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At Least One Degree Off Charles Knapp of Maple City, (Letters, June 1) claims that there are no vaccines against a virus.

He also contends that social distancing won’t help and testing is a waste of time. He is entitled to his opinions — stupid though they may be — but his “facts” are wrong. There are MANY successful vaccinations against viral diseases, starting with smallpox. Measles, mumps, rubella, rubeola, Hepatitis A, and Hepatitis B are a few.

So it is possible that vaccination against COVID-19 is sometime in the future. In the meantime, I will continue to stay home, stay away from others, wear a mask out in the world, and wash my hands. I don’t want to die anytime soon.

Meanwhile, I’d suggest that he try listening to the educated and informed opinions of Dr. Fauci and Gov. Whitmer. I’d follow her advice any time, and I am convinced that she has saved a lot of lives with her orders.

Linnea J Priest, MD (retired pediatrician and radiologist), Traverse City Check, Mate!

Isiah Smith’s column last week (“Chess in the Time of Corona,” June 8 issue), with its wonderful analogy of the game of chess, rises refreshingly above the fray to make a very important statement. Thank you, Isiah!

Ralph Cerny, Traverse City When Do Americans March?

In the segregated South of 1959, a nineyear-old black boy named Ron dared to commit civil disobedience in order to check out several books about airplanes from a Lake City, North Carolina, public library. During that era, no blacks were allowed to check out books, perhaps in part, because ignorant blacks had long been considered to be less troublesome and certainly less competitive than educated ones.

After first being ignored by the librarian, Ron jumped right up on the counter and again asked to check out his selected airplane books.

In an act of great courage, the librarian broke with long-term practice, went to her office, and returned with Ron’s very own library card.

How many thousands of black children living in the deep south in the ’50s and before had their literary inquisitiveness dampened by hundreds of librarians who were not willing to risk their jobs by “marching” from the front counter to their office to prepare a library card for a black child?

Marching takes an even special kind of courage today, under the cloud of COVID19. But without our long history of protest marches, there would not be an America that is still envied by the world.

So where do Americans march? They march on boot camp parade grounds, and sometimes they march on city streets. And then there was that nine-year-old black boy who marched to the front counter of a South Carolina public library and later became Astronaut Ronald McNair, who perished in 1986 aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

My letter to the editor was inspired, in part, by a beautifully illustrated child’s book “Ron’s Special Mission” co-authored by Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden.

Bob Ross, Pellston We Can’t Hear You Three policemen who stood beside the officer who murdered George Floyd were

charged with aiding and abetting murder.

Republican senators who have stood silently by the decimation of democracy under our current president should also be charged with aiding and abetting. Silence is violence.

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Four Winns.........................................................10 On The Hunt....................................................13 Dire Straits Fire Up............................................................15 Midland, Michigan, suffered a catastrophic Dog Day..........................................................18 flood that affected thousands of people, Dreamboats.....................................................19 Lou Ann McKiimmy, Rapid City

properties, and businesses after a nearly century-old poorly maintained dam failed.

About 2,500 Midland County homes and businesses with losses totaling nearly $175 million have been reported. Of that, 115 are considered destroyed, and 790 have major damage. Wixom and Sanford Lakes, now drained, leave surrounding lakefront properties virtually unsaleable.

Damage assessments of over $34 million have been submitted to the governor’s office. A request for a presidential disaster declaration has been submitted.

This catastrophe was predicted and completely preventable. The privately owned dam was 96 years old and had suffered years of maintenance neglect. What can we learn to prevent another predictable and preventable catastrophe of even greater proportions?

The Great Lakes contain one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water, provide drinking water to 40 million people, and support the economy of northern Michigan through fishing, tourism, and transport.

Enbridge, a Canadian oil company, owns the 67-year-old Line 5 pipeline. It transports oil under the Mackinac Straits. Enbridge has a proven record of deception and pipeline leaks jeopardizing Michigan lands and waterways.

Line 5 is a predictable and preventable danger threatening all that is Pure Michigan. Shut it down now!

Brenda Rusch, Traverse City Stoking Discord & Division Traverse City Chief of Police Jeff O’Brien reported to the City Commission on June 8 that Traverse City police and the FBI had uncovered a plot by white supremacists, posing as Antifa, to spread fake rumors that the Black Lives Matter event at the Open Space would turn violent.

These fake rumors gave local radio host and Second Amendment advocate Randy Bishop a pretext to organize an “Open Carry” rally at the exact place and time as the Black Lives Matter rally. Bishop invited right-wing groups like the Michigan Militia and the Proud Boys. He finally canceled the event, thanks to a chat with Chief of Police O’Brien.

Earlier this year, Grand Traverse County Commissioner Ron Clous invited Bishop, an Antrim County resident, to a Grand Traverse County Board of Commissioners meeting to press for a Second Amendment “sanctuary” resolution, which four commissioners — Chair Rob Hentschel, Vice Chair Clous, Brad Jewett, and Gordie LaPointe — passed, despite objections by large numbers of county residents and the other three county commissioners.

Grand Traverse County is known for its gracious hospitality. I believe that most of us want peace, not discord, and unity, not division. We’re not perfect, and there is a great deal to do, but we don’t need threats of intimidation and assault rifles openly carried at a peaceful demonstration.

As voters, we need to decide whether we want a local government that’s dominated by four commissioners who would rather pass unnecessary and divisive resolutions such as the Second Amendment resolution, or do we want to make our government more effective, open and responsive? Let’s vote them out in November.

John DeSpelder, Traverse City

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Correction: We inadvertently transposed words in the June 8 issue letter “Public Failings,” from Alice Littlefield of Omena. The first sentence of her letter should have read “The past two months have provided us with important lessons about the failings of the popular belief that the private sector does everything better than the public sector.” Littlefield, who caught our mistake, went on to describe how neglect of the public sector has led to failures in dealing with the pandemic, inability to adequately address exploding unemployment rates, and failure to repair crumbling infrastructure. As she notes: “The much-praised private sector does very little to meet these problems. In the case of the flooding around Midland, it was caused by the failure of a privately owned dam that had been cited for years as inadequate, yet the owners did nothing to correct the problem. Will they pay for the massive damages?

Of course not. The private sector only does what is profitable for them most of the time. The lesson is that we need a robust public sector to deal with massive public problems like pandemics, economic catastrophes, and crumbling infrastructure. Hope that clarifies the intent of my letter.”

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top ten Virtual Poetry Workshop Coming to Leelanau Leelanau County libraries have decided not to host in person events this summer, but they do plan to hold a series of virtual get-togethers.

The first will be a virtual poetry workshop on Zoom with poet, professor, and Leelanau-enthusiast Mary Ann Samyn from 10am to noon June 20.

Samyn said she hopes she has designed the workshop to reflect the unusual time in which we find ourselves.

“There’s a lot going on these days,” Samyn said. “Both in the world around us and, no doubt, inside us. I’ve always been attracted to poems that try to incorporate all of these things: what’s on the news (and what doesn’t make it there); the mundane (and seemingly mundane) moments of our day; our private memories, fears, and wishes.”

Samyn, a long-time visitor to Leelanau, is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, including “My Life in Heaven,” winner of the 2012 FIELD Prize.

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good fortune cruise The Mackinaw City-based Star Line, home of the high-speed hydro-jet rooster-tail boats, has added a pirate ship to its fleet. Starting June 19, the Good Fortune will cruise families between Mackinaw City and Mackinac Island five times daily, plus offer a nightly all-ages sail, complete with water cannons for kids and a bar for adults, under the Mackinac Bridge. Learn more at mackinacferry.com.

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There’s no shortage of great barbeque up here, but if you’re gonna DIY it, you’ve got to get grilling in true Northern style. First, get a package of Dock Side Party Store’s turkey/pork bratwurst, then, do like owner Matt Hunter does: Boil the brats in beer until almost done, and then — only then — do you toast ’em up on the grill. The sausages’ seasoning, pepper, sage, onion, mace, and celery makes the them savory and tasty; the pork makes them oh-so moist; and the beer boil keeps them that way — no matter beer you use. “Fosters is my favorite,” Hunter tells Northern Express. “But I use just about anything — Natty Daddy, whatever I’ve got … it’s all good.” Find the brats and the beer at The Dock Side, 13418 SW Bay Shore Dr., in Traverse City.

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the deviant’s war

At the end of World War II, nearly 1 million Americans were persecuted on the basis of sexual preference. Among them was a man named Frank Kameny. A rising astronomer for the Army Map Service, Kameny, along with countless others, was unceremoniously dismissed from his position after the Pentagon pegged him as a ‘deviant’ in 1957. Frank wasn’t the first — or the last — to be fired; but he was the first to fight back. In his highly-anticipated biography, “The Deviant’s War,” Harvard historian Eric Cervini follows Frank’s activist journey from prosecution to the podium as he slowly assembles the modern Gay Rights movement. Both diligently researched and discerningly written, “The Deviant’s War” is the story of a community condemned — and an ideal read for Pride Month.

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Coalition Seeks Alternatives to Eviction

A temporary moratorium on evictions in Michigan, created during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis, expired June 11.

Worried that a flood of homelessness will follow, human services organizations across the region have come together to offer help and to urge landlords to seek alternatives before forcing tenants out onto the street.

The human services community for Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix/Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manistee, and Missaukee/Wexford counties, along with each county’s district court, have collaborated to develop resources for landlords and tenants to prevent evictions whenever possible. These local financial, legal, and mediation services lists can be found at: https://www.nwmichcoc.com/eviction-resources.html.

Stuff we love Adding invasive, self-cloning crabs to least-wanted species list Adding invasive, self-cloning crabs to Michigan’s list of least-wanted species The very reason marbled crayfish — aka marmorkrebs — have become so popular among aquarium enthusiasts is the same reason Michigan just added them to its list of prohibited species: They reproduce by cloning. Yup, each known specimen of Procambarus virginalis is a genetically identical female that can produce up to 700 eggs per reproductive cycle — no need for fertilization, thankyouverymuch. To prevent the potential damage these gals could do to our ponds, lakes, and streams, the state now prohibits possessing, introducing, importing, or selling them. Have one, or think you see one in the wild? Don’t flush; freeze her. Then email Lucas Nathan, DNR aquatic invasive species coordinator, at NathanL@Michigan.gov.

For more information and identification tips, visit Michigan.gov/invasives.

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The Mac is Sunk; Huron to Mac Still Sailing Late last week, the Chicago Yacht Club and the Race to Mackinac (CYCRTM) Committee announced the cancellation of the 112th running of “The Mac,” the annual 333-mile sailboat race from Chicago to Mackinac Island. The race, scheduled to begin this year on July 18, hasn’t been canceled since 1920, when pressures from the first World War intervened. Hope remains, however, for another summer sailing tradition, the annual Bayview Mackinac Race. As of press time, the 96th race from Port Huron’s Bayview Yacht Club remains a go for July 11 — but with some significant changes: 1) Far fewer boats are participating — about half the usual 300+.

2) The race’s Cove Island Course, in which boats enter Canadian waters, will be closed; only the U.S.-adjacent Shore Course can be sailed (due to pandemic-responsive border restrictions).

And 3) The raging sailing after-party at the Mackinac Island finish line is called off. (Kinda makes the big boat-race news before COVID-19 — that the race had dropped Bell’s Brewery, a sponsor for over a decade, in favor of Detroit’s Atwater Brewery — hardly worth a splash, eh?)

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bottoms up Big Lake’s Blood Orange Haze In an issue designed to celebrate beaches, boats, and barbecue, it seems fitting we highlight a summer sipper out of Big Lake Brewing. Characterized as a “Juicy New England IPA,” Big Lake’s Blood Orange Haze didn’t so much taste of New England, but it sure as heck gave us a nose and mouthful of bright, sweet, and juicy blood oranges. What followed was a bubbly yet buttery flavor with a lightly bitter edge and the earthy, piney finish you’d expect from an IPA. An absolutely easy drinker for a day at the beach — or a pint on the patio at Charlevoix’s Bridge Street Tap Room, where it’s on tap now. 202 Bridge St., bridgestreettaproom.com

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THE PRIVILEGE OF ASSUMPTION spectator

by Stephen Tuttle George Floyd’s grotesque killing wasn’t the only reason for the explosion of anger. It was just the last spark on a fuse that’s been burning a very long time.

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We say we understand and we sympathize, then we focus on the small group lighting fires and looting. We call them names and point to the extremists involved on the left and the right. We observe, somewhat befuddled from the blissful homogeneity of northern Michigan, where race isn’t much of an issue because there isn’t much race.

Traverse City is 93 percent white in a county that’s 96 percent white in a region that’s whiter still.

The reality is we white folks don’t have a clue. We can’t. No matter how supportive we claim to be, no matter how many marches and protests we attend, we’ll nev-

the police and told them you were threatening her life because you asked her to leash their dog in a park requiring dogs to be leashed. Or you were followed by armed vigilantes while out for a jog.

Or that you were shopping, only to be shadowed by store employees assuming you’re a shoplifter. Or you were hauled into a store’s security office despite your having a receipt for every item. Or you were arrested and handcuffed for trying to get into your own home after you accidentally locked yourself out.

All of that has happened to African Americans in the recent past. Now imagine any of it happening to a white person.

That’s the white privilege, the privilege of assumption, and we get it every single day.

The assumption that we are not lawbreakers, or dangerous, is part of our privilege.

It’s our normal, so how could we possibly understand anything else? We don’t. er have a clue. It’s not fair to claim all white folks are racists, but it is fair to suggest we’re ignorant of the day-to-indignities of racism because we do not now, and never will, live them.

Yet, many of us recoil at the notion there is any such thing as “white privilege.” That reaction simply chooses to ignore the data. We are more likely to be hired, more likely to get a raise, more likely to be promoted, more likely to be offered management training, less likely to be pulled over for a minor traffic violation, less likely to be ticketed for a traffic violation ... .It’s a pretty long list of advantages we enjoy and disadvantages we avoid.

We see the videos of cops seemingly gone rogue, mostly in big cities, and wonder how such things happen. We turn our heads, secure in the knowledge the vast majority of law enforcement personnel do a fine job, which is true. It allows us to ignore the fact some entire departments have behaved so poorly toward minorities that they required Department of Justice intervention.

Even that is just part of it. It runs deeper still.

Imagine the police being called because you were trying to use the pool in the apartment complex where you live. Or you’re refused the purchase of an expensive handbag because it was assumed your credit card is stolen. Or you’re told to pay in advance at a restaurant because it is assumed you will eat and run. Or the police were called, accusing your college-aged daughter of trespassing because she was resting her head on a table in the common area of her own dorm. Or someone called

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It would be assumed that we belonged at that pool, that the credit card was ours, that we would pay for our meal, that our daughter belonged in that dorm, that we can ask someone to leash their dog, that we can jog most anywhere, that we’re not shoplifters, and we’d be asked if we needed help if we locked ourselves out of the house.

The assumption that we are not lawbreakers, or dangerous, is part of our privilege. It’s our normal, so how could we possibly understand anything else? We don’t. And no matter how many platitudes we mouth about addressing the core issues or having a real dialogue, we’ll do neither.

We don’t understand, or aren’t yet willing to acknowledge, the core issues, so we’re hardly in a position to fix them.

And another dialogue? Really? Please, no congressional hearings with white people reading cloying speeches written by some white staffer.

Police defunding or disbanding sound like overreactions with potentially unpleasant unintended consequences, a kind of wehave-to-do-something approach. Police reform legislation now percolating in the U.S. House will never get through the Senate or past President Trump’s veto pen. The social programs now being suggested all start with a top-down mentality; we’ll decide what’s needed and who needs it.

We don’t need a dialogue or hastily concocted reforms. What we need is a monologue — one where we do the listening. Just listening.

Maybe if we can absorb even a little of the very real anguish, it would be a starting point from which we can then move forward.

Crime & Rescue “NEED TO BE A WARRIOR” A Traverse City man was arrested for holding a knife to the neck of his young son.

The 12-year-old’s mother called 911 to report that her son had been assaulted on May 3.

The day before, Michigan State Police said, the boy’s father had grabbed his son by the hair, put a knife to his throat, and threatened him. Previously, the man allegedly told the boy that he “needed to be a warrior.” According to the account, the father wanted his son to fight him. The boy’s sister was there and called her mother to ask for a ride home.

An investigation led to an arrest warrant for 39-year-old Roland Louis Hachey, who was taken into custody at a friend’s house without incident.

Hachey faces charges of felonious assault with a dangerous weapon and domestic violence. He was arraigned on June 3 and released on bond.

DRUNK MAN ON PHONE CAUSES CRASH A 62-year-old Ann Arbor man who had been drinking and was looking up directions on his cell phone missed a stop sign and drove into the path of an SUV driven by a 65-year-old Suttons Bay man.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies and Elmwood Fire and Rescue responded the accident, which occurred at East Fouch and Bugai roads around 8pm June 7.

Although neither driver was seriously injured, deputies determined that the driver from Ann Arbor was intoxicated and arrested him for drunk driving.

MAN FOUND DEAD IN LAKE A 71-year-old man who went fishing in Lake Charlevoix was discovered floating in the water.

Charlevoix County Sheriff’s deputies responded at 3pm June 4 to an area of the lake between Oyster Bay and Ironton, where another boater had spotted the man’s body and waited until help arrived.

The Coast Guard was called to retrieve Roscommon resident Matthew Leone, who was not wearing a life jacket. An autopsy was ordered to determine the cause of death, according to a press release.

Investigators learned that Leone had left home the previous evening to go fishing. His truck and boat trailer were found at the Dutchman’s Bay boat launch north of East Jordan in South Arm Township. His boat was later found washed up against shoreline rocks near Oyster Bay.

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TWO ARRESTED FOR DRUGS An undercover investigation ended with the arrest of two Indian River residents on drug charges.

Straits Area Narcotics Enforcement raided an apartment and discovered heroin, methamphetamine, and cash. Undercover agents had purchased drugs in late May from two suspects, leading to the raid.

Brien Michael Sullivan, 40, and Nicole Jane Mahar, 22, were taken to the Cheboygan County jail to face charges. Sullivan faces charges of second-offense delivery of heroin and maintaining a drug house. Mahar is accused of second-offense conspiracy to deliver heroin.

In a press release, police said they expect the investigation will lead to the arrest of more people.

MAN SURVIVES PLANE CRASH A floatplane crashed on takeoff in Wexford County, but the pilot and sole occupant survived.

Cadillac Police officers, Northflight EMS, and Cadillac Fire personnel responded to the county airport at 7pm June 4 after a report of a plane crash with unknown injuries.

They found the pilot, a 49-year-old Pierson man, in the hanger. He had been able to exit the crashed plane on his own. His plane was found in a field south of the runway.

Police said the single-engine fixed-wing floatplane was being towed so that it could take off and that the plane had drifted into a trailer tire as it left the ground, causing the plane to crash.

The pilot was taken to Munson Cadillac for non-life-threatening injuries. The FAA is expected to conduct an investigation.

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THE PANDEMIC, OR HOW PEOPLE ARE LIKE BUTTERFLIES opinion

BY Kathleen Stocking When did I become more interested in reading about the plague than daily dealings with it? The internet mediates all information. The telephone is part of every conversation. I have not seen a friend faceto-face in so long I can’t remember what it’s like. I am sick and tired of my hot and germ-infested blue-green surgical mask, dangling from one ear when I’m not wearing it, and the pervasive smell of hand sanitizer. Please God, when I die, let me not smell like hand sanitizer.

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It’s early June in the year 2020 on the northern shores of Lake Michigan. The stores are starting to open again, but there will be no National Cherry Festival in Traverse City in July, no Blissfest in Cross Village this August, and no Leelanau Uncaged in September.

The entire world is in the midst of a plague.

Over 100,000 people have died in America and almost four times that world-wide, with more predicted.

These are the ordinary people, the unsung heroes; like the factory workers in Pennsylvania working around the clock, sleeping on the floor of the factory, to make protective gear for first responders; like the “far-flung collaboration of scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs” cited in The New York Times, who figured out almost overnight how to make and mass produce ventilators.

It’s early June 2020, but in my mind, it’s late summer, mid-August 2019 out on South Fox Island. I’m lying on my back in the lacey shade of towering maples. Dunes range up the hill behind my head, as soft-looking as caramel-sweetened whipped cream. Every island is a tiny earth, and South Fox Island, lapped by the rhythmic turquoise-andindigo waters of Lake Michigan, may be one of the tiniest.

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My eyes are half-closed because all around me is the little-flashing-mirrors lake light.

I’m looking at some orange leaves on the maple trees, vaguely thinking fall has come early. The blurry orange leaves, seen through my eyelash veil, are fluttering slightly in a soft breeze. It’s not until I see a piece of orange and black glide down on an air current, that I know it’s not a leaf but a butterfly.

What does the future hold? It holds us.

My daughter is an end-of-life care nurse in Connecticut with coronavirus patients. She has had the virus and survived and is back at work in her hospital, her businessman husband working from home to take care of their children.

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South Fox Island isn’t easy to get to. For years there was no boat. People borrowed a boat from Andy Thomas. Then they found an old commercial fishing boat and restored it, a work in progress, and started to restore the lighthouse, also a work in progress. The South Fox Island Lighthouse was necessary when the shoals around the island were not something one could check out with a depth finder. Many lives were saved by lighthouse keepers and their crews, and the restoration of the lighthouse is being done to honor that work and the lives saved.

Around me, volunteers work to restore the 1867 lighthouse. There’s the retired pharmacologist, Phil von Voightlander, who that morning had explained to me the curvature of the earth. Right now, he’s cleaning the boathouse. A retired oral surgeon, Joerg Rothenberger, an inventor and polymath from Switzerland, is measuring the depth of the water in the shoals around the island with high-tech equipment. A graphic artist, Cathy Allchin, is helping Andy Thomas, an accomplished craftsman, install a giant door, twice the size of both of them. There’s a Smithsonian bee scientist, David Russell, off in the bushes somewhere exploring the island’s insect population.

I sit up slowly. I’m surrounded by butterflies.

They are in the trees. They are in the air. They are on the low-lying bushes and wild asters.

Monarch butterflies. They are migrating, a million little delicate fluttering pieces of life, resting before heading out over the lake to the mainland.

Monarchs migrate 3,000 miles at about three miles an hour, about the pace of a jogger.

They don’t all survive. There are high winds, rain, snow, pesticides, helicopter propellers.

Some go to the mountains of Michoacan, to ancient majestic forests northwest of Mexico City, where two scientists were recently murdered, presumably by people taking out the trees. The flight of the butterflies was miraculous forever, and now, like the evolution and existence of human beings, too, it’s becoming more and more fraught with difficulties.

What does the future hold? It holds us.

The spirit of helping and caring for one’s community, alive on South Fox Island, exists in us. We are the people, and we will not quit.

Like the Monarch Butterflies journeying thousands of miles through possible storms, to a place that may have no trees for them to rest in, we are not quitting. We are the people, and we will do as much as we can for as long as we can, whether making ventilators, sleeping on the factory floor to make protective gear, creating street festivals to share joy, or restoring lighthouses to honor the past. We are here, and we are not going away, not anytime soon.

Kathleen Stocking, called a “seer” by The New York Times in 1991 for her first book of essays about nature and people on the Leelanau Peninsula, has taught writing in California homeless shelters and in El Salvador, served two tours in the Peace Corps, and now lives in Traverse City.

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Cheeky Alex Masmej of Paris, France, is a 23-year-old with a strong sense of selfworth. So strong, in fact, that he sold shares of himself via an initial coin offering, or ICO, in April. Masmej sold tokens, called $ALEX, to 30 investors, raising more than $20,000, which he plans to use to move to San Francisco. Investors in $ALEX reportedly receive a share of any money he makes over the next three years, up to $100,000; a vote on some of his life decisions; and promotion from Masmej on his social media channels, Decrypt reported. (He has a whopping 3,200 followers on Twitter and 517 on Instagram.)

“Since there are no legal contracts,” Masmej said, “I can technically run away with the money.” But he won’t because “it will hurt my reputation amongst those very people I need help from. It’s more likely that I just don’t make money and pay back very little.”

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Double Trouble Some folks never learn. On May 9, a New Hampshire State Police trooper pulled over Nicole George, 31, in Newington.

George was driving 90 mph in a 50 mph zone; after the traffic stop, she went on. But only 13 minutes later, a second trooper clocked her doing 111 mph in a 65 mph zone in Rochester. The first trooper responded to assist at the second traffic stop, NECN reported, and she was arrested for reckless operation. However, after her arrest, authorities found about 40 grams of fentanyl and some methamphetamine in George’s possession; they seized her Honda Pilot, and they suspect criminal activity was the reason for her big hurry.

Priorities As rioters looted and vandalized stores and other businesses in Seattle on May 30, one woman, wearing a cloth mask and a backpack, was caught on news cameras calmly walking out of the Cheesecake Factory with a whole cheesecake, adorned with undisturbed strawberries on top. A KIRO news crew captured the footage as others threw bottles of liquor and broke windows.

“With everything going on, sometimes you just have to take a moment to treat yourself,” one Twitter user commented.

Oops Dang those tricky Zoom calls. As at least 12 government officials met online on May 29 in Mexico, Sen. Martha Lucia Micher thought her camera was off and changed her top as her colleagues looked on. Micher, 66, issued an apology, saying: “In one part of the session, without realizing and while the camera of my computer was on, I got changed showing my naked torso. ... Thanks to a call from I Am Not Dead Yet The BBC reported that on June 2, railroad workers became alarmed after spotting a pair of human feet and “no signs of life” near the Chafford Hundred station in Essex, England. The British Transport Police reported that officers who rushed to the scene “found a man in his late 30s enjoying some nude sunbathing.” A spokeswoman for

Network Rail punned: “Let me lay it bare, the railway is not a place to sunbathe. Please keep away from the tracks.” Another spokesperson said the episode was “not as uncommon as you might think.” The sunbather received “words of advice” but no citation.

The Foreign Press Police in Madrid, Spain, caught up with a wanted criminal in late May, AFP reported.

Nacho Vidal, a porn star, was charged with manslaughter relating to the death of fashion photographer Jose Luis Abad last year at Vidal’s country residence. According to authorities, Abad died after inhaling “venom of the bufo alvarius toad” during the “celebration of a mystic ritual.” The toad, which is native to Mexico and the southwestern U.S., secretes venom containing a powerful psychedelic substance. Police said Vidal and his cohorts have lured people who are “easily influenced, vulnerable or who were seeking help for illnesses or addictions” to the rituals on a regular basis. One of Vidal’s relatives and an employee were also arrested.

Unclear on the Concept Julie Wheeler of Beaver, West Virginia, pleaded guilty in February to health care fraud and faced up to 10 years in prison.

So she and her husband, Rodney Wheeler, apparently cooked up a plan to keep her out of jail: On May 31, Rodney and the couple’s 17-year-old son reported that Julie had fallen from the Grandview overlook at the New River Gorge National River.

Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies and rescue crews began a search for her, including use of a helicopter and rappelling into a jagged canyon, to no avail.

After three days of searching, however, Julie turned up -- hiding in a closet in her home, WVNS reported. Now, in addition to the fraud conviction, Julie and Rodney will face multiple charges of conspiracy and giving false information to West Virginia State Police. “It is hard to hide at home,” remarked U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart.

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The Way the World Works Lowering the Bar reported on June 3 that the divorce rate in Saudi Arabia has climbed by as much as 30% during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a referenced report, at least some of those divorces are the result of women finding out that their husbands are secretly also married to another woman, an apparently not uncommon practice in that country.

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That Time Four Guys Named Winn Decided to Start a Business

The unlikely story of how Cadillac became home to the nation’s third largest boat builder.

By Patrick Sullivan John Winn’s grandmother bought a boat when he was a child, a used 15-footer with an outboard engine big enough to pull people on waterskis.

Boating got into John Winn’s blood. He said he knew then that boating would be his life.

“And it just went from there. Then we started building hydroplanes in the basement in the winter, and we’d race ’em in the summers. And I knew I was going to be in the boat business growing up,” Winn said.

“In fact, when I graduated from college — I went to Western Michigan [University] — I didn’t even interview with any companies other than boat companies.”

In 1975, John Winn; his dad, Bill Sr.; and brothers, Bill Jr. and Charlie, bought a struggling boat company in Cadillac and launched a new brand: Four Winns.

THE EARLY DAYS Contrary to what you might assume, given the obvious success of the company today, the rise of Four Winns boats was far from a sure thing and could have been sunk 100 times in its early years. To begin with, the company started almost by accident.

After college, John Winn took a job as a sales associate for the Starcraft boat company. Later, with his brother Bill, he started a company that represented several

small boat manufacturers. They travelled around making deals with boat dealers.

One of those was in Cadillac. As JohnWinn — who grew up in Greenville, Michigan, near Grand Rapids — learned what boat dealers wanted, he began developing his own ideas for how a boat should be manufactured. He shared some of those ideas with one of the companies he and his brother repped, Saf-T-Mate, a small boat-building company in Cadillac owned

by George Spicer.

He might have shared his ideas with too much fervor — or maybe just too often.

And that’s how the Winns ended up with their own boat company.

At first, it was going to be just John and his brother Bill. But then the boys realized they would need their father to co-sign their business loan, so they brought him in, too.

And once Bill, Sr. agreed to come aboard, it only made sense to bring in the third Winn brother, Charlie, the oldest, who worked in finance in Lansing.

“And so we just decided, well, let’s see if we can do it with the with the four of us. Four Winns is better than three Winns, and that was it,” Winn said. “We were taking a big chance,

“And so we just decided, well, let’s see if we can do it with the with the four of us. Four Winns is better than three Winns, and that was it,” Winn said. “ … I kept wanting him to do new things to his boats, to update them,” Winn said.

“And one day I was in Cadillac, going over some things with him, and he takes me to lunch, and he said, ‘One of two things is going to happen today: You’re going to buy this thing, or you’re fired.’

“He said, ‘I’m 80 years old, and I just don’t want to do all these things that you want me to do.’”

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but at our ages, I just didn’t see that big of a risk.

In other words, if we lost everything at that age, you just start over. I didn’t think that way for my dad, but I did for the three of us.”

TRIAL BY FIRE Cadillac, Winn said, turned out to be a nice place to live and an ideal place to run a boat-building business; a solid workforce was already in place.

But only three years in, almost as soon as the company was getting onto its feet, it faced a death sentence.

On May 1, 1978, right at noon, the Four Winns facilities in Cadillac burned down.

An employee had been careless with some resin, causing the fire. Winn said that by the end of that day, the company had a negative net worth of $2 million. The three brothers and their father lost everything.

“We talked to an attorney, and he said, ‘You’re not going bankrupt; you are bankrupt,” Winn said.

At that point, with no idea what to do, Winn said they did the only thing they could imagine: They kept working. And decided to keep building boats until someone told them they couldn’t anymore.

“Frankly, what we did, I don’t believe you could do today. The local bank — Cadillac State Bank at the time it was called — decided we were important enough to the community, even though we were only three years old,” he said. “They saw something in us.”

They worked out a deal with the bank, and then hammered out deals with their supplier’s vowing to repay what they could, when they could.

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They lived up to their promises, managing to pay back each supplier and, in a few years, got the company on its feet again. But in 1980, a global oil crisis caused another near-fatal blow to the company.

First, President Jimmy Carter threatened to outlaw weekend recreational boating; next, a 10 percent luxury tax was imposed on boats.

Winn remembers where he was when he heard of the threat to ban weekend boating — a boat show in Milwaukee.

“We had sold 14 boats so far in that show, and [the federal government] proposed [the ban] on Friday night,” Winn said. “They did all the major networks and, by Sunday, we had given back all 14 deposits and never sold another boat [at that show]. … So, on and off that year we were shut down.”

RISING FROM THE ASHES Surviving those early days required the Winn family to sacrifice nearly all they had to keep their company afloat.

They sold their homes. They sold their cars.

“I lived in a 30-foot trailer,” Winn said.

“It’d be kind calling it a mobile home. It was a 30-foot trailer I lived in, and I told my wife, ‘Let’s live in it for three months.’ … We ended up living in it for three years.”

Life was much the same for the other brothers.

“We only spent what we absolutely had to,” he added. “None of us took salaries. We had working wives. And we just did what we had to do. One of my brothers drove my mom’s car, and my other brother drove my dad’s car, and we sold our car.”

The can-do spirit that the Winns’ applied to saving their company not only carried them out of the 1980 crisis but soon launched them to the top of their industry. Within six years, Four Winns became the third-largest boat maker among hundreds in the country.

No small feat that. The economics of fiberglass boat manufacturing made it a

relatively easy business to get into in the 1980s. There were a lot of regional boat makers all around the country, with each area dominated by a regional manufacturer, but only a couple of companies actually competed nationwide.

The Winns had decided they wanted to be one of those nationwide companies.

“I remember one time we had had a very good year. And the four of us sat around, and we asked everybody, ‘Need anything?’ And everybody said, ‘No.’ ‘No.’ ‘No.’ And we had made a good profit that year, and we thought, well, rather than take bonuses out, let’s build another plant,” Winn said. “So we built a plant in Texas, and we ended up building 5,000 boats a year out of that plant. We could have stayed the size that we were and taken that money out personally, but we didn’t.”

That’s how Four Winns became the third largest boat company in the country.

Winn said that for years in the early ’80s, there was always a construction zone working somewhere around their Cadillac headquarters, adding a building here or there. Soon, between Cadillac and Texas, Four Winns was building 65 boats a day.

PROFIT SHARING AND A CAFETERIA Winn credits the incredible success of Four Winns in those years, in part, to two perks the family developed for its employees: a profit-sharing program and a subsidized cafeteria that offered employees great food at a bargain price.

Winn said he believes the profit-sharing program made the company more efficient.

“Without profit sharing, you’re asking people to do more, more, more for us, us, us, not them,” he said.

Winn said the profit-sharing program worked because it motivated employees to be efficient and cut down on waste.

“I was walking on the line one day, and one of them said, ‘Hey, I got an idea — these vents look so good. Let’s put chrome ones on all the boats.’ And I said, ‘You know, Jim, I agree. They do look better.’ But I said, ‘Let’s analyze it for a minute. We’ve already cost out

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our boats and priced them for the year. We’re building 10,000 boats a year. These are $5 a piece more than the painted ones. There’s two on a boat, that’s $10. We’re building 10,000 boats; that’s $100,000 right out of profit sharing. What do you think? And he goes, ‘Holy sh*%, don’t do that!’ And if it hadn’t had been for profit-sharing, he wouldn’t have cared. It wasn’t his money.”

The Four Winns cafeteria came about after John Winn watched an episode of 60 Minutes that featured a successful, innovative company that ran its own cafeteria. Winn called the president of that company and asked him how it worked. He said the man said that, first and foremost, the cafeteria should not be free, because if it is, employees won’t appreciate it.

Winn recruited the chef from the local country club to help him set up the cafeteria, and he bought all of the kitchen equipment at an auction. When it came time to launch, the country club chef, Norm Potter, asked if he could run it, Winn said.

“And we charged a dollar-and-a-half a day. It was a full meal — salad bar, dessert bar. We had an ice cream machine. And I think I learned more from [Norm Potter] as to what was going on down on the floor than from anybody. He was like a father figure to the employees. And we all just ate there together. We didn’t have an executive dining room,” Winn said.

BIG WAVES IN THE INDUSTRY Just as Four Winns reached the top of the boat manufacturing world, the industry was changing in a way that would lead the brothers and their father to sell the company.

Boat engine manufacturers had begun to purchase boat building companies. By 1987, Brunswick Mercury Marine owned Four Winns’ two rivals, Bayliner and Sea Ray. Winn said that it gradually became apparent that independent manufacturers would have a hard time going it alone. Once the engine makers owned all of the competition, boat manufacturers who depended on engine makers would be in a tough spot.

“Well, we absolutely were not for sale, but the more we thought about it, the more we thought half the building materials in our size boats are the engines,” Winn said. “And if these guys get in a real war on pricing, our feeling was that, as independents, we’re gonna have a hard time competing with both of them.”

In 1987, OMC Boat Group purchased Four Winns. By then, it had already gobbled up 10 other companies. Three of the four Winns left, but John Winn stayed on for another seven years. He was put in charge of Four Winns and the 10 other boat companies OMC already had in its portfolio.

Winn kept the Four Winns headquarters in Cadillac, and, for the time that he remained, he was able to protect the employee profit-sharing plan his family had instituted and continued running the subsidized cafeteria.

“Part of the deal was, as long as I was still there, they couldn’t touch our profitsharing, and they couldn’t touch anything to do with the cafeteria. Nothing,” he said.

“I left — and within weeks it was all gone.

And they brought in some outside vendor who wanted to make a profit on the food.

And now, nobody goes there. They all run to McDonald’s or Burger King every day, and they lost that whole camaraderie.”

Ultimately, Winn said, it was the capacity of the company to make those kinds of corporate decisions that caused him to leave around 1995.

“I just couldn’t take working for a publicly held corporation anymore,” he said.

“These guys, public corporations, in my opinion, they’re not willing to make longterm decisions. Everything is short-term.

And it’s all based on the stock price.”

Today, Four Winns remains in Cadillac, but it is owned by the French boat company Groupe Beneteau. John Winn is no longer in the boat business, and he is arguably best known today for his massive “boathouse” on Round Lake in Charlevoix that’s been featured in the Wall Street Journal and on HGTV.

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NEW TUG IN TC THIS SUMMER In above-the-waterline Grand Traverse Bay news, the tugboat Mississippi has joined the Great Lakes Maritime Academy’s fleet in Traverse City.

ON THE HUNT Searching for WWII Aircraft Carriers — and maybe a U-boat — Under GT Bay

By Craig Manning Dozens of World War II aircraft are lost somewhere beneath the waters of Lake Michigan, and students and faculty from the Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) could play an important role in recovering them.

Last summer, the Office of Coast Survey — part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — worked with the Underwater Archeology Branch of the Naval History and Heritage Command to launch a three-week survey project. The effort was intended to explore nine target areas throughout Lake Michigan, each identified as a potential resting point of a drowned WWII vessel. Only seven of the sites were surveyed, but Hans Van Sumeran of the Great Lakes Water Studies Institute at NMC says the last two are still points of interest for NOAA — and that NMC could be involved in future searches.

The craft that NOAA are looking for date back to the 1940s, when the United States Navy positioned two aircraft carriers on the Great Lakes — the USS Sable and the USS Wolverine — for Naval training purposes.

According to NOAA, nearly 18,000 pilots were trained and qualified on the Great Lakes, including former President George H.W. Bush. Van Sumeran says the Navy also used the Sable and the Wolverine as spots to launch and test some of the firstever unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In the course of training and testing, hundreds of aircraft — both UAVs and pilot planes — crashed into the water. NOAA estimates that more than 100 of those craft remained unrecovered at the bottom of Lake Michigan at the end of WWII. According to Van Sumeran, NOAA approached NMC last summer about surveying a site that may have more than

aircraft hiding below the water. “[At one of the sites], NOAA were hopeful they would find a German U-boat that was sunk in a practice exercise,” he says. “They wanted [NMC] to take one of our remotely operated vehicles and do a full inspection of that area.”

Unfortunately, a string of bad weather in the late summer squandered survey plans of the suspected U-boat location. However, Van Sumeran is hoping NOAA might bring NMC in for a second attempt this summer or fall — in which case several pupils would get the opportunity of a lifetime.

“We were going to bring some of our students last year, so we’ll see how it lines up with schedules this year,” Van Sumeran says. “What will likely happen is that myself and John Lutchko, our marine tech coordinator — as well as one or two students — will go out and do the mission for NOAA, performing a very detailed inspection of the U-boat — if that’s what they found.”

So far, NMC hasn’t gotten the call from the NOAA for summer 2020 projects.

However, Van Sumeran says that there is currently some survey work going on near Chicago that could end up recovering some of the lost WWII training planes — and that Bernadette Bottke, a third-year NMC marine technology student, is working on the project for the summer.

Between the Water Studies Institute and NMC’s marine technology program, the college has significant experience mapping the Great Lakes and Grand Traverse Bay for wrecks. In 2009, students of the Water Studies Institute used sonar mapping technology to find the wreck of the Lauren Castle, a tugboat that sank in 1989.

The discovery marked the first time this type of equipment — known more technically as multi-beam echo sounders (MBES) — had been used in the bay. The technology, Van

Sumeran explains, is essentially a magnified version of the “fish finder” that provides depth readings and other bottom feature data on most fishing vessels. Where a fish finder uses a single sonar beam, MBES combines 512 individual beams to achieve more accurate feature detection. “We can capture areas that are 500 meters across as the ship moves along at seven or eight knots, and we can see things less than 10 centimeters in size on the lake floor.”

Shortly after the Lauren Castle discovery, a colleague sent Van Sumeran a report about the Sable and the Wolverine — and about four or five UAVs that were supposedly somewhere near the dividing line between Grand Traverse Bay and Lake Michigan.

Intrigued, Van Sumeran got NMC involved. “[The water] gets somewhat shallow in those areas, so we tried to survey the most probable spots for these aircraft,” Van Sumeran says. “The problem was that the locations where the drones reportedly crashed were these almost 10-square-mile boxes. To have the sonar to be able to detect that — or for us to just happen to move over it — would take an enormous amount of money or time.

So we did a little bit of looking, but we never came up with anything.”

A decade later, those particular Grand Traverse Bay UAVs have never been recovered. They’re also not a top priority for NOAA: most of the survey spots — as well as the suspected U-boat location — are in the southern part of Lake Michigan. But Van Sumeran is hopeful that, someday, surveying technology might improve enough to make those finds more feasible. The search for the Great Lakes WWII craft, he says, stretches back decades, and each new technological breakthrough yields a few more discoveries.

Just last year, NOAA’s efforts, for instance, found two aircraft, a sunken ship, and a few boilers from another wreck.

Last week, GLMA crew of four sailed the tugboat Mississippi from near Cleveland to the Great Lakes campus harbor; the tug was leased to increase cadets’ options for completing their required 360 days of sea time before graduation. (Cadets complete their sea time requirements during three sea projects, the first of which is completed aboard the T/S State of Michigan, GLMA’s flagship vessel since 2002.)

Typically, cadets accrue the remaining sea time aboard commercial vessels.

However, berths on commercial vessels are increasingly difficult to obtain, said GLMA superintendent Jerry Achenbach.

This is due to GLMA’s full enrollment, with at least 21 students on a waiting list for admission this fall.

The Mississippi will provide another option for cadets to earn sea time. It will also allow Maritime deck cadets to earn an additional endorsement enabling them to serve as a licensed officer on a tow vessel. This will substantially increase their postgraduation employment options.

“It would be great to come out of the Academy with pilotage and a towing endorsement. That’s going to be amazing in terms of job opportunities,” said Margaret Handel, a 2020 Maritime graduate who needs to complete just 35 days of sea time.

She had hoped to do so aboard a commercial vessel, but said the tugboat would be a great substitute, especially since the coronavirus pandemic has made it even more difficult to get sea time.

Cadet Zachary Ferguson agreed. He is set to graduate in 2021 and needs 96 more days of sea time.

“There’s lots of days we’re behind (due to the pandemic.) The tug is really going to help to try and make up those days. Every day counts,” he said.

In March, NMC trustees unanimously approved leasing the Mississippi for six months at a cost of $73,800. Including fuel ($100,000), insurance and instructor salaries, it will cost an estimated $188,000 to operate the tugboat this year.

As the state maritime academy of Michigan, the Great Lakes Maritime Academy at Northwestern Michigan College educates and trains deck and engineering officers for the U.S. Merchant Marine. Graduates earn a bachelor’s degree, and an unlimited tonnage/ horsepower merchant marine license.

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Thankfully, there’s a second category for the man who has everything for whom shopping is mission impossible: grilling gear and accessories. Far less buttoned up, necessitating only a white apron to match, and tried and true for most any dude in June, here are some suggestions for the man who made you (and those amazing hamburgers).

1. THAT’SA GRILLED PIZZA!

Got a dad who loves grilling but needs to cut back on his intake of pure protein? Offer him an alternative that won’t force him inside.

Cutlers in Petoskey offers this Precision Pierced Pizza Pan for grills that creates an insanely crispy — not burnt — crust that also rises.

Made from 18/8 stainless steel and dishwasher safe, it’s easy to clean and will likely last for loads of Friday night pizza parties. Priced at $20.99 and measuring less than 13” in diameter, if Dad’s grill permits, you might as well buy two. Find it at Cutlers, 216 Howard St., or www. cutlersonline.com.

2. ON-THE-GO GRILL & SMOKER

If you can’t decide whether to surprise Dad with a grill he can port to deer camp, a smoker to tailor his own jerky, or a charcoal grill like the kind your family had when you were a kid, go big and get all three — in one portable package. The little big man of the BBQ world right now, aptly named the Napoleon Apollo® 300 Charcoal Grill and Water Smoker, can go from compact and portable charcoal grill

(about 19 inches in diameter; i.e., 17 burgers at a time) to a full-sized smoker and steamer in a minute. Its heavy gauge porcelain enameled body circulates smoke through two or three tiers; multiple access doors allow Dad to check on the food and smoke levels and add charcoal and wood chips; and a 2.6-gallon water pan lets him add fragrant steam. There’s also a built-in ACCU-PROBE™ temperature gauge and, at every level, eyelets for monitoring (read: showing off his smoking vittles), plus sliding vents (at grill top and bottom) for easy burn-rate and temperature control. 10-year warranty. $349, Find it at Phillips Home & Hearth, 1151 South Airport Rd. in Traverse City, (231) 922-0064, or Phillips Lifestyles at 5161 US-31 in Grawn, (231) 929-1396. www. phillipslifestyles.com.

3. A JUICY SECRET

Mom knows presentation. (See: “Every Thanksgiving dinner since you were born.”)

Dad knows … well, let’s just say some dads think a slab of meat hanging off two sides of a dinner plate will suffice. For them, we offer

a subtle step up: architec’s large (20-by-16 inches) and lovely oval cutting board that is oh-so-subtly concave, meaning Dad can hoist his slab upon it, and the meat will marinate in its own pooling juices until he’s ready to slice — non-slip gripper feet hold the board steady as he saws — and serve, all on a single pretty platter. $50.40, from At Home Suttons Bay, 405 St. Joseph St. and www.athomesuttonsbay.com.

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for chopping and food prep, it features an ash handle and comes complete with a custom leather sheath made by Carter Wheelock of LMBR + HIDE. $175. To commission a knife, reach out to Refuge Salvage Works in Maple City, (231) 835-2049, refugsesalvageworks. com; or shop at Refuge Industries’ retail showroom and salon at 117 Broadway, in Suttons Bay (231) 866-4228.

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It isn’t every day you can find a gift for Dad that’s both useful and heirloomworthy. Mitchell Meoak’s handmade knives, however, fit the dual bill. With blades made from found metal and handles carved from hardwoods the 2015 storm brought down on Meoak’s 16-acre property in Maple City, each knife is a one-of-a-kind piece. Choose from Meoak’s revolving inventory — or better yet, collaborate with him to craft one that suits your one-of-a-kind Dad. Shown here is a mini cleaver (7.25-inches long with a 3.75inch blade) Meoak has available now. Great

Our staff gourmet calls this stuff the Pop Rocks of mustard, and she does not exaggerate: Whole yellow and black mustard seeds — soaked in vinegar and Michigan sparkling wine — are made “plump, tender, and toothsome,” and then burst in your mouth with a release of simultaneous heat and sweet. Dad can use it to dress up his dogs, sausages, or salmon from the grill, but it’s equally awesome served with smoked meats or atop a simple ham sandwich. 8-ounce jar, $12.95. Find it at American Spoon Foods in Petoskey, Charlevoix, Traverse City, and Harbor Springs, or www.spoon.com.

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By Lynda Wheatley They say happiness starts with a wet nose and ends with a tail. We’d be inclined to agree. In tribute to our canine co-workers, who proved to be a 12-week quarantine’s most (only?) tolerable companions, we declare summer’s dog days start now.

Rather than hot temps or starry skies, these dog days are all about rewards — in this case, road-trips: to any or all of five beautiful Up North beaches where pups can run, fetch, sniff, and swim their ever-loving hearts out … and maybe score just a little treat more.

ZOLL STREET BEACH Harbor Springs

What this small patch of grass, sand, and Little Traverse Bay shoreline lacks in girth, it more than makes up for in gravy: Because Zoll is the only dog-friendly public beach in Harbor Springs, the opportunity to play well with others is almost always available.

So, too, are picnic tables, a nearby flush toilet (for humans, of course), and the rare freedom to let your dog run off leash if he heeds voice commands. Rover can’t easily roam away, either; the area between parking lot and bay is contained by a wooden fence on one side and a dense natural tree line on the other. Our favorite part of this place?

Boat and paddle racks aplenty, so you and your pup can easily paddle in or out on your SUP or kayak and then lock up your

watercraft and leave to take a leashed walk through downtown — or straight up Zoll Street to Deer Park, where a herd of friendly deer roam freely and safely behind a fenced area. Find the beach at 101 Zoll St., between the tony enclave of Wequetonsing and Walstrom’s marina, and the Harbor Springs Deer Park at 170 Zoll St.

FIRST STREET BEACH Manistee

Technically, dogs are not allowed on first Street beach between Memorial Day and Labor Day, but the city of Manistee has done its resident and visiting dogs a solid favor by offering, just north of First Street (the actual street), below the observation deck near the Lions Pavilion, a dedicated dog beach where the Manistee River meets Lake Michigan. If a romp in the sand and water aren’t enough to tucker out your pup, lead him for a walk along the two-mile riverside boardwalk that runs from adjacent Douglas Park to downtown Manistee. Still not tired?

Let him run loose in the dog park just south of First Street, on Lakeshore Drive, next to Lighthouse Park.

NEDOW’S BAY Leland

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dogs, kids, and families should. Just a short shot down Pearl Street from the village post office, Nedow’s is tucked below Leland Lodge and within water-hazard-watching distance of Leland Country Club fairways.

Its shallow waters are warm, its beach and surrounding lawn-scape are big enough to spread out on (thanks to a 1998 effort between the Leelanau Conservancy and Leland Township that doubled the park’s size), and shade trees and picnic tables make all-day stays easy. One warning: Behind the giant rock bearing the plaque commemorating the park’s 1966 dedication honoring Frances Davis Bartholomew is a bunch of poison ivy. Warn your rockclimbing kids and keep your pup’s pit stop elsewhere — or risk itching for another dogfriendly beach for at least two weeks.

CECIL BAY BEACH Mackinaw City

Up at the western tip of the Mitt, the 26mile shoreline of Wilderness State Park gets a lot of attention, all of it well-deserved. But it’s Cecil Bay Beach, just a quick jog north from the intersection of Wilderness Park Drive and Cecil Bay Road, that draws us people with pups. The public beach here, often overlooked and uncrowded, sits at the mouth of the Carp River, offering a mile of white sand Lake Michigan shoreline to run and swim, gorgeous river frontage and fishing to sniff, and — coupled with the adjacent offerings of Cecil Bay Park —

with about 800 acres of woods, plus a grassy picnic area, giant outdoor stone fireplace, and restrooms to boot. A wild but civilized paradise for both quad- and bi-peds, no park pass required.

GLENWOOD BEACH Boyne City

At the end of Glenwood Beach Drive, you’ll find a delightfully shallow section of Lake Charlevoix that both leashed dogs and little kids love. (Like any parent, though, be watchful: That long wade of three-feet deep water gives way to a suddenly deep drop-off. Strong swimmers or chestharness leashes are recommended.) Post swim, you and your dog can dry off with a one-mile stroll to the north end of town, where Ridge Run Dog Park — on Ridge Street, one block west of Charlevoix Street and one black north of Court Street — delivers two fenced-in acres of off-leash fun, plus doggie water fountains. (Coming soon: a dog agility course!) Should all the running, swimming, and sniffing work up Fido’s appetite, there’s only one place left to go: downtown’s Hoppy Hound Coffee and Dog Bakery (118 Water St.), home to summer “hooman” treats like the Mocha Mastiff, a cold-brew coffee with chocolate and toasted marshmallow, and gourmet baked goods for hounds. Note: Hoppy Hounds hours, for now, are 9am– 5pm Wednesdays through Saturdays. Get updates at hoppyhoundcoffee.com.

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By Ross Boissoneau You don’t have to have a boat to enjoy Northern Michigan’s bounty of freshwater lakes.

But it sure does make a day on the water a lot more fun.

We called boat dealers across the region to find out what’s available right now — boatsamong the highest of high-end and those with the best value (and at a lower price point).

Whether your idea of a dreamboat is a luxury cruiser with all the comforts of home or a small investment in sailing away, we’ve got options so you can have your own floating oasis — one you can drop in most anywhere you want to drop away.

GLENCRAFT MARINA, GLEN ARBOR High Value: A 1978 Tiara 2000. Sales manager G.T. Aylsworth said the one-owner boat is in great shape, with lots of character … and lots of teak. This Fisherman model is equally at home on inland lakes or Lake Michigan. It has a Mercruiser V8 with only 500 original hours.

The fiberglass boat (with a tandem axle trailer) is 20 feet, 2 inches in length and priced at $6,500.

High End: This 2020 Cobalt R5 is loaded, boasting three-color graphics with seagrass flooring, wood dash/trim package, dual batteries with switch, a pump-out porta potty, windlass anchor, trim tabs, stainless foot tread, and much more. The 25-and-a-half-foot boat can accommodate up to 14 passengers and boasts a premium sound system with six speakers (iPod/USB/MP3 port and Bluetooth), a stainless steel ski pylon, and a Volvo Penta 380 horsepower DP with just over 100 hours. $119,500.

WALSTROM MARINE High End: The Tiara Yachts 49 Coupe includes the latest in technology: joystick docking, driving and position-keeping with the push of a button. It has a full-beam master stateroom with large side windows and a private head, while two guest staterooms share a second full-size head. Its full galley is complemented by the grill and additional refrigerator on the aft deck, while a forward lounge and aft cockpit area are great for gatherings. Or enjoy the speed of a 385 horsepower engine — like 55 miles per hour speed. $1,600,000.

SAILSPORT MARINE High value I: If you’d rather sit than stand, and fishing is your thing, here you go. The Hobie Mirage Pro Angler 360 pedal-powered kayak has everything elite anglers are looking for — control, power, stability, performance and comfort. Don’t forget stealth — its wide, rock-solid standing platform comes decked out with noise-reducing EVA traction pads.

Add a super-comfy adjustable seat, dual steering, and an extra-wide beam, allowing for long days on the water. Starting at $4,599.

High value II: If it’s sailing you want, the Sunfish is the most popular recreational sailboat in – well, ever. It boasts a classic design, unmatched stability and sailing ease, making it a sailboat enjoyed and appreciated by anyone of any age. It’s easy to transport — at 120 pounds, you can pop it on (and off) the top of a car. The durable construction ensures years of maintenance-free enjoyment. It’s just under 14 feet in length. $4,800.

LONG LAKE MARINA, TRAVERSE CITY High Value: The 20-foot Bennington 20 SLV pontoon was the marina’s No. 1 selling model last year, and this year looks to be the same.

It features easy-to-clean Simtek furniture (cooler to the touch than most at this price point), a dinette table, aft deck, full vinyl floor, even a changing room curtain. Plus flexible seating, including a reclining captain’s chair and two chaise lounges, tons of storage, and a 50-horsepower outboard engine, perfect for those sunset cruises. $21,911.

High End: The 2020 Bennington 24 Bowrider is the first bowrider-style pontoon boat. At just over 26 feet in length and eightand-a-half feet in width, it’s perfect for those parties on the water. Oh, you want to zip around, maybe even pull a skier? With a 300-horsepower motor, no problem. This craft offers wide chaise lounge seats, loads of storage, a zebrawood slate trapezoid table, stainless steel hinges and latches, and with a Rockford Fostgate all-in-one stereo system, it’s ready to rock. $80,000.

TOMMY’S WALLOON LAKE High End: Sales representative Ryan Sugnet says 2020 Malibu M240 is “over the top.” Seems he’s right: The 24-foot luxury craft boasts exclusive features, producing the largest and cleanest surf swells in the wake boat industry. Other features include a supercharged towboat engine, a fully automatic Gx tower, a flip-up seatback that doubles as a wind block, and 7,000 watt (!) onboard entertainment system with Rev 10 tower speakers and 12 interior speakers provides surround sound. $200,000.

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If you, through your own actions, show that you care, you signal that he can safely express love for you, in which case, you can say it back. As a woman, judicious honesty about your feelings is probably the best policy. Sure, let a man know you’re into him, but hold back on exactly how much: “If we weren’t together, I’d chain you to a wall in my basement and lower your food in a bucket.”

: I’m a straight woman with a boyfriend of three months. I’m falling in love but don’t know how to say it. Is there a way that’s “safer” than others? Say it super casually?

Slip it in at the end of a phone convo? In the middle of sex?

—Wondering Woman

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: For originality and visual appeal, you can’t beat the interior decorator approach to ILY: Your boyfriend walks into your apartment, and you have a little shrine with a small gold statuette of him surrounded by candles and oranges.

But let’s back up from the “how to tell him” question to why you feel the need. Sure, you care about him, and it’s romantic to be all heart-baring. However, it’s possible the suspense from not knowing how he feels is causing uncomfortable psychological tension, the mind’s version of a really bad need to pee.

Unfortunately, what’s best for a full bladder might not set up the best dynamic for a relationship. Consider research by evolutionary social psychologist Joshua Ackerman and his colleagues. Though people believe “it takes men an average of 3 weeks longer than women to confess love,” men tend to be the ones to “express love and commitment first.” This makes sense when you consider that sex could leave a woman a single mom with a kid to feed. Women evolved to be “commitment skeptics,” erring on the side of doubting a man’s willingness to stick around and provide. A man in love is a man unlikely to be clandestinely swiping right on the hot hussies of Tinder.

Because men and women coevolved, men expect commitment skepticism from women.

And because of this, I suspect it creates a stronger foundation for a relationship if a man perceives his female partner to be higher in mate value (say, an 8 to his 6.5). Heresy, I know.

But note that it’s generally seen as romantic if a husband says about his wife, “Just glad she didn’t realize she could do much better!” and if a woman said that, we’d probably pity her.

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If a longing to escape emotional limbo is behind your desire to get blurty, recognize that you aren’t without information about how the guy feels. Look to his behavior. Does he show you he loves you and longs to be around you even when you’ll be spending hours and hours fully clothed? Does he show concern for your well-being, helping you

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: I want to end a relationship, but I don’t know how. I don’t want to hurt my boyfriend’s feelings, but we’re just not a good fit. I really hate conflict and would rather just ghost, but I know that’s not right. What’s the easiest way to break up with someone? Is there a way to make it less traumatic?

— Avoidant

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: The easiest way to break up with someone is to be crushed by a flaming meteorite. There’s no uncomfortable conversation; your smoking ashes say it all: “It’s not you. It’s me, and specifically, the way I’ve been turned into a pile of fireplace trash.”

You, on the other hand, are turning this guy into a human beetle trapped in relationship amber because you’re letting your emotions do your thinking. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman explains that our brain has two information-processing systems, a fastresponding emotional system and a slower rational system. Our fast emotional system jumps in automatically. (You just get angry when someone keys your car; you don’t have to decide to be angry.) Reasoning, however, is “mental work,” Kahneman explains. It requires choosing to make the effort, like considering whether your initial emotional reaction (in this case, “avoid conflict at all cost!”) is actually a wise response.

You might, for example, calculate how much time you spend daily fretting over procrastinating and add up the weekly “cost.” Chances are you’re actually having a ton of “conflict”; it’s just not with the person it would be helpful to. Telling this guy, “I just don’t think we’re a good fit,” on the other hand, releases him to find somebody who actually wants him. It also eliminates relationship issues that tend to crop up when you stay with somebody who isn’t doing it for you anymore. (If your partner’s inspired to get a battery-operated device to liven things up in bed, it shouldn’t be a defibrillator.)

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person,” writes author Anna Quindlan. I agree! Luckily, you are quite unfinished, and thus not at all boring—especially these days.

More than ever before, you seem willing to treat yourself as an art project that’s worthy of your creative ingenuity—as a work-in-progress that’s open to new influences and fresh teachings. That’s why I say your unfinishedness is a sign of good health and vitality. It’s delightful and inspiring.

You’re willing to acknowledge that you’ve got a lot to learn and more to grow. In fact, you celebrate that fact; you exult in it; you regard it as a key part of your ever-evolving identity.

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like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious,” writes author Erica Jong. “They tell you what your secret self cannot express.”

I invite you to expand that formula so it’s exactly suitable for you in the coming weeks. My sense is that you are being called to travel the royal road to your unconscious mind so as to discover what your secret self has been unable or unwilling to express. Poems and dreams might do the trick for you, but so might other activities. For example: sexual encounters between you and a person you respect and love; or an intense night of listening to music that cracks open the portal to the royal road. Any others? What will work best for you?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “We must

combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.” Capricorn hero Martin Luther King, Jr. said that, and now I’m conveying it to you. In my astrological opinion, his formula is a strategy that will lead you to success in the coming weeks. It’ll empower you to remain fully open and receptive to the fresh opportunities flowing your way, while at the same time you’ll remain properly skeptical about certain flimflams and delusions that may superficially resemble those fresh opportunities.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “If it makes you nervous—you’re doing it right,” says the daring musician and actor Donald Glover. Personally, I don’t think that’s true in all situations. I’ve found that on some occasions, my nervousness stems from not being fully authentic or being less than completely honest. But I do think Glover’s formula fully applies to your efforts in the coming weeks, Aquarius. I hope you will try new things that will be important to your future, and/ or work to master crucial skills you have not yet mastered. And if you’re nervous as you carry out those heroic feats, I believe it means you’re doing them right.

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): Piscean author

Patricia Hampl understands a lot about the epic tasks of trying to know oneself and be oneself.

She has written two memoirs, and some of her other writing draws from her personal experiences, as well. And yet she confesses, “Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.” She suggest that it’s often easier to be someone you’re not; to adopt the ways of other people as your own; to imitate what you admire rather than doing the hard work of finding out the truth about yourself. That’s the bad news, Pisces. The good news is that this year has been and will continue to be a very favorable time to ripen into the acquired taste of being yourself. Take advantage of this ripening opportunity in the coming weeks!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): My Aries friend

Lavinia told me, “The fight I’m enjoying most lately is my fight to resist the compulsion to fight.”

I invite you to consider adopting that attitude for the foreseeable future. Now and then, you Rams do seem to thrive on conflict, or at least use it to achieve worthy deeds—but the coming weeks will not be one of those times.

I think you’re due for a phase of sweet harmony. The more you cultivate unity and peace and consensus, the healthier you’ll be.

Do you dare act like a truce-maker, an agreement-broker, and a connoisseur of rapport?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The answers

you get depend upon the questions you ask,” wrote physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22):

“To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear,” wrote Cancerian author Jean de La Fontaine. I’ll make that one of my prayers for you in the coming weeks. It’s a realistic goal you can achieve and install as a permanent improvement in your life. While you’re at it, work on the following prayers, as well: 1. To hell with bliss that’s haunted by guilt. 2. To hell with joy that’s haunted by worry. 3. To hell with breakthroughs that are haunted by debts to the past. 4. To hell with uplifts that are haunted by other people’s pessimism.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Experiment #1: As you

take a walk in nature, sing your five favorite songs from beginning to end, allowing yourself to fully feel all the emotions those tunes arouse in you. Experiment #2: Before you go to sleep on each of the next eleven nights, ask your dreams to bring you stories like those told by the legendary Scheherazade, whose tales were so beautiful and engaging that they healed and improved the lives of all those who heard them. Experiment #3: Gaze into the mirror and make three promises about the gratifying future you will create for yourself during the next 12 months.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Vincent van

Gogh’s painting The Starry Night is one of the world’s most treasured paintings. It has had a prominent place in New York’s Museum of Modern Art since 1941. If it ever came up for sale it would probably fetch over $100 million. But soon after he created this great masterpiece, van Gogh himself called it a “failure.” He felt the stars he’d made were too big and abstract. I wonder if you’re engaging in a comparable underestimation of your own. Are there elements of your life that are actually pretty good, but you’re not giving them the credit and appreciation they deserve? Now’s a good time to reconsider and re-evaluate.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Now is a favorable

time to make adjustments in how you allocate your attention—to re-evaluate what you choose to focus on. Why? Because some people, issues, situations, and experiences may not be worthy of your intense care and involvement, and you will benefit substantially from redirecting your fine intelligence in more rewarding directions. To empower your efforts, study these inspirational quotes: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” —philosopher Simone Weil. “Attention is the natural prayer of the soul.” —philosopher Nicolas Malebranche.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet

Marianne Moore’s poem “O To Be a Dragon,” begins with the fantasy, “If I, like Solomon, could have my wish . . .” What comes next? Does Moore declare her desire to be the best poet ever?

To be friends with smart, interesting, creative people? To be admired and gossiped about for wearing a tricorn hat and black cape as she walked around Greenwich Village near her home?

Nope. None of the above. Her wish: “O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven—of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!” In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to be inspired by Moore in the coming weeks. Make extravagant wishes for lavish and amusing powers, blessings, and fantastic possibilities.

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