yawn)…just another high-rise brick building.

Jane Fochtman, Traverse City

Living Wage, Not Tall Buildings

Our community deserves better than the StandUp TC “vote no” arguments. They are not truthful. Their yard signs say: “More Housing. Less Red Tape. Vote like you want your kids to live here.”

The truth: More housing, but for whom? At what price? The concept of “affordable housing” is being thrown around by the DDA and business owners. What’s actually affordable? If businesses pay $11 an hour, that’s about $1600/net per month – if Walmart would allow full-time work.

The guideline is to pay around 30 percent on housing, so that’s $480 monthly rent. If business pays $15 an hour, that’s about $2000/net monthly; 30 percent would be $600 rent.

We can’t build anything but subsidized housing to rent that cheaply -- or sell these people “starter” homes either. The problem is wages workers can’t live on. The answer is a living wage.

Where are the jobs in Grand Traverse County that would “allow our kids to live here?” Where could they work and make a middle-class living, e.g. $30,000-$45,000+ a year? At Red Ginger?

Not at Meijer. At The Franklin? Not at Fustini’s.

Proposition 3 will cost taxpayers nothing extra. Developers can easily get proposals for construction over 60 feet ONLY on city ballots at regular election time. No cost; no problem.

Prop 3 will foster measured planning and citizen involvement in our neighborhoods. Involvement is never a waste of time; it’s democracy in action.

Prop 3 will protect the integrity of TC’s character and protect residents from the consequences of unhindered, speculative, over-development of building taller than 60 feet. Vote “yes.”

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Cynthia Brzak, Traverse City

TIME TO STEP-UP AND DO THE RIGHT THING opinion

By scott hardy Let’s put this in perspective. We all heard our Republican presidential candidate claim he was going to build a wall along the Mexican border with a big door, and that Mexico was going to pay for it. That should have been a non-starter for a presidential campaign but here he is, still saying it, and still in the running.

Shift that locally to our Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District (TBAISD), which wants to build and maintain a “rainy day fund” at the expense of local school districts and taxpayers. TBAISD is statutorily charged with directly or indirectly supplying services and transportation to our area’s special education students and collects local, state, and federal taxes to do so. When the annual dust settles, however, only $3.5 million of the $45 million collected annually from taxpayers is making its way through the ISD into local special education classrooms.

These special ed students rightly have mandated services that must be provided to them by each of the ISD’s member districts.

It is their moral and ethical responsibility as educators and administrators to teach all kids based on their needs. In order to do that, the state has designated the TBAISD as the fiduciary for either delivering those services or passing on the monies to let local districts deliver them themselves; those are not ISD funds to hoard or divert. Even local district elected school boards are not allowed to tell the ISD to “keep the money and we’ll pay for the services ourselves.”

It’s all in the numbers (Fiscal 2014-2015 from TBAISD): -$585,168 Kalkaska, -$599,000 Benzie, -$448,238 Kingsley, -$247,698 Suttons Bay, -$264,756 Mancelona, -$315,781 Elk Rapids, and -$3,008,034 for Traverse City Area Public Schools. These deficits are for special education funding in the budgets of seven of the 16 districts that TBAISD serves. $5,468,675 of special education fund deficits in these seven districts alone. Every district in the ISD is running their special education programs at a fund deficit with those monies subsuming in excess of 2.5 percent of their general fund expenditures. The other relevant numbers, $34 million and 54 percent, represent the total cash reserves of the TBAISD and the amount of stockpiled cash the ISD has in comparison to their annual fund expenditures. All of this is being done with taxpayer monies dedicated to providing special education services to our most vulnerable students. It is being horded while their member school districts fight to stave off state control (should their general fund reserves reach five percent).

The ISD sits on a 54.5 percent fund balance while more than half of their member districts have fund reserves of 10.6 percent or less. As mentioned, when only $3.5 million of the $45 million (annually) from federal, state, and local taxpayers is making its’ way past the ISD into local special education classrooms, ISD member school boards and taxpayers ought to be asking hard questions of the TBAISD board members.

Take Kalkaska Public Schools for instance: A major tax mistake creates a $900,000 hole in their budget. They now consider cutting staff, relocating students, closing an alternative high school, and curtailing new initiatives with an uncertain financial future; but do they question the nearly $600,000 owed to them by the ISD? No. The same silence is coming from many member districts in the ISD. This situation has been in place for at least ten years, or for almost one quarter of the time the current ISD board president has been on the board, and the entire time that the current superintendent has been in charge.

In fact, for a board that has never been publicly elected, many past board members served for over 20 years, the current chair now approaching an incredible 40 years. I believe they all care deeply about the students and about providing quality services to those children with special needs. What isn’t clear is if they share the same urgency about their responsibility to fund those very services.

So where do we go from here? For one thing, demand change.

1. Have ISD board members publicly elected.

No more “insider trading” as the ISD picks and chooses their own board candidates.

(TBAISD decision) 2. Institute term limits on the ISD board positions and shorten the terms from 6 to 4 years. (State decision) 3. Implement a ceiling on fund balances with specific, realistic targets for capital and operational expenses. Consider 10 percent for the operational fund balance and $10 million for future capital projects (which they have already budgeted for) (TBAISD decision) 4. Stop the spending of $30,000 on a marketing specialist to “sell” this fund balance hording to the districts taxpayers.

(TBAISD decision) 5. And most importantly, immediately disburse the special education funds to TBAISD member districts based on their current special education fund deficits. Make them whole by accepting responsibility to provide and pay for those services. (TBAISD decision) This is critically important for our region..

The kids who can least afford it are caught in the ever-expanding net of “rainy day financing” and deserve our attention. We need to pull ourselves away from presidential politics and focus on our local future, educating all the children of this area.

Scott Hardy is a current Traverse City Area Public Schools board member as well as a member of the Grand Traverse County Planning Commission. He is a lifelong Traverse City resident and a past member of the Traverse City Commission, Downtown Development Authority, and City Planning Commission.

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1 Local Canine Goes Hollywood Ever dreamed of snagging 15 minutes of fame for your Fido? Pet owners Mike and Courtney Myers of Interlochen have done exactly that after capturing a quick video of their harlequin American great dane, Kyle, trying to fit his oversized frame into the bed of their pint-sized Jack Russell terrier, Andy.

“Kyle already has his own massive bed, but for whatever reason, he decided to try and fit into Andy’s,” Mike Myers said.

The couple posted the cute clip on Facebook, and a week later California licensing company Jukin Media, picked it up and consequently snagged several promotional deals for the photogenic dog.

“They’ve been selling the video of Kyle to TV shows and commercials,” Myers said. “It’s already been on World’s Funniest, the TV show hosted by Terry Crews, and a bunch of commercials. They market it as ‘So you need more space?’ and that sort of thing. I’ve made over $2,000 so far!”

As expected, Kyle has been rewarded accordingly for his newfound celebrity: He’s got a brand new Tempur-Pedic dog bed and a “large bin of treats.”

Check out the doggone funny video on YouTube: tinyurl.com/ozt6u5m.

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The Castle Farms Grand Bridal Expo takes place on Sunday, October 30 from 10am-3pm at Castle Farms, Charlevoix.

Featuring over 50 wedding experts, there will also be two workshops & a Grand Finale Fashion Show at 3pm.

Admission: $5 advance, $6 door. castlefarms.com

FOUR FARMS FOREVER PRESERVED The Leelanau Conservancy is celebrating putting four farms out of reach of development in one year.

The 210-acre Lawton Farm just north of Suttons Bay is the latest to have been perpetually preserved through the purchase of conservation easements.

Tom and Louise Lawton left Birmingham in the 1970s and worked the farm’s cherry and apple orchards for three decades. They’ve since passed away, but their four children saw to it that the beloved land would remain a farm.

That makes four family farms placed into conservancy in the last year, totaling 670 acres, said Sam Plotkin, farm programs manager. The Lawton Farm also includes 75 acres of woodlands.

While the conservation easement does not open the land up to the public, and does not ensure the land remains actively farmed, it does protect it from future development.

A new creation from Cherry Republic aims to pay homage to a classic French tradition.

The company’s new Balaton Nouveau is a cherry Burgundy made in the spirit of Beaujolais Nouveau Day, a French celebration in the Beaujolais region marking the season’s first wine. In France, the red Burgundy is released each year at 12:01am the third Thursday of November. It is meant to be consumed immediately, rather than aged. “Following this tradition of our wine-loving neighbors across the Atlantic,” according to owner Bob Sutherland, Cherry Republic is producing a northern Michigan Nouveau ”made from Balaton cherries (instead of the traditional grapes), which are pressed immediately after harvest and fermented slowly with a Beaujolais-style yeast.”

The resulting Balaton Nouveau “is a clean-tasting, fresh, fruity red,” said Sutherland. Cherry Republic released the wine at 12:01am on October 14. As in France, supplies of the product are limited, with only 260 cases available. Pick up a bottle for $17 at Cherry Republic stores in Traverse City, Charlevoix, Glen Arbor, Frankenmuth or Ann Arbor, or online at www.cherryrepublic.com.

- Beth Milligan

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BALLOT QUESTIONS TO QUESTION spectator by stephen tuttle Candidates and proposals and millages, oh my.

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If you live in Traverse City, or outside the city but in Grand Traverse County, you will be making choices beyond candidates on November 8. There are three ballot proposals for the voters inside the city limits and an additional two millage questions for all county residents.

All three ballot proposals in Traverse City were birthed by the plans to erect a ninestory building on Front Street. Opponents circulated petitions, many of which were invalidated by an odd technicality requiring an affidavit be attached to each petition attesting to the number of signatures.

Proposal 1 will change that and, instead, require the city clerk to provide a simple receipt for the number of signatures submitted. It’s common sense housekeeping and removes an obstacle for those trying to place an initiative on the ballot.

Proposal 2 will eliminate the illegal requirement that petition circulators be adult residents of Traverse City. It contravenes existing state law which says petition circulators must be 18 years of age and American citizens. As a result, the current rule in Traverse City is not, will not, and cannot be enforced.

Proposal 2 simply makes Traverse City’s rules conform to state law.

Changing the city charter requires voters to affirm their desire to make the change so, to ban tall buildings, the proposal requires a “yes� vote. A “no� vote leaves the charter as is and would allow taller buildings.

We arrived at this point when those opposing tall buildings, bedeviled by the petition signature rules, went to court. Circuit Court Judge Phillip Rodgers determined the city had not done its due diligence regarding infrastructure and subsidies before it had approved the plans.

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In the meantime, valid signatures were gathered and submitted, and the issue is now on the ballot as a charter amendment because state law prohibits simple zoning changes by referendum.

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Unfortunately, nothing about Grand Traverse County government is innocuous these days. The millage we recently passed for the Commission on Aging (COA) is a case in point. Presumably, most voters believed the money would go to the existing Commission on Aging to continue and expand its work.

The County Board of Supervisors, which actually controls the COA, is not so sure.

County Attorney Bob Cooney says the money raised by the millage must be used to provide services to those 60 and older but, beyond that, the county board can make decisions.

All of which complicates the next millage issues. The money for roads seems safe enough. It’s never a good idea for politicians to take money away from roads...

Proposal 3 is not simple housekeeping. It would change the city charter to prohibit any building taller than 60 feet go up without a public vote.

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County residents also will confront a pair of seemingly innocuous millage requests. The first would extend an already existing millage for roads and their maintenance; the second, a new millage, would fund the Department of Veteran Affairs.

Just remember, if you don’t want tall buildings, you’ll need to vote “yes�; if you do want them, a “no� vote is required.

It’s not clear the board will change anything but members are hinting at a more medical focus for COA services and other structural changes.

All of which complicates the next millage issues. The money for roads seems safe enough. It’s never a good idea for politicians to take money away from roads in this part of the state. The money for veterans’ services is less clear. And this isn’t tons of extra money for veterans; it simply will replace money coming from the county’s general fund, not add to it.

In other words, it’s a millage, the primary purpose of which is to relieve the county budget of the expense. The Department of Veteran affairs won’t be autonomous, but rather, another subset of the county board. As the board continues to examine departmental structures and budgets, there is no way to predict any outcome for any department.

Here’s an interesting aside: Millage money that’s dedicated to a specific purpose, like roads or seniors or the library, has to be shared with others — quite a few others, in fact.

If Grand Traverse County voters pass the road and veterans millages, by law, a share of that money will go to the downtown development authorities of Traverse City, Interlochen, Kingsley, and the Village of Fife Lake; the Grand Traverse County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority; and the Grand Traverse County Land Bank Authority. They don’t take big chunks, but when a millage claims to raise $500,000 for some purpose, it’s really $500,000 less the money being shared with half a dozen other organizations.

At the very least, the ballot questions will take our minds off the dreadful candidate contests for a few blissful, if brief, moments.

We appreciate that.

Crime & Rescue FINGERPRINT BETRAYS WOMAN A mobile fingerprint scanner landed a woman in the Grand Traverse County jail.

State police stopped a car for speeding in Kalkaska County Oct. 18 and cited the driver for open intoxicants. A female passenger gave a name but no record of that name was found. When a trooper asked about a driver’s license found in a purse, the woman refused to talk.

The trooper used a mobile fingerprint scanner to determine the woman’s identity, discovered she was wanted on a warrant in Grand Traverse County, and took her to jail.

DEPUTY INJURED IN CRASH A Grand Traverse Sheriff’s deputy was injured in a car crash in Garfield Township.

The deputy was headed east on Hammond Road at the end of a shift when a 25-year-old Traverse City man pulled a Jeep Cherokee into the path of the patrol car at Hughes Drive. Undersheriff Nate Alger said state police investigators determined the deputy had the right of way.

The deputy broke a wrist in the crash; the other driver was not injured. The crash happened at 4pm Oct. 14.

CRASH CLAIMS DOWNSTATE MAN A 49-year-old man was killed after his car drifted left into the opposing lane of US 31 north of Petoskey, crashing head-on into an oncoming car.

Unionville resident Derrick Rasch died of injuries suffered in the crash. He was driving a 2015 Chevrolet Cruze. The other driver, an 18-yearold Pellston resident who was driving a 2008 Volvo, was taken to McLaren Northern Michigan for treatment.

The crash occurred near Shaw Road Oct. 18 at 10:30am, Emmet County Sheriff Pete Wallin said.

NO ARRESTS IN SAIL INN RAID A months-long investigation led to a raid at the Sail Inn in Traverse City.

Traverse Narcotics Team officers along with Traverse City Police, Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies and the Michigan Liquor Control Commission executed a search warrant at the troubled bar on the evening of Oct. 15.

The search warrant was based on recent liquor violations and drug activity, according to a TNT press release. Police said there have been 65 calls to the bar in the last year, some of them for drug or alcohol violations.

No drugs were found in the raid and all of the patrons were checked for warrants and then released. No arrests were made.

A man identified as the 44-year-old bar owner was arrested by Traverse City Police at the bar in March after his girlfriend said he assaulted her after closing time. Joseph Williams was convicted of misdemeanor resisting and obstructing a police officer on Oct. 10.

INFO SOUGHT IN CITGO BREAK-INS Someone broke windows to get into the Kalkaska Citgo gas station after hours on Sept. 8 and Oct. 3.

Thieves stole cigarettes in the first burglary and cigarettes and liquor the second time, Sheriff Pat Whiteford said.

Extra patrols of village, county and state police have been added to watch the area, but investigators are looking for a break in the case.

Anyone who knows anything should call Kalkaska central dispatch at (231) 258-3350.

MAN KILLED BY TREE The Emmet County medical examiner determined the death of a 62-year-old man who was killed while cutting trees

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with two friends was an accident.

Myron Gray died some time before 11:12am Oct. 15 in the woods off of Evergreen Trail in Bear Creek Township, Undersheriff Timothy Roth said.

Gray was struck by part of a tree that he was cutting and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

POLICE: ROBBERY A HOAX Cadillac Police investigated after someone called 911 to report that a woman had been robbed.

A 36-year-old Cadillac woman told officers she had been walking on S. Mitchell Street near Stimson Street when a man approached her and demanded money. She said the man grabbed money out of her purse and ran away.

After details in the story failed to add up, the woman admitted to officers that she’d made up the story in order to cover for some money she lost, Chief Todd Golnick said. Police were called at 8:16am Oct. 18.

HOLD UP MAN WANTED A Traverse City gas station clerk told police at first he thought the man with the knife was joking. Then he realized the man was serious so he turned over between $150 and $200 in cash.

The robbery was reported at 2:09am Oct. 17 at the Shell Gas Station on South Airport Road near Lafranier Road. The clerk said the knife-wielding man demanded: “Give me all the money.” The employee was not physically injured.

The suspect is six feet tall with a thin build and weighs approximately 170 pounds. He wore a dark coat or sweatshirt, dark pants and dark shoes. He wore a bandana over his face, a burgundy winter hat and a carried a blue Meijer grocery bag.

Anyone who can identify the suspect should call central dispatch at (231) 922-4550 or the Silent Observer at (231) 922-8477.

In each case, the culprits went out on rainy nights and only entered unlocked vehicles.

Anyone with information should call central dispatch at (231) 258-3350.

MAN CRASHED INTO ROW OF TREES A Cheboygan man suffered serious injuries when he lost control of his 2001 Ford Mustang on a straightaway and crashed into a row of trees.

Bryan Kwiatkowski, 30, was taken to McLaren Northern Michigan in Petoskey for treatment.

State police said Kwiatkowski was travelling by himself on Levering Road Oct. 16 at 3:05pm when he crashed.

When Barron went downstairs to where his daughter was staying shortly before bed, David Peretiatko emerged from a bathroom and pointed a gun at his face. Barron shot and killed him, according to Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies, who were called at 10:34pm.

Barron went upstairs and when he looked downstairs he saw his daughter pointing a gun at him. He shot and injured her. She was taken to Munson Medical Center and later transferred to a downstate hospital.

Ashley Peretiatko admitted that she and her husband planned to kidnap their children, according to charges she faces, which include kidnapping and assault with a dangerous weapon.

MAN KILLED IN SELF DEFENSE A grandfather shot and killed his estranged son-in-law after the man drove across the country in a stolen car and appeared unexpectedly in the man’s Long Lake Township home.

James Barron shot and killed 30-yearold David Peretiatko. Barron had recently allowed his estranged daughter, 23-yearold Ashley Peretiatko, stay at his home because she was homeless. Barron and his wife have legal custody of the Peretiatkos’ two young children.

On Oct. 14, Barron learned that David Peretiatko was wanted in connection with a stabbing death in Las Vegas and that he could be headed back to Michigan in a car he’d stolen from the man he’d killed.

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STRING OF THEFTS UNDER PROBED A bunch of unlocked cars were struck by thieves and one that had keys inside, a silver 2012 Ford Escape, was stolen.

Kalkaska County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating the Oct. 1 thefts in the Manistee Lake area of Coldsprings Township. The same people could be responsible for a string of thefts under investigation by state police near the Twin Birch Golf Club on Sept. 26.

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a local pastor and a local atheist debate Faith vs. Action – Does One Minimize the Other?

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Senior Pastor at Presbyterian Church of Traverse City “Why won’t they mention his faith?,” I wondered, reading over a dozen stories about the “Santa of Syria,” Rami Adham.

The stories tell of his extraordinary humanitarian work with the people of Syria, bringing toys and medicine to the children of Aleppo. They tell of the danger he faces from government and rebel forces, Russian airstrikes, as well as ISIL and Shia militias. But the stories don’t mention his faith.

About six times every year since the civil war began, Adham has taken food, medicine, and drinking water across the border. Then one day his daughter asked him to take some of her toys to the children of Aleppo. Having seen the joy on the children’s faces, he has been taking toys, about 1,000 dolls and teddy bears ever since. Why? All the stories speak of Adham’s deep and abiding sense of duty for the people of his home-

GARY’S RESPONSE

Bill, the stories don’t mention his faith because it is irrelevant. You state that “Adham must be a man of faith.” I suspect he is a man who has faith that the joy he is bringing to others will continue to reward him with the incredible satisfaction that comes from simply helping others. Yes, beliefs lead to acts and acts reflect true beliefs. There is no religion or otherworldly god required.

To assume that some religious affiliation is a prerequisite to human generosity and kindness

Gary helps businesses with their Internet marketing.

He was raised a Catholic. town. But is that it? Fifty hours, through ten countries, six times a year into the most dangerous city in the world for the love of his hometown? Adham must be a man of faith.

But what faith? His names offer little insight.

Rami and Adham are popular Arabic names with Hebrew derivations “Abraham” and “Adam.” His countries of origin and residence are not much help. He could be Christian, Muslim, Jew, or Secular Humanist. Does it even matter?

Some would say no. As long as he loves, what difference does it make?

But beliefs lead to acts. Acts reflect true beliefs.

The question isn’t “what faith?” The question is “what is that faith teaching?” Some faiths teach people to hate. Adham’s taught him to love. It matters!

is quite naïve, in my opinion. For a growing number of us, there is no connection whatsoever. We believe in the concept of good without god. They are not mutually exclusive terms!

I have a lot more respect for those who help others simply because they feel compelled to do so by natural law than for those who do so hoping to curry favor with some deity. If more of those who robotically engage in religious practices would emulate actions such as Adahm’s, imagine how much goodwill could occur.

One of my many issues with organized religions today is how little they resemble what we perceive to be their origins. Although Christianity is supposedly based upon the life of Jesus, that belief system today is a far cry from the customs and practices of the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

Times change and if organized religion expects to survive, it had better learn to adapt.

My position is that much of current Christianity in America and the rest of the world spends too much energy on faith in biblical teachings and conformity to ancient cultural beliefs and too little working on finding common ground on pressing social issues like abortion, LGBT concerns, racial equality, income disparity, the environment, etc.

BILL’S RESPONSE

Gary, your experience does not a Christian make! Christianity focuses on Christ – how he treated people, the wisdom of his teachings, the sacrifices he made – not the food he ate or the social customs of his time. We live in the 21st century, not the 1st. Christians embrace and create scientific discovery and social progress.

Christians look much like everyone else. Our

Gary and Bill agree that, whatever their beliefs, they are dead without works that benefit the common good.

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Maybe it’s time to set aside the Bible and begin to rely upon current norms and behaviors to govern our lives. People who demean women, gays, and other races – a current presidential candidate immediately comes to mind – and use antiquated religious texts as justifications are every bit as complicit as any other racist, sexist, or homophobe.

Faith is a cornerstone of every theistic religion.

In simplistic terms, it is the unbridled belief that what we have been taught is true irrespective of facts or evidence. Religious faith goes even further; it stipulates that followers who refuse to accept the untenable positions laid out thousands of years ago, with little application to today’s norms and customs, face eternal suffering after they die. I suggest we all have more faith in proven ways to improve our lives and if it comes at the expense of religious dogma, so be it.

connection with Christ is our transformation by the Spirit and Word of the Living God to be more like Christ. As Christ welcomed outcasts and loved the unlovable… as Christ befriended the lonely and brought hope to the hopeless…Christians around the world are still doing these things and more, seeking to love as Christ loves. Our beliefs lead us to this life.

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By Kristi Kates In one scenario, the clock strikes midnight on Halloween, summoning a host of dry, rattling skeletons to leave their graves and dance the night away, accompanied

by Death playing his fiddle, until a rooster crows at dawn.

In the other scenario, dreadful news is announced when it’s discovered that a symphony composer has been killed, and everyone has an alibi — including many of the suspects … namely, the orchestra’s instruments.

Both of these storylines will play out on October 29 as the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra (GLCO) celebrates Halloween with a special concert featuring the 1800s symphonic poem Danse Macabre (Dance of Death) by Camille Saint-Saëns, and The Composer is Dead, a contemporary music performance by composer Nathaniel Stookey, which is accompanied by a story from Lemony Snicket (the pen name of author Daniel Handler, who wrote A Series of Unfortunate Events).

GHOSTLY GUESTS The GLCO has been active since 2001, varying in the size of its performance ensembles depending on the music it performs.

“We share members with the Traverse City Orchestra, and we also have people traveling here to perform from elsewhere in west Michigan, as well as from Gaylord and the U.P.,” explained Anne McDevitt, the GLCO’s executive director.

In addition to its usual ongoing schedule of orchestral performances, the GLCO presents themed shows for holidays, including this Halloween show and its Christmas concert, Messiah Plus One, which will take place December 15 and 16.

But for this month, it’s all about everything eerie to welcome in All Hallows’ Eve, complete with a costume concert and some very special guests.

“We’re doing something a little different for the GLCO Halloween show,” McDevitt said. “We have a fundraiser each year at which we auction off the opportunity to con-

duct the orchestra, and Roger Tallman, who won it this year, passed the privilege to his son, Spencer, who is in 10th grade at Petoskey High School.”

EERIE ENDEAVORS Spencer Tallman has been working with the GLCO’s conductor and will follow in the footsteps of both his father and his grandfather, Harold, who both had musical careers.

Tallman will conduct the Danse Macabre portion of the program.

Also performing will be Isaac Wittenberg, who will play the Piano Concerto in G Minor, Opus 25, by Felix Mendelssohn. Wittenberg, who is homeschooled, is the winner of the Charles F. Davis Concerto Competition, a competition the GLCO holds each spring for performers 18 and under.

Wittenberg also participates in the Petoskey High School Steel Drum Band and marching band, and he plans to study music in college.

“We’re thrilled to have Isaac performing. He actually takes piano lessons from one of our orchestra members,” McDevitt said. “It’s so cool that we’ve got youth performing and being involved with this concert event.”

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UNNERVING NARRATIVE The Composer is Dead, which simultaneously teaches the audience about the different instruments of the orchestra while presenting the story, will feature local actor and business owner Gary Albert as the piece’s narrator. The language and characters of the suspenseful tale by Lemony Snicket will add a twist of quirkiness to the proceedings.

“Gary’s done a lot of local theater here, so that should be great,” McDevitt said. “I’m looking forward to the Lemony Snicket performance so much! I think it’s great when people go to see something just to enjoy it and end up learning something too.”

The Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra Halloween Concert will take place on October 29 at 4pm at the Petoskey United Methodist Church.

Tickets are available at area Chamber of Commerce offices and the GLCO office at 438 E. Lake St. 231-487-0010 or glcorchestra.org.

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When Kathy Hyland’s Boston terrier, Lucy, became ill with intestinal and skin problems, Hyland began researching foods to help her ailing pet. That cause, close to her heart, would become the catalyst for opening Pets Naturally, a shop focused on feeding and caring for the “whole pet.”

Andrea Margelis, manager of Pets Naturally, said that when Hyland began investigating foods for Lucy, she was shocked at some of the information she found regarding the pet food industry’s substandard ingredients, fillers, and nutritional values.

“After changing Lucy’s diet to a high animal-protein food, Lucy began to get better and became her healthy self again,” Margelis said.

Seeing how a better diet helped Lucy inspired Hyland to make Pets Naturally a “holistic” pet store, said Margelis.

“We treat the pet’s body as a whole, from the inside out, not from the outside in,” she said. “We embrace the old saying, ‘Let thy food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food,’ by only carrying products without any byproducts, artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives.”

ANCESTRAL PET FOODS Pets Naturally sells an array of food — dry, raw, frozen, and even dehydrated — primarily for dogs and cats.

“Many people are unaware that these types of foods are available for pets, and that they mimic an ancestral diet,” Margelis said.

In addition to its specialty foods, many of which also can be special-ordered for pets such as rabbits or other small mammals, the store carries a wide range of health supplements.

“We consider ourselves the pet’s health food store!” Margelis said. “Some of the most popular supplements are Bixbi Organic Pet Superfood medicinal mushrooms, which are immune modulators. These help to regulate the immune system, and this ‘regulation’ is a normalization process so that the mushrooms help to optimize immune response.”

Probiotics, a current health trend for humans, are also available at the store for pets.

“Probiotics are beneficial bacteria that live in the digestive tract,” Margelis said. “All dogs and cats can benefit from these because they aid in digestion and support the immune system, which in turn can help with allergies and several other issues.”

Andrea Margelis is manager of Kathy Hyland’s Pets Naturally, a holistic pet store that offers food, health supplements, toys, and more.

PETS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN A healthy pet is also a well-exercised and well-adjusted pet, so Pets Naturally carries fun playtime items for pets, too. Several of them are items that are difficult to find elsewhere in northern Michigan.

“One of these is our line of Nina Ottosson pet puzzles,” Margelis said. “These puzzles challenge pets mentally and physically.

The pet must figure out how to spin the toy in different directions or open a drawer in order to get a reward. Each of the puzzles are rated easy to hard, so they are great for all ages and stages of life.”

Other “fun feeders” involve mazes so that pets have to work for their food, which slows down their eating to reduce the chance of digestive upset.

“Outward Hound Hide-A-Squirrel is another unique toy,” said Margelis.

“It’s a plush tree that contains several plush squirrels that a dog can take out and play with. And for cats, we have a great line of toys called From the Field by a company that believes in protecting the planet by using materials that don’t contribute to deforestation or pollution.”

BEST FOR YOUR PETS In addition to staying on top of healthy offerings for the benefit of their existing customers, Pets Naturally also strives to help connect potential new pet owners with pets who have yet to find a home.

“We often organize pet food drives, and to help local pet rescues, we’re currently hosting a dog and cat every Saturday from the Cherryland Humane Society,” Margelis said.

It’s just another component of Pets Naturally’s goal to offer the very best for your pets.

“Kathy and myself want to provide both the knowledge and the newest and best natural products to ensure that all pets live their optimal life in our community,” Margelis said.

“By providing owners with these things, we, too, will continue to grow and flourish.”

Pets Naturally is located at 1420 W. South Airport Rd., in Traverse City, open Mon.–Fri. 9am–6pm, Sat. 9am–5pm, Sun. 11am–3pm.

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Michigan-based natural-pet-food company is tangled up in a legal dispute with some of the biggest names in dog chow.

Dr. Randy Wysong, a part-time Traverse City resident, has been trying to make healthier pet foods for 35 years by carefully studying which ingredients should be included and which should not. Now his company, the Midland-based Wysong Corporation, is taking on six companies that he contends use misleading packaging on dog and cat food. He’s filed federal lawsuits against each. It’s a battle he believes is central to the future of small specialtypet-food companies.

AN UNUSUAL COMPANY The acrimony between Wysong Corporation and big pet food companies goes back years.

Wysong’s company, which employs around 30 people, is fairly unconventional for a consumer products manufacturer; it doesn’t have a sales force or a marketing department. Wysong said that’s because its focus is on the health of its “customers.”

“My interest is in trying to improve health, and I’m not just chasing markets or what is fashionable,” said Wysong.

Wysong’s interest in pet health is based in experience. He began his professional career as a veterinarian and saw pets’ food as an important tool to improve their health and stave off disease.

“We were basically the first company to change the emphasis in pet foods — in particular, from nutrient percentages to what the actual ingredients are and what the benefits are that they can impart,” he said.

In the past, he said, dog and cat food was sold without a list of ingredients, but rather, with a breakdown of the percentages of how much protein, fat, and carbohydrates the food contained.

Wysong believes the information was useless; under that metric, he said, a dinner of shoe leather and soap would look nutritious.

PROBIOTIC PIONEER Careful study of ingredients led Wysong to probiotics, or the beneficial bacteria that’s present in foods like yogurt. He saw in probiotics a potential to improve the health of pets, so he developed a process to add it to pet food.

The challenge: Bacteria gets killed in heat, and cooking is necessary to ensure pathogens are removed from pet food ingredients. Wysong developed a process to enrobe the food in probiotics after it’s cooked.

That was in the 1990s, and over the years, other pet food companies copied the process.

Wysong never patented it. He said he didn’t mind being copied because it meant more nutritious pet food was getting to its pet consumers.

“I hate to take all the credit for something, but I would say that most of the natural so-tospeak ‘innovations’ that you see occurring in various products — we were there at the beginning of that,” Wysong said. “Companies have picked up on our various ideas because we’re not hiding our innovations under a rug.”

In 1999, however, Wysong said that Nestle Purina applied for and received a patent for the probiotic process his company had developed.

Later, Nestle sued Wysong and demanded to be paid for a license for use of the process.

“When they sued us for an invention that we basically had 15 years before they had courtesy City of Petoskey Parks and Recreation. their patent, we went to the patent office to

have their patent overturned, and the patent officer overturned their patent,” Wysong said.

Nestle responded with “a fleet of attorneys,” he said. Nestle got the patent partially reinstated, and the dispute carried on until Wysong realized he was up against an opponent with virtually unlimited resources. He said he had to settle.

“They can exhaust small companies that try to do battle with them,” he said. “We’re not even a drop in the bucket compared to somebody like that.”

WYSONG MOVES ON Once the case settled, Wysong was able to go on using his probiotic process. Wysong Corporation moved on, but Wysong said that over the years, he became troubled by how some of the big pet food companies marketed their products. Not only is the packaging misleading, he believes, but it makes it harder for his company to compete on store shelves that contain so many choices.

“It’s got to be incredibly confusing for a consumer trying to determine what is good and bad,” Wysong said. “The companies making these pictorial representations on packages are trying to cut through the clutter and capture the consumers’ attention.”

Wysong, who’s written 13 books about pet health and nutrition, said his company emphasizes education because he believes if consumers were better informed, they would select healthier products for their pets.

“The differences are subtle and really kind of hard to discern for the public,” Wysong said.

As the years went by it became clear, however, that what he perceives as misleading marketing — selling bags of pet food with pictures of human food on them — made it impossible for a small company to compete against the large ones, he said.

A FLEET OF LAWSUITS Wysong Corporation sued Nestle Purina Petcare Company and five other large pet food manufacturers in federal court earlier this year.

The lawsuits aim to level the playing field by prohibiting the appearance of attractive yet misleading food on pet food containers.

Each lawsuit claims the following: “In short, the premium meats, fish and vegetables portrayed on [the companies’] pet foods do not fairly represent the actual ingredients of the packages. The portrayals are literally false and thus by their very nature have the capacity to deceive consumers.”

Rather than the premium cuts pictured, what’s contained in the pet food are far cheaper animal products such as viscera, bones, feet and heads, according to the suit.

The lawsuits cite examples like these: “Chicken breasts like those pictured have a wholesale cost in the range of $1.50 per pound, but the lower grade chicken Nestle Purina actually puts in the packages costs approximately $.12 per pound,” and “Cuts of beef like those pictured have a wholesale cost in the range of $4.00 per pound, but the lower grade beef placed in the packages costs in the range of $.14 per pound.”

The lawsuits argue that, for a small company like Wysong’s to compete against this kind of marketing, plus food that contains “low-cost ingredients,” it would either have to engage in the same tactics itself or file lawsuits to force the companies to change their ways.

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“We have a long history of transparency and accuracy in advertising, marketing and packaging our pet foods, and deny Wysong’s allegations,” said Wendy Vlieks, director of corporate public relations for Purina. “Nestle Purina believes that honesty is the most important ‘ingredient’ in the relationship between pet owners and pet food manufacturers.”

Vlieks said Purina pet food is labeled in compliance with federal requirements and that the advertising accurately reflects the ingredients contained in the food.

“Purina’s practice is consistent with the industry practice, as seen by the fact that most of the industry leaders have also been sued by Wysong in copy-cat litigation,” she said.

Vlieks said she believes Wysong has mischaracterized the patent dispute between the two companies. She said it was not a large company bullying a small one, but rather, a case of Purina defending its intellectual property.

“As all companies do, we have a right and an obligation to protect our intellectual property,” she said. She said that dispute was settled with a confidential agreement.

The lawsuits are pending in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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hen artist Eddie Renner and aspiring filmmaker Haynze Whitmore met at a Cheboygan restaurant to discus their latest project, a film centered around a creepy clown, they had no idea they had just tapped into what would become a zeitgeist; today, just a few months before they begin filming with nationally-known cult horror actor Bill Moseley, stories of creepy clowns appearing after dark are proliferating around the country.

Renner said he would not market his movie, Crepitus, by scaring people in northern Michigan with strangely placed clowns, but he’s not going to ignore that it’s happening.

“It’s really interesting. A lot of people believe it’s a publicity stunt for Stephen King’s new film, It, although he’s categorically denied that,” Renner said. “I like to post about it, because if people are going to do it, I’ll try to use it for marketing. But we wouldn’t purposely send people out as clowns.”

TO FILM IN CHEBOYGAN Crepitus will film in Cheboygan this January, and Renner and Whitmore hope to have the movie released within a year.

Today, Renner lives with his wife, Sarah, who helped him write the screenplay, in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he draws caricatures at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa.

Whitmore studied filmmaking, lighting, and film editing in California and now lives in Cheboygan, where he works at the Mackinaw Trail Winery in Mackinaw City.

This is the pair’s second project. The first time they tried to make a horror movie, Whitmore wrote a script that Renner revised, which, as filming progressed, turned out to be too ambitious for a low-budget production.

The film, Asylum of Secrets, told the story of a haunted mental institution.

Trouble with that production brought the friends to a table at the Your Spirit Café in Cheboygan in May 2014, where they came up with the idea for Crepitus, a movie meant to be able to offer A-plus thrills on a B-movie budget.

Tenner and Whitmore hope that if Crepitus is a hit, they can go back and finish Asylum of Secrets, which is 70 percent completed.

“It was a bit ambitions for our first film — we needed a lot of capital to do this film right,” Renner said. “Crepitus is written to be able to be shot really well with a low budget.”

Moseley will play the lead role of an ancient creature whose immortality is dependent on his consumption of children. The clown suffers from the medical condition crepitus, which means every movement of his bones is audible.

CULT ACTOR ON BOARD Already, plans for the feature have far exceeded the initial vision.

Starting out, Renner and Whitmore didn’t think they could get an actor like Moseley, who has starred in movies like Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 film, Grindhouse, Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects, and Army of Darkness.

On the strength of the script, Renner and Whitmore landed a producer who has experience getting films worldwide distribution, Renner said. That producer, Lance Paul, had worked with Moseley before. He was able to get Moseley to take a look at the script.

“Everything just fell into place,” Renner said. “Bill loved the script.”

In fact, Renner said, he’d written a small part for Moseley on the off chance that Moseley would take the part. Renner said Moseley liked the story so much, he wanted to take the lead role.

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That delighted the producers.

“Bill Moseley has a huge cult following, and anybody who’s been a fan of his, they have pretty much said they would love to see him as an immortal child-eating clown,” Renner said.

It wasn’t the producers’ choice to shoot in January. Renner, after all, had moved to Florida from Cheboygan because he doesn’t like winter. But that’s what worked out based on Moseley’s schedule.

Whitmore said they considered shooting the film in Georgia but ultimately decided on Cheboygan out of loyalty to their home town.

“The small town of Cheboygan has a perfect setting for our story, and I’m really excited that we are shooting it here,” he said.

Bonus for Renner: Most of the movie will take place indoors, so filming in January shouldn’t be an issue.

The team has secured an old house on Huron Street in Cheboygan — the home of ReSouled Furniture and Design — to use as the film set.

LOCAL TEEN GETS A PART The production will employ veteran actors from around the industry, but a Cheboygan native scored one of the lead roles.

Renner said Caitlin Williams, a senior at Cheboygan High School, won the role of one of the leads, 17-year-old Eli. Though Williams has lots of local theater experience, this will be her first film role.

Renner said they had wanted to get at least one or two actors from northern Michigan, so they were especially delighted to

have someone from Cheboygan in a leading role. But he said that Williams won the role on merit and not because she is local.

“She killed (her audition),” he said. “She was absolutely amazing.”

Williams said she’s thrilled to be in a movie.

“I have always worked on stage, and this will be a new adventure for me,” she said. “I am also very excited to be working with Bill Moseley. It will be an excellent opportunity to learn from someone with a lot of movie experience.”

The producers launched Crepitus with a successful crowdfunding campaign in April.

Now that Moseley is involved, the producers are trying to raise a second round of funding.

You can find more information through their Indiegogo link: igg.me/at/CrepitusFilm2

LIFE IN THIS DOG’S ARMY Super Support for Military Dogs

By Kristi Kates To some people, going from working with currency and pensions to chew toys and dog poop might sound like a step down, career-wise. But not to Allison Merrill.

Merrill, who started working in the finance industry right out of high school, was attending college in pursuit of an MBA in finance when a simple addition to her family took her life down an entirely new path: She adopted a German Shepherd, Zuri. Problem was, Zuri didn’t get along with two other dogs in Merrill’s household, so Merrill began researching dog psychology and dog behavior. “Before I knew it, those interests started slowly taking over from my interests in finance,” she said.

By the time Merrill had finished her schooling, she was already well on her way to a new career. “I got my MBA handed to me, I looked at it, and I said, ‘I don’t want to do this any more!’” she said.

When an opportunity to take over the SunDog Boarding Kennel in Traverse City came up, Merrill grabbed it. The catch? She had plenty of experience with dogs, but little experience in running that kind of business.

“The prior owner was moving to Alaska, so I just jumped in and decided I could figure it out as I went,” she said. “Everyone thought I was crazy. They kept asking why I was going from the finance industry to scooping dog poop!”

SunDog, which Merrill calls “the first cage-free doggie-daycare boarding kennel in northern Michigan,” is in a fenced-in camp-like setting attached to Merrill’s home, allowing her to take care of the dogs 24/7, 365 days a year. The expansive indoor-outdoor environment allows dogs ample playtime and individualized attention. Three of the dogs — Zen, a white German Shepherd;

Zion, a Shiloh Shepherd; and Zuri — are Merrill’s own, but she considers all of the boarding canines under her care part of her family. Zen and Zion even serve as canine blood donors in northern Michigan to help other dogs in need.

Through her local connections, Merrill ran into Doug and Pam Davis in Traverse City one day. Vietnam veteran Doug Davis’ much-beloved dog, Remmy (who passed away in December 2015), was a war hero and local celebrity, a retired patrol explosivedetection dog credited with saving dozens of lives. “They asked how the kennel was going — I’d watched Remmy for them a few times when they’d traveled — and they told me about Dixie Whitman, the woman who runs the Military Working Dog Team Support Association.”

The MWDTSA is an organization that focuses on active-duty deployed militarydog teams; it also supports education and memorial efforts. It didn’t take long for Merrill to get involved once she found out about the work that the MWDTSA does; she now represents the MWDTSA in Michigan.

“Probably the biggest thing we do is send 200 care packages per quarter,” Merrill said.

“Lots of other organizations do this as well, but we’re a little different; we focus on really fun packages that offer something for both the serviceman or servicewoman and their dog. We do theme packages for holidays and such. The D.O.G. Bakery in Traverse City helps us a lot, donating dog treats and biscuits for us to send.”

A recent package that was sent out for Talk Like a Pirate Day (Sept. 19) included a T-shirt, hat, snacks, and pirate-themed coffee for the soldier — plus a doggie pirate eye patch, water bowl, paw wax, and Bowser Beer, a non-alcoholic beverage for dogs. Support and funding for the MWDT-

SA comes from donations and fundraisers, something Merrill said has been challenging in Michigan.

“People see that the MWDTSA is headquartered in West Virginia and figure we’re not a local organization,” she said. “But we are! I’m right here in Traverse City, working to help support the troops and their dogs!”

The majority of donated funds, she added, go directly into the care packages, special memorials for war dogs, and educational events where kids can learn about becoming a military dog handler. “We also help soldiers when their dogs are killed in action,” Merrill said. “We help fund costs to bring the dogs’ remains back home from overseas.”

SunDog has afforded Merrill additional opportunities to help. Through both her own boarding kennel and the MWDTSA, she’s established a lot of good relationships with military dog teams. “Some of the retired teams will bring their dogs and will volunteer with us,” she said.

She also boards dogs long-term when they’re not able to accompany their owners. “One dog, a German Shepherd named Tank, belongs to Staff Sergeant Baron of the Air Force, who’s currently overseas for a 15-month tour,” Merrill explained. “He’s required to work with the dog permanently assigned to the base he’s at, so his own dog has to stay here. We’re waiting to hear when the sergeant will be able to return, but for now Tank has kind of become a spokesdog for us and is part of our kennel family here.”

Merrill’s own relationships with the dogs she cares for, and with their soldiers, are what have made this career change worthwhile to her. “It’s heartwarming and very special to me to establish bonds with these service people and their dogs who are working for all of us overseas,” she said. “We love getting photos back from the soldiers, and

Left: Staff Sergeant Baron with his military service dog Tank.

Right: Military Working Dog Ttoby tries on his MWDTSA pirate gear (dogs born into the U.S. Department of Defense’s military working-dog breeding program are named with double first initials, to distinguish them from other military dogs.)

Below: Allison Merrill with MWDTSA care packages ready to be mailed.

it helps to show them to our donors so they can see the rapport we’ve built. Other people do send care packages, but sometimes they forget about the dogs, and it means so much to me to remember both.”

To find out more about the MWDTSA, visit mwdtsa.org. To find out more about SunDog Boarding Kennel and/or to donate locally to help support service people and their military working dogs, visit sundog-kennel.com or call 231-932-9150.

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NORTHERN SEEN 1 Justin Micheau, Carol Sullivan, Dr. Mike Sullivan, and Alfred Soriano at the Charlevoix Circle of Arts.

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3 Andrew Lemle, Christina Elena, Jeffrey Trent, Michelle Lemle, and Tom McCartney enjoy the Apple Fest at Lake Charlevoix Brewing.

4 Cyndi Lieberman and Sue Gokee at the Charlevoix Apple Festival.

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-------------------LELAND FALL FRENZY: 10am-6pm, Downtown Leland & Fishtown. lelandmi.com

-------------------PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: Oct. 21-28.

Three course menus for $25 for dinner & $15 for lunch at participating restaurants in Petoskey & Bay Harbor. petoskeydowntown.com

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EMPTY THE SHELTERS DAY, TC: The Bissell Pet Foundation is covering all adoption fees today & AdoptBoxes will be given out with each adoption, while supplies last, at Cherryland Humane Society, TC. cherrylandhumane.org

-------------------GRAND OPENING: Of The Village Arts Building, 301 Mill St., Northport. A ribbon cutting & members exhibit by the Northport Arts Association will be held today from 10am-4pm.

231-386-7090.

-------------------BOYNE CITY AREA RESTAURANT WEEK: Oct. 17-24. Two-for-one lunches &/or dinners for $35 or less at participating eateries & food retailers. boyneappetit.com

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QUOTA OF TC PRESENTS TRIVIA NIGHT: A fundraising event to support the Quota Stuffed Moose Project for EMS. Held at American Legion Post 35, TC. $100/team. Doors open at 5:30pm.

Play starts at 7pm. Come in costume, decorate your table. Register: quotatraversecity@gmail. com. www.facebook.com/quotatraversecity

-------------------ZOMBIE WALK: Fight Hunger: 11am, Downtown East Jordan. Bring a non-perishable food item to help re-stock local community food banks. There will also be face painting, a live band, Monster Mash Box Car Race, pumpkin carving contest & much more. 231-536-3395.

-------------------DINNER WITH THE BOYS: This comedy takes place at Old Town Playhouse Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC at 7:30pm. Tickets, $17. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------EMPTY THE SHELTERS DAY, HARBOR SPRINGS: The Bissell Pet Foundation is covering all adoption fees today & AdoptBoxes will be given out with each adoption at Little Traverse Bay Humane Society, Harbor Springs. ltbhs.com

-------------------SCRAPBOOK CLUB: 10am-2pm, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, TC. 947-9880.

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MEET THE CARTOONIST: Join local cartoonist Jeffrey J. Manley for a look at his work & some drawing adventures. 2pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Ages 5+. tadl.org

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AGED TO PERFECTION MEETING: 10am, Old Town Playhouse, TC. 947-7389.

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ANNUAL FRANKFORT FILM FESTIVAL: Oct. 20-23, The Garden Theater, Frankfort. Tickets, $10 each. Schedule: frankfortgardentheater. com/filmfestival/

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

-------------------“MURDER BY POE”: Presented by the Little Traverse Civic Theatre at Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey from 8-10pm. Tickets, $12$17. ltct.org

-------------------THE DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA CRAFTS ‘N’ MORE SHOW: 9am-3pm, St. Mary Cathedral Hall, Gaylord.

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ARTY PARTY: Featuring selected area artists showing a variety of original art. 9am-7pm, The Old Art Building, Leland. 947-3081.

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“LEAVING IOWA”: The Comedy About Family Vacations. Presented by the Manistee Civic Players. 7:30pm, Ramsdell Theatre, Manistee.

Tickets start at $11. MyNorthTickets.com

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PINO FORASTIERE: This internationally renowned Italian guitarist plays The Music House, Manistee at 7:30pm. Tickets: $10 at the door; $5 students & seniors. 231-723-2744.

-------------------MACKINAC ISLAND GREAT TURTLE TRAIL RUN: 5.7 mile run & walk & half marathon.

11:30am, 6633 Main St., Mackinac Island. runmackinac.com/turtle.htm

-------------------NORDIC SKI SWAP: Presented by the Vasa Ski Club from 10am-2pm at Brick Wheels, TC. Buy new & used ski equipment. There will also be roller ski clinics, free food & more. You can also drop off your used Nordic skis, boots or other gear on Fri., Oct. 21 from 4-7pm. vasaskiclub.org

-------------------GOPHERWOOD CONCERTS: Presents The Whistle Stop Revue. Enjoy this progressive/ bluegrass/Americana band from Detroit at the Cadillac Elks Club at 8pm. Tickets: $12 advance, $15 door. gopherwoodconcerts.org

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AN EVENING WITH ANN PATCHETT: Presented by the National Writers Series at Lars Hockstad Auditorium, TC at 7pm. Featuring her newest book Commonwealth. With guest host Doug Stanton. General admission, $25.50. cityoperahouse.org

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MOTOWN THE SOUNDS OF TOUCH: 7:30pm, The Opera House, Cheboygan. Tickets: $20 adults, $10 students. theoperahouse.org

Join TART Trails & about 1,500 gals, guys & ghouls at the eighth annual Zombie Run 5K on Saturday, October 29. The race starts at 9am at Right Brain Brewery, TC. info: tczombierun.com Photo by Allen/Kent Photography

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FUNDRAISER: Help an area couple, Walt & Elise Dull, cover medical expenses from burns sustained in their Aug. 18 house fire. The theme is Disco Inferno & will include food, performances from area musicians,

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games, raffles & disco dancing. Held at the Old Town Playhouse, TC from 5-9pm. $25 suggested donation. 231-463-3100.

-------------------PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: Oct. 21-28. Three course menus for $25 for dinner & $15 for lunch at participating restaurants in Petoskey & Bay Harbor. petoskeydowntown.com

Ladies Night - $1 off

drinks & $5 martinis w/ Jukebox

Tues - $2 well drinks & shots OPEN MIC W/HOST CHRIS STERR Wed - Get it in the can for $1 w/Skin & Friends (90’s hip hop) Thurs - MI beer night $1 off

all MI beer w/Silence No More (No cover) Friday Oct 28: Happy Hour: Jamz North

Then: THE MAINSTAYS

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Sunday Oct 30 : NFL Sunday Ticket

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Monday Oct 31:

DJ FASEL (NO COVER)

941-1930 downtown TC check us out at unionstreetstationtc.net

Apples, Pumpkins, Cider & Donuts Closing Oct. 31st!

End of Season Sale Peaches, Blueberries, Thanks for Another Season!

Apples, Canning Great Tomatoes

Sweet Corn Home Bread & & Pies Pies Home Baked Baked Bread Homemade Jams & & Jellies Jellies Homemade Jams Ice Cream & & Donuts Donuts Ice Cream ~~ Local Maple Syrup Syrup Local Honey, Honey, Maple Cherry & Wines Wines~~ Cherry Products Products &

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Open Daily: Daily: 8am-6pm 8am-8pm Open End of Season Sale

Starting Fri.,Fruits Oct 20 & Nov., 3rd Fresh &Closing Vegetables

“DON’T GUESS, SOIL TEST”: Leelanau County MSU Extension will host this free healthy soils workshop at a local Leelanau County farm from 1-4pm. Info/RSVP: email: ferrares@msu.edu or call 231-256-9888.

GLEN ARBOR’S PUMPKIN FESTIVAL: 1-6pm, Downtown Glen Arbor. Featuring pumpkin carving, children & pets costume contest/parade, pumpkin games, live music by Jack Pine, & lighting of the pumpkins. glenlakechamber.com

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HALLOWEEN HOWL PET COSTUME CONTEST: Presented by the Great Lakes Humane Society at Shady Lane Cellars, Suttons Bay from 2-5pm. greatlakeshs.com

-------------------GRAND OPENING: Of The Village Arts Building, 301 Mill St., Northport. A ribbon cutting & members exhibit by the Northport Arts Association will be held today from 10am-4pm.

231-386-7090.

-------------------BATTLE OF THE BOOKS GRAND TRAVERSE COMPETITION: 2-3pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Book-based quiz competition for all 4th & 5th graders living in the Grand Traverse region. Info: battleofthebooksgt.com

-------------------BOYNE CITY AREA RESTAURANT WEEK: Oct. 17-24. Two-for-one lunches &/or dinners for $35 or less at participating eateries & food retailers. boyneappetit.com

-------------------“FALL FOR DANCE”: This showcase & fundraiser is presented by the Crooked Tree Arts Center School of Ballet Pre-Professional dancers at the Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center at 7pm. It is comprised of student choreography, as well as material set by School of Ballet alum & professional dancers. Tickets: $15 adults, $5 students. Proceeds support the Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center. crookedtree.org

-------------------DINNER WITH THE BOYS: This comedy takes place at Old Town Playhouse Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC at 2pm. Tickets, $17. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------ANNUAL FRANKFORT FILM FESTIVAL: Oct. 20-23, The Garden Theater, Frankfort.

Tickets, $10 each. Schedule: frankfortgardentheater.com/filmfestival/

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NMC Vocal Jazz Ensemble October 27

PINO FORASTIERE: This internationally renowned Italian guitarist plays Red Sky Stage, Petoskey from 7-9pm. $10 advance, $12.50 door. redskystage.com

-------------------TSO CONCERT: World famous Frank Almond leads the Traverse Symphony Orchestra in a tour de force program as both conductor & violin soloist. 3pm, Corson Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts. Tickets start at $23.50. traversesymphony.org

-------------------ARTY PARTY: Featuring selected area artists showing a variety of original art. 10am-4pm, The Old Art Building, Leland. 947-3081.

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“LEAVING IOWA”: The Comedy About Family Vacations. Presented by the Manistee Civic Players. 2pm, Ramsdell Theatre, Manistee.

Tickets start at $11. MyNorthTickets.com

-------------------AN EVENING WITH JODI PICOULT: Presented by the National Writers Series at City Opera House, TC at 7pm. Featuring her newest book Small Great Things. General admission, $25.50. SOLD OUT. cityoperahouse.org

-------------------FALL COLOR HIKE: Join Leelanau Conservancy docents in a hike around the DeYoung Farm, TC to see fall colors at 1pm. Park in the Strang Rd. lot. leelanauconservancy.org

oct 24

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-------------------POETS MEET MUSICIANS: 7-9pm, Acoustic Taproom, TC. 231-392-6121.

-------------------PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: Oct. 21-28.

Three course menus for $25 for dinner & $15 for lunch at participating restaurants in Petoskey & Bay Harbor. petoskeydowntown.com

-------------------FREE FILM & DISCUSSION: “Equal Means Equal”: The definitive documentary film on the status of women in America. 6:30pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. A panel discussion will follow with Brenda Quick. thebaytheatre.com

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FRIENDLY GARDEN CLUB OF TC MEETING: Featuring guest speaker Tom Ford, local naturalist, illustrator & photographer. 12:15pm, First Congregational Church, TC. 231-271-6831.

-------------------CONNECTING WOMEN IN BUSINESS LUNCHEON: Featuring Petoskey Robotics.

11:30am-1pm, The Inn at Bay Harbor. $15 CWIB members & $20 not-yet-members. business.petoskeychamber.com

-------------------BRAS, YOGA, SHIATSU & FUN: A girls’ night out for breast cancer patients & survivors in the Cowell Family Cancer Center Health & Wellness Suite on the second floor, TC from 5:30-7:30pm. munsonhealthcare.org/cancerevents

-------------------PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 24)

-------------------EAST JORDAN STATE OF THE COMMUNITY: Noon-1:30pm, Harvest Barn Church, East Jordan. $15 Chamber members; $20 not-yetmembers. Reservations: 231-536-7351.

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PARKINSON’S NETWORK NORTH DAY GROUP: 10am, TC Senior Center. 947-7389.

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INTERLOCHEN BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:30pm, Hofbrau Steakhouse & American Grill. $5. interlochenchamber.org

-------------------PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 24)

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FULFILLAMENT: The DO Series: Workshop to Create a Compelling About Page. Facilitated by Holly Wren Spaulding, author & creative writing teacher. Blk Mkrt Coffee, TC, 6-8pm. $50. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------FILM & FILMMAKER: The Glen Lake Library will present the documentary film Alice’s Ordinary People at Empire Township Hall at 7pm.

A Q&A session will follow with filmmaker Craig Dudnick. glenlakelibrary.net

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BOYNE CITY AREA RESTAURANT WEEK: Oct. 17-24. Two-for-one lunches &/or dinners for $35 or less at participating eateries & food retailers. boyneappetit.com

PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: Join this march at 11:30am from Sunset Park to the Open Space, TC. Presented by Zonta Club of TC. zontatc.org

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-------------------DINNER WITH THE BOYS: This comedy takes place at Old Town Playhouse Studio Theatre at the Depot, TC at 7:30pm. Tickets, $17. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------AGED TO PERFECTION HALLOWEEN SHOW REHEARSAL: 6:30pm, lower level, Old Town Playhouse, TC. 947-7389.

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ALDEN MEN’S CLUB BREAKFAST MEETING: 8am, Alden Methodist Church. Reviewing the Harvest Dinner. aldenmensclub.org

-------------------PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 24)

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HALLOWEEN CARTOONS & HAUNTED BASEMENT TOURS: 10am, The State Theatre, TC. Free. stateandbijou.org

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OAKWOOD CEMETERY TOURS WITH A HALLOWEEN TWIST: 1pm, Oakwood Cemetery, TC. Cost, $10. Proceeds benefit the Traverse Area Historical Society. 947-1480. traversehistory.org

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ARTISTS FROM INTERLOCHEN: At Kirkbride Hall, TC at 7:30pm. Faculty Jazz Recital with Bill Sears, saxophone; Xavier Davis, piano; & Rodney Whitaker, bass. Tickets: $24 full, $10 youth. interlochen.org

GRAND OPENING: Of The Village Arts Building, 301 Mill St., Northport. A ribbon cutting & members exhibit by the Northport Arts Association will be held today from 10am-4pm.

231-386-7090.

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-------------------HOLIDAY ART FAIR: Featuring fine arts, crafts, & holiday gifts made by 55 area artists.

5-8pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. dennosmuseum.org

oct 28

friday

NMC CONCERT BAND: Presents “The People’s Choice: Music at the Oscars.”

7:30-9:30pm, Milliken Auditorium, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------9TH ANNUAL FRESHWATER SUMMIT: This conference of environmental professionals & concerned citizens focusing on current issues facing the Great Lakes region will touch upon many topics affecting the Great Lakes, especially aquatic invasive species, including Asian carp, round gobies, & the New Zealand mudsnail. 8:30am-3pm, NMC Hagerty Center, TC. Tickets, $35; $15 for students. mynorthtickets.com

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FALL FAMILY FESTIVAL: 7-9pm, Mt. Zion Family Worship Center, TC. Games, food & give-aways. For pre-k through 6th grade. Entry fee is one bag of candy/family. 946-4200.

-------------------POLLINATOR PLANTING WORKSHOP: 2-4pm, 3778 Crawford Rd., Frankfort. Presented by the Benzie Conservation District.

A “hand’s on” know-how & instruction for seeding the wildflowers & grasses in various garden or crop sizes. $5-$10 donations are suggested. 231-882-4391, x11.

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AGED TO PERFECTION HALLOWEEN SHOW: 7:30pm, lower level, Old Town Playhouse, TC. 947-7389.

-------------------PETOSKEY RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Mon., Oct. 24)

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AUTHOR SIGNINGS: 12-4pm, Horizon Books, TC. horizonbooks.com

HALLOWEEN COUNTRY DANCE: Held at Summit City Grange, Kingsley. 6pm dinner, 7-10pm dance. Live music. Donation. 231263-4499.

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“LEAVING IOWA”: The Comedy About Family Vacations. Presented by the Manistee Civic Players. 7:30pm, Ramsdell Theatre, Manistee.

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-------------------HALLOWEEN COMMUNITY BASH: Held at Camp Hayo-Went-Ha, Central Lake. The Fall Family Festival runs from 1-5pm & the Torch Lake Trail of Terror runs from 7:30-10pm. $6/ person or $20 for 4 people. Find ‘Hayo-WentHa’s Annual Halloween Bash’ on Facebook.

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SATURDAY PROGRAMMING: Fall & Halloween-themed crafts at the Boardman River Nature Center, TC from 11am-1pm. At 2pm will be a talk about bats. You can walk the self-led Spooky Sabin Walk on the lower Sabin trail all day long. Presented by the GT Conservation District. natureiscalling.org

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Nov. 4-5 A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau, Interlochen Arts Academy Theatre Co. Nov. 10 Artists from Interlochen at Kirkbride Hall - Faculty Violin Recital Ara Sarkissian, Accompanied by Nozomi Khudyev and Joan Raeburn Holland Nov. 17 Artists from Interlochen at Kirkbride Hall - Singer-Songwriters Courtney Kaiser & Kyle Novy, with Crispin Campbell and John Driscoll Nov. 17-18 The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas, Interlochen Arts Academy Theatre Co.

tickets.interlochen.org 800.681.5920

DOWNTOWN TC HALLOWEEN WALK: Trick or treat at participating stores from 1011:30am. downtowntc.com

-------------------FALL BRIDAL SHOW & EXPO: Meet celebrity wedding planner David Tutera. Noon-4pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Presented by A Bride’s Time Bridal. Tickets, $15. abridestime.com

-------------------AGED TO PERFECTION HALLOWEEN SHOW: (See Fri., Oct. 28)

-------------------KIDS HALLOWEEN CONCERT WITH COSTUME CONTEST: Featuring the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra. 4-6pm, United Methodist Church, Petoskey. Tickets: $10 adults, free for children. glcorchestra.org

-------------------41ST ANNUAL HALLOWEEN PARTY: 6-8:30pm, Williamsburg Fire Station, Station #3. Haunted hayride, crafts, cake walk, photo booth & piñata smash. business.elkrapidschamber.org

-------------------DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY TRICK OR TREATING: 10am-noon. The Children’s Costume Parade will begin at Central Elementary School at 10am. petoskeydowntown.com

-------------------EIGHTH ANNUAL TC ZOMBIE RUN: This 5K run/walk will start & finish at Right Brain Brewery, TC. Starts at 9am. Proceeds benefit TART Trails. Info: tczombierun.com

-------------------GRAND OPENING: Of The Village Arts Building, 301 Mill St., Northport. A ribbon cutting & members exhibit by the Northport Arts Association will be held today from 10am-4pm.

231-386-7090.

-------------------HALLOWEEN ARTS & CRAFTS FOR KIDS: 11am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Free.

For ages 3-12. crookedtree.org

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HAUNTED VALLEY TRAIL RUN: 8:30am, Otsego Club & Resort, Gaylord. Kid Fun Run, $5; 10K, $35; & 5K, $30. otsegoclub.com

Presented By: A Bride’s Time Bridal

FALL BRIDAL SHOW & EXPO - SAT & SUN OCT. 29th & 30th

-------------------“LEAVING IOWA”: (See Fri., Oct. 28) -------------------TIM BURTON’S MASQUERADE BALL: Join NMC iDance for an evening of partner dancing inspired by Tim Burton’s works.

6pm, City Opera House, TC. Workshop, $5; dance, $12; & workshop/dance combo, $16. cityoperahouse.org

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TRICK-OR-TREAT-OR-DRAW: Stop by the Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC between 10am & 5pm to show off your costume & pick up some Big Draw themed prizes. dennosmuseum.org

-------------------FALL COLOR AT KRUMWIEDE HIKE: Join Leelanau Conservancy docents as they hike up & down the trail at Krumwiede Forest Reserve, 5251 S. Wheeler Rd., Maple City at 1pm. leelanauconservancy.org

-------------------HOLIDAY ART FAIR: (See Fri., Oct. 28)

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OAKWOOD CEMETERY TOURS WITH A HALLOWEEN TWIST: 4pm, Oakwood Cemetery, TC. Cost, $10.

Proceeds benefit the Traverse Area Historical Society. 947-1480.

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LWVLC’S SOLAR HARVEST TOUR: 1-4pm, Leelanau County. Stops at 11 locations highlighting an array of solar installations. Free.

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LAST SUNDAY JAZZ: 3-5:30pm, Chateau Chantal Winery & Inn, TC. chateauchantal.com

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AMATEUR RADIO TECHNICIAN CLASSES: Presented by the Cherryland Amateur Radio Club in the training room for New Approaches Center, TC. Meets every Weds. for about 12 weeks, starting Oct. 26. Free, but you must have a copy of the American Radio Relay Leagues Technician Class workbook, version 3. www.cherrylandarc.com

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FREE JAZZERCISE: In Oct. enjoy a free week or two classes of Jazzercise at the John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion of McLaren Northern Michigan, Petoskey. Classes are Mondays at 5:30pm & Wednesdays at 4:15pm.

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COMPULSIVE EATERS ANONYMOUS - HOW: Held every Thurs. from 5:30-6:30pm at Friends Church, 206 S. Oak Street - at 5th Street, TC. For more info: traversecityCEAHOW.org

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THE HUNT FOR THE REDS OF OCTOBER: Takes place weekdays during the month of Oct. Your ticket gets you a complimentary pour at each of more than 20 participating wineries on the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail offering diverse red wines. Tickets, $10; $5 of each ticket goes to the American Red Cross. www.lpwines.com

-------------------DOWNTOWN HISTORIC WALKING TOURS: Held every Sat. in Oct. at 10:30am. Meet 20 minutes early in front of Horizon Books, TC. Cost, $10; proceeds benefit the Traverse Area Historical Society. 995-0313.

-------------------HEALTHY COOKING ON A BUDGET: This free six-week class offered by Love In the Name of Christ begins on Sept. 26. Register: 941-5683.

-------------------THE BIG DRAW - GRAND TRAVERSE: Activities through Oct. Schedule: dennosmuseum.org

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DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP: Meets every Monday through Oct. 24 from 1-3:30pm at Golden Fellowship Hall, Interlochen. Free. Pre-register: 1-800-442-1713.

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YOGA 1-2: With Kelly Stiglich 500-ERYT at GT Circuit, TC on Tuesdays at 5:30pm. $10 suggested donation. gtcircuit.org

FALL BRIDAL SHOW & EXPO: (See Sat., Oct. 29)

AGED TO PERFECTION HALLOWEEN SHOW: 2pm, lower level, Old Town Playhouse, TC. 947-7389.

6TH ANNIVERSARY HOEDOWN CELEBRATION: Fundraiser for the Human Nature School.

2-7pm, Gilbert Lodge at Twin Lakes, TC. Enjoy live music, dancing, food, games, a bonfire, & much more. Suggested donation: $15/person or $30/family. humannatureschool.org/hoedown/

-------------------GRAND OPENING: Of The Village Arts Building, 301 Mill St., Northport. A ribbon cutting & members exhibit by the Northport Arts Association will be held today from 10am-4pm.

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TRUNK OR TREAT: 3-5pm, Williamsburg United Methodist Church. Enjoy food, games & trick or treating.

-------------------CASTLE FARMS GRAND BRIDAL EXPO: 10am-3pm, Castle Farms, Charlevoix. Featuring over 50 wedding experts. Includes the Grand Finale Fashion Show at 3pm. Admission: $5 advance, $6 door. castlefarms.com/ grand-bridal-expo/

-------------------NORTHERN MICHIGAN BRASS BAND: Presents “Fanfares and Flourishes,” featuring a wide range of music from classical to Broadway favorites. 3-5pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. $10. crookedtree.org

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“LEAVING IOWA”: The Comedy About Family Vacations. Presented by the Manistee Civic Players. 2pm, Ramsdell Theatre, Manistee.

Tickets start at $11. MyNorthTickets.com

-------------------HOLIDAY ART FAIR: Featuring fine arts, crafts, & holiday gifts made by 55 area artists.

1-5pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. dennosmuseum.org

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DEBTORS ANONYMOUS: 12 Step Meeting. Held on Tuesdays from 7-8pm at Munson Community Health Center, east door, Room G, TC. For info, email: tcdajp34@gmail.com

-------------------ADOPTION SATURDAYS: Pets Naturally, TC hosts one dog & one cat from the Cherryland Humane Society on Saturdays from 11am2pm. www.petsnaturallytc.com

-------------------BOCCE E DEROCHE: Try your hand at authentic Italian Bocce while listening to Interlochen’s Brad DeRoche on guitar on Fridays & Saturdays, 7-10pm at Bella Fortuna North, Lake Leelanau. bellafortunarestaurant.com

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-------------------INTERLOCHEN FARMERS MARKET: Interlochen Shopping Center, big parking lot behind Ric’s, Interlochen Corners, 9am-2pm, every Sun. through Oct. facebook.com/interlochenfarmersmarket

-------------------BLISSFEST JAM SESSIONS: Every Sun., 1-4pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Bring your instruments or just sing along or listen. www. redskystage.com.

-------------------COLORING CLUB FOR GROWN-UPS: Held on Wednesdays from 12-1pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Free. crookedtree.org/tc

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BOXING FOR PARKINSON’S: Parkinson’s Network North meets at 10am every Mon. at Fit For You, TC for these free sessions. gtaparkinsonsgroup.org

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“JUST FOR US” BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: Meets the first Tues. of every month from 6:30-8:30pm at the McLaren Northern MI John & Marnie Demmer Wellness Pavilion & Dialysis Center, Petoskey. 800-248-6777.

-------------------SONG OF THE MORNING, VANDERBILT: Free yoga classes, Tues. – Fri., 7:30-8:30am. songofthemorning.org

-------------------TRAVERSE BAY BLUES SOCIETY JAM SESSION: Held the third Thurs. of every month from 7-10pm at InsideOut Gallery, TC. traversebayblues.com

-------------------PETOSKEY FILM THEATER: Showing international, indie, art house & documentary films on Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays.

Carnegie Building, 451 E. Mitchell St., next to Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Donations welcome. For schedule find ‘Petoskey Film Theater’ on Facebook. 231-758-3108.

-------------------DEPOT COFFEEHOUSE: Fridays from 6-7:30pm at After 26 Depot Café, Cadillac. Enjoy coffee with dinner or dessert while listening to live entertainment. 231-468-3526.

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“OTHER WORDS FOR NATURE”: Runs through Dec. 15 at the Cowell Family Cancer Center, TC. 231-392-8492.

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5TH ANNUAL FARM TO FRAME JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Through Nov. 30, Aerie Restaurant, GT Resort & Spa, Acme.

From the seed to the harvest, & from the market to the plate, this exhibit highlights phases of local agriculture & food production. crookedtree.org

-------------------MYTHS OF THE NORTHWOODS: Explores the legend of Paul Bunyan & other lumberjack yarns. Runs through Nov. 4 at Charlevoix Circle of Arts. charlevoixcircle.org

-------------------“FANTASY MASQUES: What’s Hidden, What’s Revealed”: This multi-media exhibition by Carole Steinberg Berk is shown at the Leelanau Township Library, Northport through Oct. 31. carolesteinbergberk.com

-------------------RARE THREADS: Ancestral Inspirations Exhibit: Through Oct. 23, Jordan River Arts Center, East Jordan. jordanriverarts.com

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THE BOTANIC GARDEN, HISTORIC BARNS PARK, TC: Oct. Artists of the Month in the upper level of the Visitor Center. Acrylic & watercolor artists include Janet Wilson Oliver & Dorothy McGrath Grossman. thebotanicgarden.org A PRJCT OMNI & WAREHOUSE MRKT EXHIBITION: Selected artists’ work from around the world will be shown & sold in the halls of Warehouse Market, TC through Nov. 30. warehousemrkt.com

OLIVER ART CENTER, FRANKFORT: - AIR Show: Featuring work created by 33 artists who have participated in the GAAA Artistin-Residence program. Runs through Nov. 26.

A panel discussion will be held on Sat., Nov. 5 at 1pm. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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THREE PINES STUDIO, CROSS VILLAGE: - “Fellow Travelers: Large & Small”: Sculptures

by Doug Melvin.

- Letters: Words with Friends: This all media exhibition is held in support of the Harbor Springs Festival of the Book. Runs through Nov. 1. threepinesstudio.com

-------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - SOLILOQUY: Detroit Society of Women Painters & Sculptors: Through Nov. 19, Gilbert Gallery.

- Back to School: CTAC Teachers’ Exhibition: Runs through Jan. 7 in the Atrium Gallery. crookedtree.org

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: - A Walk Through Michigan Seasons: Featuring landscape artists Alan Maciag, Margie Guyot & Lori Feldpausch. Runs through Dec. 3. crookedtree.org

-------------------DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - Permanence & Impermanence: Iceland – a Land of Temporal Contrasts. By Jean Larson.

Runs through Dec. 31.

- Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon: The works of renowned photographer Paola Gianturco. Runs through Dec. 31.

- Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection: On display through Nov. 27. Featuring 27 images by 7 artists in stone cut, stencil, lithography & etching/aquatint. dennosmuseum.org

NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN BESTSELLERS For the week ending 10/16/16 HARDCOVER FICTION

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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story by David Maraniss Simon & Schuster $32.50 Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Metropolitan Books $26.00 Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard Henry Holt & Co. $30.00

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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story by David Maraniss Simon & Schuster $17.00 Trails of M-22 by Jim Dufresne Michigan Trail Maps $19.95 Field Guide to Northwest Michigan by James Dake Grass River Natural Area $16.00 Compiled by Horizon Books: Traverse City, Petoskey, Cadillac

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FOURSCORE by kristi kates

SeaSOneD TO The bOne A celebration of authentic Jamaican cuisine and culture.

Thee Oh Sees – A Weird Exits – Castle Face Records

Rock isn’t supposed to be predictable, it’s true. But sometimes you can go so far into that approach that you effectively distance yourself from your own fans. Such is the case with Thee Oh Sees latest, a perplexing set that unfortunately often sabotages itself. Tracks like “The Axis” show promise, drawing you in with interesting audio and lyrical imagery — but then derail with out-of-place guitar solos that just aren’t appealing. And waiting for the way-toolong “Crawl Out From the Fall Out” to end will soon find you looking for an exit of your own.

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Setting down a foundation of solid songwriting (and awesome album art) for its sophomore album is returning New Jersey indie-prog band Thank You Scientist, which offers an absorbing mix of genres that spans everything from thinking person’s math-rock (the driving “Caverns”) to the impressive “Mr. Invisible,” stuffed to the brim with rich layers and funky beats. Equally mixed to the max are the band’s choices of instrumentation, which further fine-tune the tracks with perfectly strange seasonings like vaudeville-ready melodies, theramin tunes, and jaunty whistling. rhythm than ever before.

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Various Artists – Day of the Dead – 4AD

This is a polarizing album from the get-go, one that’s separating dedicated Deadheads from those who already have shied away from the release once they heard who it was focused on; but that avoidance could be a mistake. This isn’t a Grateful Dead album — it’s an indie album of Dead covers that showcases the band’s accomplished songwriting abilities once they’re separated from that outer layer of tie-dye and noodle dancing.

Highlights include The National’s take on “Morning Dew,” Wilco’s version of “St. Stephen,” and Bela Fleck’s rendition of “Help on the Way.”

Butch Walker – Stay Gold – DB Records

Offering up equal parts of American blue-collar rock and English glam-rock is the latest ambitious but heartfelt set from singersongwriter Butch Walker. With definitive influences ranging from Bruce Springsteen (“Ludlow Expectations”) to John Mellencamp/ John Hiatt (“Record Store” ) to T. Rex and The Rolling Stones (“Stay Gold”), the set is like a trek through the American heartland with a side jaunt over to England, stuffed with FMradio hooks and only slowing for one carefully crafted ballad, “Descending,” with singer Ashley Monroe.

BOWIE’S LEGACY RETURNS ON NEW COMPILATION Legacy is the apt title that’s been given to a new collection of David Bowie’s biggest singles, a compilation disc that’s due out on Nov. 11. The set will present Bowie’s first hit, “Space Oddity,” and will continue on through his final 2016 singles, “Lazarus” and “I Can’t Give Everything Away.” Classic Bowie tracks like “The Jean Genie,” “Young Americans, “Let’s Dance” and “Modern Love” are also part of the package. Bowie’s collaborations with the Pet Shop Boys, Mick Jagger, and Queen also will be included in the collection, which will arrive as a single-CD and a double-deluxe CD package, with a double vinyl album version also on the way in January 2017 …

Sia will release an expanded deluxe edition of her album This Is Acting, with seven extra tracks. Two of these — the Sean Paul version of Sia’s hit “Cheap Thrills,” and “The Greatest,” which features vocal contributions from Kendrick Lamar — you already might have heard, as they’ve already been released as standalone singles. The deluxe This is Acting also will include two remixes and three new songs from Sia, with the whole thing hitting outlets this week …

Justin Bieber reportedly has teamed up with his longtime manager, Scooter Braun, to launch what will be his very own record label, for which the Beebs plans to “sign new

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artists and become a music mogul.” Bieber is already scouting around for female singers and a new band or two to launch his label’s beginning roster, which he said will be, in part, his way to return the favor that Usher did when the latter discovered Bieber back in 2008. Before you scoff, remember that Bieber is actually the one who helped singer Carly Rae Jepsen sign a record deal after hearing her song “Call Me Maybe” …

The Rolling Stones’ career is now set to be preserved in a museum, thanks to a career-spanning exhibition of the band, which will make its debut in New York City on Nov. 12. Called Exhibitionism, the curated show immerses fans in the Stones’ 50year history with over 500 rare items, from handwritten lyrics and band instruments to an interactive recording studio. Cultural icons associated with the band, such as works by Andy Warhol and fashions by Alexander McQueen and Ossie Clark, also will be on display. The exhibition will run in NYC’s Industria from Nov. 12 to March 12, with tickets on sale now …

MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK: Kings of Leon has just returned to the charts with its seventh studio album, Walls (aka We Are Like Love Songs), and the band also just premiered a music video for its latest single, “Around the World.” Catch up on all things Kings of Leon on its recently

revamped website, kingsofleon.com …

MINI BUZZ: The Courteeners’ fifth album is out this week. Mapping the Rendezvous will be the band’s first album since bringing in its new bassist, Joe Cross …

Northern Irish singer-songwriter Foy Vance will perform live at Ann Arbor’s Blind Pig on Oct. 25 …

Swedish pop band The Radio Dept. has released a new single called “Swedish Guns” as the preface to its upcoming full-length album, Running Out of Love, out later this week …

Jimmy Eat World’s new album is out this week too. Called Integrity Blues, it was produced by Paramore/M83 collaborator Justin Meldal-Johnsen …

Get ready to noodle-dance for hours ’n’ hours with The Yonder Mountain String Band at The Ark in Ann Arbor on Oct. 26 …

Country superstar and Nicole Kidman’s significant other Keith Urban will be in concert at Grand Rapids’ Van Andel Arena on Oct. 27 …

And hoping to become a significant part of your music collection are this week’s new releases … Empire of the Sun’s Two Vines … Giorgia’s Oronero … Helmet’s Dead to the World … and American Football’s American Football … and that’s the buzz for this week’s “Modern Rock.”

Comments, questions, rants, raves, suggestions on this column? Send ’em to Kristi at modernrocker@gmail.com.

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The Accountant, a thriller starring Ben Affleck (America’s least-favorite Batman) is a film that has no idea what it wants to be. Is it a standard thriller? A corporate espionage whodunit? An Autism message film? A dysfunctional family saga? After watching it you won’t be sure, and the sheer number of storylines thrown at you in the two-plus hours it takes to get through it will leave you bewildered and disappointed, yet also a little impressed.

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Wolff ’s latest job is finding missing funds at a robotics company run by the criminally underused John Lithgow.

This is also a film that forces me to confront my undying love and loyalty to Ben Affleck because, here, Ben Affleck is just not that great. He struggles to truly carry pictures these days, and when he does at least give it a try, he can’t avoid a certain vacantness that often can pass as depth.

When Wolff shows up to sniff out the problem, he works with a company accountant (Anna Kendrick) who is unsure of both the discrepancy she found in the books and how to deal with this odd accountant who has no interest in working with her.

In large part, his success and my personal adoration is symptomatic of the greater Leading Man Vacuum the last 20 years. We want those matinee idols even if they might sometimes prove false. (Now, Affleck as a director is another story, and sometimes I wish he would stick to that and stop getting in front of the camera).

Meanwhile, an up-and-coming treasury agent (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) is given an ultimatum by her boss (J.K. Simmons): Find this shadowy figure or your troubled teenage past will be exposed. I suppose this convention could work as a major plotline if it wasn’t almost immediately abandoned, or if all the characters involved weren’t so bland and uncomplicated.

Are we supposed to be rooting against Simmons? Turns out we aren’t. But even if that were the idea, 2015 Oscar winner Simmons’ character is so uninteresting, you find yourself getting angry by how underutilized he is.

So of course safe choices (which is Affleck to a T) are preferred over riskier casting. Yet when the role calls for the main character to reside somewhere on the autism spectrum, Affleck’s inherent dullness is not only not doing anyone any favors but also trivializing a very sensitive subject.

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unit. Oh — and he gets his missions from a woman with an English accent calling from a “RESTRICTED” number on his cell phone screen. It is never explained who he is taking his orders from, and I got the impression that the film is hoping you’ll be so taken with the story that you won’t ask. When he’s not helping Midwestern housewives turn their home jewelry businesses into convenient write-offs, he’s gallivanting around the world performing accounting feats for the world’s shadiest organizations, and naturally he’s drawn the attention of the U.S. government.

Ben Affleck is this accountant, see? And he’s a high-functioning autistic one at that. It’s a very real, heartbreaking disorder that is not well understood. And that some of its symptoms appear to the rest of us as strange, nearsuperhuman talents it’s easily co-opted to give a protagonist a shade of something “other” that puts him above the rest. That’s not fair for our societal acceptance of the disorder.

Affleck’s Christopher Wolff is high-functioning and great with numbers, but he’s also a trained assassin. How this disorder helps him excel at murder-for-hire is not really explained.

Wolff works as a small-town CPA to prevent exposure and lives in a mundane suburban ranch, but he keeps his hit-man arsenal (along with a few purloined priceless works of art) in an Airstream trailer hidden in a storage

Throughout all of this we get stunted flashbacks to Wolff ’s troubled childhood: his overbearing Army dad and tortured younger brother. There’s also a smooth-talking hitman, played by The Walking Dead’s Joe Bernthal, who sets his sights on vulnerable Kendrick. Our hero abandons all protocol to save her, and the story goes on from there. I bet you can even guess how it ends.

The Accountant isn’t a colossal failure, or even one that anyone will remember. It’s just overloaded, under-performed, and asks that the viewer take its word for everything. With a stronger lead actor, a tighter script, and about six fewer plotlines, it had the potential to be a smart thriller up there with Leon: The Professional. But as it stands right now, it’s like an unfunny Gross Pointe Blank fever dream.

And trust me, that is not a good thing.

Meg Weichman is a perma-intern at the Traverse City Film Festival and a trained film archivist.

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But in the end, having Tim Burton adapt a Burton-esque YA novel only felt like someone else trying to make a Burton-style movie.

His craftsmanship is there, but the bizarre joy, the demented delight, and the soulful scares, are gone. There’s no point of view, no panache. And that meaningful message of celebrating weirdness that young fans continue to gravitate towards rings painfully hollow here. The teen antiheroes at this story’s center are X-Men style mutants, known as “peculiars,” who possess special powers. Through some sort of time loop, average Florida teen Jake (Asa Butterfield) finds himself back in 1943, where he meets a girl as light as air, a boy who can reanimate the dead, and kids with super strength and pyrokinesis. They all have abilities, all operate under the watchful eye of quirky caretaker Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), and after 70 years living the same day over and over, all are thrilled to see Jake, who, it turns out, might not be as average as he thought. Uninspired as whole, there are still those glimmers of Burton charm, like the Ray Harryhausen-inspired stop-motion skeleton fight. And this is still one of the better YA series adaptations to come along.

Consequently, on the heels of a string of complete wayward failures like Big Eyes and Dark Shadows, this does seem like a step for Burton to find his own way back home.

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remake of John Sturges’ 1960 classic The Magnificent Seven. Did we need it? Probably not. But you know what we did need? A reminder for the American moviegoing public of just what it so loved about the former pinnacle of Hollywood production. And that The Magnificent Seven has so much darn fun doing it feels downright revolutionary. This is not some pretentious, revisionist, serious take on the genre.

Instead we get something that feels like a crowd-pleasing modern blockbuster with some nice western iconography added for a change. It’s thrilling, entertaining, and combines old-fashioned shoot-’em-up storytelling with slick action sequences that make for one heck of a merry outing. The Antoine Fuqua-helmed story of seven hired guns (including Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, and Ethan Hawke) defending a town from a cruel and callous businessman (Peter Sarsgaard) is escapist entertainment at its most primal and satisfying.

From the brutal opening where you see just how bad our baddie is, to the final, epic showdown, the bloodlust builds, and the tension doesn’t let go. This is the way an afternoon at the picture show should feel: a return to a bygone era of filmmaking with the right amount of updates to make it sing.

So by the time Elmer Bernstein’s iconic theme music finally plays over the retro-cool credits, you just may find yourself wanting to howl, “Yee haw!”

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: Your response to “Torn” really missed the mark. She is the 35-year-old woman whose friends and family think her 43-year-old boyfriend is lazy and not good enough for her and will end up living off her.

She has a full-time job with benefits, while he works part time and saves up when he wants to buy something. She says he supports her emotionally: “He…has my back to an unreasonable degree.” Yet, you contend that his lack of ambition may lead her to resent him. My advice to her: “If the relationship works for both of you, enjoy it. Nurture it. Keep the outside influences outside. And for crying out loud, woman, pull up your big-girl Underoos and tell your friends and family to take a deep breath and say a prayer to Saint Eff You.” — Better Idea

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: Your advice -- that “Torn” should just flip the bird at all of her boyfriend’s detractors — is the perfect solution for any woman who has a number of smelly, unsightly friends and family members cluttering up her life. I offer a similar redo of decluttering queen Marie “KonMari” Kondo’s advice that we should go through all our stuff and see what brings joy.

Yawn. The AlkonMari method: “Strike a match and run.”

But, wait, you say. He supports her emotionally. That, you insist, should be enough.

Should be. And though it’s reasonable to prefer that it would be, the late Albert Ellis, co-founder of cognitive-behavioral therapy, explained that “should” involves the irrational demand that the world manifest itself in an idealized way — the way it SHOULD be.

This keeps us from dealing with it as it is. For example, I should be writing this response to you in a villa in the south of France with servants, a helipad, and a moat. But here in the real world, unless I start moonlighting as a drug lord, I will continue writing from the cute shack in LA that I share with my dog and several million termites.

Likewise, in that magical land where children’s dentists send glitter instead of a bill, the perfect husband could be a sweet man who splits his time between a low-stress part-time job and chillaxing on the couch with a doob. But women evolved to have emotional mechanisms pushing them to seek men who are willing and able “providers,” and a man’s ambition is a cue for that. Women can’t just yell at their genes, “Hey, it’s 2016, and I’m the VP of a successful startup!” As anthropologist Donald Symons explains, changing any “complex adaptation,”

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like those driving mating psychology, takes “hundreds or thousands of generations.” This is why — as I explained to “Torn” — research finds that women married to a Mr. Mom often end up resenting him, making those marriages more likely to end in divorce.

Should “Torn” stay or go? That actually isn’t for you or me to say, because our values aren’t her values and what works for us may not work for her. That’s why I suggested she mull over the potential issues -- over time -- and make an informed decision about whether to go all in with her Laid-Back Larry. Yeah, I know -love should “conquer all.” And yes, in a perfect world, we could respond to utility company disconnect notices with a sweet note: “Please don’t shut my lights off! XOXO!”

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: There she is crying, and you’re rubbing her back, all “Baby, that’s terrible.”

And then you duck out of the room and dictate everything you can remember into your phone.

Um, no. Think of the details of your girlfriend’s life like some stranger’s lunch. The fact that their cheeseburger is within your reach doesn’t mean you get to grab it and be all “Mine! Yummeee!” As Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren explained in an 1890 Harvard Law Review article on privacy, unless somebody is a public figure, they have a right to privacy, meaning the right to control who gets to know what about their persona and private life.

You cross the line from fiction writer to privacy invader when a character is recognizable as a particular person. It isn’t that you can’t use anything at all from another person’s life. Publishing expert Jane Friedman says you can create a composite character “with traits and characteristics culled from several people.” In other words, steal from the many instead of “the one.” Remember, it’s called an “intimate relationship” because it’s supposed to be between two people — not two people and the 8,423 others one of them gave their novel away to on Goodreads.

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1 Language in which many websites are written 5 Favreau’s “Swingers” costar 11 Internet connection problem 14 “Summertime” from “Porgy and Bess,” e.g.

15 Where tigers may be housed 16 Notre Dame coach Parseghian 17 Vessel even smaller than the one for shots?

19 Airline based in Stockholm 20 Marching band event 21 Capulet murdered by Romeo [spoiler alert!]

23 Prepare lettuce, perhaps 24 Community org. with merit badges 26 “Let It Go” singer 27 Gallagher of Oasis 28 Badtz-___ (penguin friend of Hello Kitty) 30 She voices Dory 31 Bow (out) 32 Component of a restaurant’s meat-eating challenge?

34 Reveal accidentally 35 “I like 5 p.m. better than 11 p.m. for news”?

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47 Hawk’s high hangout 48 Big baking potatoes 50 It may be printed upside-down 52 Nyan ___ 53 What the other three theme entries do?

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8 Wu-Tang member known as “The Genius” 9 Ground-cover plant 10 Inquisitive 11 French explorer who named Louisiana 12 Body of water between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan 13 It’s filled at the pump 18 Just a ___ (slightly) 22 Sing like Ethel Merman 23 Nestle ___-Caps 24 Bond, before Craig 25 Naturally bright 28 Sole syllable spoken by the geek on “American Horror Story: Freak Show” (and Beaker on “The Muppets”) 29 Working 30 Cable channel launched in 1979 32 Arcade machine opening 33 “Vaya con ___” 35 Spiral-shaped 36 Get rusty 37 Some newsbreaks 38 Certain allergic reaction 39 Never existed 40 Coiffures 41 Rock worth unearthing 44 Windham Hill Records genre 46 “Rubbish!”

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(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During this Halloween season, you have cosmic permission to be a bigger, bolder, and extra beguiling version of yourself. I trust you will express your deep beauty with precise brilliance and imagine your future with superb panache and wander wherever the hell you feel like wandering. It’s time to be stronger than your fears and wilder than your trivial sins. Halloween costume suggestion: the superhero version of yourself.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you

to fantasize about what your four greatgrandmothers and four great-grandfathers may have been doing on November 1, 1930.

What? You have no idea how to begin? You don’t even know their names? If that’s the case, I hope you’ll remedy your ignorance. Your ability to create the future you want requires you to learn more about where and whom you came from. Halloween costume suggestion: your most interesting ancestor.

for every word he uttered. I’m hoping your speech will pack a comparable punch in the coming days. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that your persuasiveness should be at a peak. You’ll have an exceptional ability to say what you mean and mean what you say. Use this superpower with flair and precision! Halloween costume suggestion: ancient Greek orator Demosthenes; Martin Luther King Jr.; Virginia Woolf; Sojourner Truth; rapper MC Lyte, Winston Churchill.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s the prosperity-

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): At any one

time, over two million frozen human embryos are stored in tissue banks throughout Europe and North America. When the time is right, their owners retrieve them and bring them to term. That’s the first scenario I invite you to use as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks. Here’s a second scenario: Scotch whiskey is a potent mind-altering substance. Any particular batch must mature for at least three years, and may be distilled numerous times. There are currently 20 million barrels of the stuff mellowing in Scottish warehouses. And what do these two scenarios have to do with you? It’s time to tap into resources that you’ve been saving in reserve -- that haven’t been ripe or ready until now. Halloween costume suggestions: a woman who’s nine months pregnant; a blooming rose or sunflower; ripe fruit.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To create a bottle

of Cabernet Sauvignon, a winemaker needs about 700 grapes. Compare this process with rain-making. When water vapor that’s high in the sky becomes dense enough, it condenses into tiny pearls of liquid called cloud droplets. If the humidity rises even further, a million of these babies might band together to form a single raindrop that falls to earth. And what does this have to do with your life? I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will have both an affinity and a skill for processes that resemble wine-making and rain-making. You’ll need a lot of raw material and energetic effort to produce a relatively small marvel -- but that’s exactly as it should be.

Halloween costume suggestion: a raindrop or bottle of wine.

CANCER June 21-July 22): Some Brazilians

eat the heads of piranhas in the belief they’re aphrodisiacs. In Zimbabwe, women may make strategic use of baboon urine to enhance their allure. The scientific name for Columbia’s leaf-cutter ant is hormiga culona, translated as “fatassed ant.” Ingesting the roasted bodies of these critters is thought to boost sexual desire. Since you’re in a phase when tapping in to your deepest erotic longings will be healthy and educational, you may want to adopt elements of the aforementioned love drugs to create your Halloween costume. Here are other exotic aphrodisiacs from around the world that you might be inspired by: asparagus, green M&Ms, raw oysters, wild orchids, horny goat weed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you know how

to repair a broken zipper or patch a hole in your bicycle tire? Are you familiar with the art of caulking a bathtub or creating a successful budget? Can you compose a graceful thank-you note, cook a hearty soup from scratch, or overcome your pride so as to reconcile with an ally after an argument? These are the kinds of tasks I trust you will focus on in the coming weeks. It’s time to be very practical and concrete. Halloween costume suggestion: Mr. or Ms. Fix-It.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the film Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger played a benevolent android who traveled here from the future. As a strong, silent action hero, he didn’t need to say much. In fact, he earned $30,000

building phase of your cycle. Let’s celebrate!

Let’s brainstorm! Are there rituals you can create to stimulate the financial lobes of your imagination, thereby expediting your cash flow?

Here are a few ideas: 1. Glue a photo of yourself on a $20 bill.

2. Make a wealth shrine in your home. Stock it with symbols of specific thrills you can buy for yourself when you have more money. 3. Halloween costume suggestions: a giant bar of gold, a banker carrying a briefcase full of big bills, Tony Stark, Lady Mary Crawley, Jay Gatsby, Lara Croft, the Yoruban wealth goddess Ajé.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I won’t offer

you the cliché “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Instead, I’ll provide alternatives. How about this, from the video game Portal: “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! Say, ‘I don’t want your damn lemons!’” Or you could try this version, from my friend Barney: “When life gives you lemons, draw faces on them like Tom Hanks did on his volleyball in the movie Cast Away, and engage them in sexy philosophical conversation.” Or consider this Brazilian proverb: “When life gives you lemons, make caipirinhas.”

(Caipirinha is Brazil’s national cocktail.) Suggestion: Play around with these themes to create your Halloween costume.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All of us are creators and destroyers. It’s fun and healthy to add fresh elements to our lives, but it’s also crucial to dispose of things that hurt and distort us. Even your body is a hotbed of both activities, constantly killing off old cells and generating new ones. But in my understanding, you are now in a phase when there’s far more creation than destruction. Enjoy the exalted buzz! Halloween costume suggestions: a creator god or goddess, like the Greeks’ Gaia or Prometheus; Rainbow-Snake from the Australian Aborigines; Unkulunkulu from the Zulus; or Coyote, Raven, or Spider Grandmother from indigenous North American tribes.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) In 1938, a chef

named Ruth Wakefield dreamed up a brilliant invention: chocolate chip cookies. She sold her recipe to the Nestlé company in return for one dollar and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Maybe she was happy with that arrangement, but I think she cheated herself. And so I offer her action as an example of what you should NOT do.

During the next ten months, I expect you will come up with many useful innovations and intriguing departures from the way things have always been done. Make sure you get full value in return for your gifts! Halloween costume ideas: Thomas Edison, Marie Curry, Hedy Lamarr, Leonardo da Vinci, Temple Grandin, George Washington Carver, Mark Zuckerberg.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Speaking on behalf

of the cosmic powers, I authorize you to escape dull realities and go rambling through the frontier.

Feel free to fantasize twice as hard and wild as you normally do. Avoid literalists and realists who think y o u should be more like them. This is not a time to fuss over exacting details, but rather to soar above the sober nonsense and see as far as you can. You have permission to exult in the joys of wise innocence. Halloween costume suggestions: bohemian poet, mad scientist, carefree genius, brazen explorer.

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