Northern Express - March 15, 2021

Why the World’s Water Scarcity Matters Here, Now

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Respect the Zoning, Wineries As a fifth-generation farmer on Old Mission, I am deeply concerned by WOMP’s lawsuit against our township government.

Wunsch Farms manages around 1,000 acres of tree fruit in Peninsula Township, about the same acreage as all our wineries in total have in production. Doing right by our neighbors is a core part of our operating philosophy. We dispatch tractors at 4am and ship our fruit at midnight to mitigate traffic issues.

I disagree with WOMP’S characterization: We are not a failing or declining business, and a commercialized wine entertainment sector is not the only path forward for OMP’s agricultural land. In the last five years, three millennial members of our family farm have purchased farms of their own on Old Mission, and our farm has grown from humble beginnings to manage as much farmland as the entire Old Mission Peninsula wine industry combined.

Due to [Peninsula Township’s publicly funded Purchase of Development Rights] program [in which voters agree to tax themselves to purchase development rights from agricultural landowners, as a way of protecting that land from development] and the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, residential development is not the major threat it once was to the viability of our low-impact agriculture.

But an environment of restaurant/bar/ hotels and wedding venues masquerading as agricultural businesses is a major threat.

How can low-impact agricultural producers compete with commercial restaurant/hotel/bar/wedding complexes for farmland in the township without also adopting such a commercial approach?

As farmers, when market conditions for a crop are not profitable, we plant new crops, improve our operational efficiencies, or add value within the confines of the zoning ordinance.

Our current zoning ordinance provides ample opportunity for farms and wineries to produce crops and add value to those crops through on-farm processing and limited on-site distribution. We can operate farm businesses while maintaining a pleasant peninsula.

Barbara W., Old Mission Peninsula Government Matters After a thick cloud descended on L.A. residents in 1942 and, years later, smog crippled London, air pollution became a major public concern in the United States.

In 1962, the American Clean Air Act established the modern regulatory system for controlling air pollution in the United States. This Act did what it was supposed to do — get poisonous gases out of the air.

Since 1990, various poisonous gases have dropped on average by 70 percent. Lead has nearly vanished from American emissions.

Besides reducing air pollution, our government has developed smart energy policies. In 1910, only 12 percent of Americans has electric power in their homes. By 1950, more than 90 percent did, thanks to the efforts like federal funding for dams and the creation of federal agencies to regulate energy and massive government projects to bring electricity to rural areas.

In response to oil shortages of the 1970s, the United States set out to increase domestic production from various energy sources and soon created major legislation related to energy conservation, including fuel efficiency standards for cars. After the Great Recession of 2008, our government created jobs and spurred investment by putting money into renewable energy, energy efficiency, infrastructure, and railroads. Unemployment eventually settled down to 4 percent.

Now it’s time for the government to take action on greenhouse gas emissions. Let us start with putting a price on carbon emissions and returning the fees collected to households.

This will not only reduce emissions but also create jobs by producing renewable energy.

It also will reduce premature deaths by promoting clean energy.

Ronald M., Petoskey Pretend Laws It would be a gross understatement to say that schools and colleges have become hotbeds of social engineering and brainwashing. These institutions have failed to inculcate so much as a rudimentary understanding of God’s law, which is the bedrock of all laws and our Constitution.

Because of this ignorance, many Godgiven rights are no longer considered sacrosanct, and we are in great danger of living George Orwell’s 1984.

Principles that we have abandoned: Legislatures have sole responsibility for making laws. Judiciary interprets laws.

Executive enforces laws.

Our republic has been subverted through illegal executive orders and edicts by presidents, governors, mayors, health officials, and court opinions. The primary reason our Founding Fathers

rebelled against King George is because of his “pretended laws.” Americans were prosecuted for pretended offenses. Sounds a lot like mask mandates, social distancing, health mandates, and closing “non-essential businesses.”

“Color of law” is the term used for that.

It refers to an act done under the appearance of legal authorization when, in fact, no such authorization exists. Incidentally, it is a crime to enforce “pretended legislation.”

The most egregious usurpation is perpetrated by the courts. Supreme Court opinions regarding homosexual marriage and abortion, for example, do not legalize either one. These opinions illegally nullified laws prohibiting homosexual marriage and abortion, because such practices fail to comport with the Constitution and the laws of God. God’s laws supersede all laws!

Ignorance of the Constitution and Bible has empowered usurpers to virtually set aside our Constitution and impose on us a thousand times more “pretend laws” than King George ever did.

Thomas Jefferson warned: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free … it expects what never was and never will be.”

Herb F., Petoskey Know Who to Thank Congress passed the American Rescue Plan (ARP), and all Democratic members of the Michigan Delegation voted in favor of it. Here is how the Republicans voted: 1. Every Republican voted no on sending you a stimulus check.

2. Every Republican voted no on faster vaccine distribution.

3. Every Republican voted no on economic relief for renters, small businesses and schools.

4. Every Republican voted no on cutting child poverty in half.

Some of the items ARP includes are: 1. Direct payment of $1,400 for 158.5 million American households.

2. Unemployment benefits extended through August for around 11 million Americans 3. Tens of billions of dollars for assistance to renters and homeowners 4. $39 billion for childcare providers.

(This will help working and middle-class families struggling to juggle childcare and work by providing money to safely reopen schools and get vaccines in arms so kids can return to schools.)

5. 66 million kids will benefit from the Child Tax Credit, lifting 11 million people out of poverty and cutting child poverty in half, including through the historic expansion of the child tax credit.

6. Earned Income Tax Credit to 17 million low-income workers 7. Health insurance premiums lowered, 100% of Cobra premiums covered for laid-off workers: Significantly reduces health insurance premiums for millions of American families.

When it comes to our elected officials striving to help the American people, to help the people of the State of Michigan, it is clear which party puts us first.

Joanne C., Afton

CONTENTS features Focus on the Foam.........................................9

Water Scarcity Matters Here, Now................10 An American Tale of Two Irish Twins..............14 Brewers at 30 Below.....................................12

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top ten Science, Comedy & Doktor Kaboom to HIT GLCFA Stage Few things say science like Kaboom.

That’s the premise of the interactive sciencedriven comedy of Doktor Kaboom. The good doctor, errr … doktor, will be performing, experimenting, and involving the audience at Great Lakes Center for the Arts on March 20 and 21. Actor/comedian and star of the show David Epley grew up wanting a career in science, whether a research physicist, biomedical engineer, mathematician, astrophysicist, chemical engineer … you get the idea.

Instead, he spent the better part of three decades writing and performing original comedy shows, typically at outdoor festivals or on the street. In 2006 Epley opted to bring his original passion back into his life as an over-the-top German physicist sporting chrome goggles, orange lab coat, motorcycle boots, and wicked cool hair. Or as he describes himself: “Part Mr. Wizard, part Mr. Rogers.” (For those too young to recall Mr. Wizard, think Bill Nye … on steroids.)

Limited seating tickets are $5. Showtime is 2pm both days. Tickets at www.greatlakescfa.org.

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tastemaker Taproot’s Toum

If you can forgive the fact that our halfLebonese editor smeared it atop Costcobought falafel balls (trust us; they’re better than any she’s managed to make herself), we urge you to get yourself some of the tastiest salsat toum in town. An authentic taste of the Middle East, Taproot whips up its toum, initially, the traditional way: with loads of garlic, plus lemon juice, sunflower oil, and salt. But for a bit of well-balanced body and extra flavor, there are few unexpected bonuses: cane sugar, mustard powder, white vinegar, pepper, and aquafaba — the water snuggling canned chickpeas. The result is a bright and tangy, totally creamy toum, with just the right amount of bite for garlic lovers. Typically a condiment paired with shwarma or chicken kabobs, Taproot’s toum is a zesty alternative to your usual pita and humus hors d’oeuvres, and one we found can make the party more worldly yet, with additional sides of Mexican salsa, Hungarian deviled eggs, and Indian Naan.

Our editor went full bean, drenching the aforementioned Costco falafel and many, many cucumber slices in it — a move that proved both magical and delicious.

We discovered our tub at Oleson’s (3850 N. Long Lake Rd.) in Traverse City, but you can try a single smear of your own by ordering up Taproot Cider House’s own grilled pita ($11), which features the spread atop Omena Organic’s (masala) chickpeas, charred local carrots, micro cilantro, cucumber, feta, and ancho chili oil. Find Taproot Cider House at 300 E. Front St., in Traverse City. (231) 943-2500, www.taproottc.com

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Get Your Kilt On St. Pat celebrations might be a bit less crowded this year, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be subdued. Two cases in point: First, Crystal Mountain’s Celts & Kilts event, which brings Slopeside DJ to the Crystal Center patio, leprechauns and a scavenger hunt to the slopes, and a Pot of Gold Challenge, costume contest, and more to attendees noon–4pm Saturday, March 20. (See www.crystalmountain.com/event/celts-kayaks for more information.) Second, a free listen to an intimate chat with the woman who made men in kilts even sexier, famed historical fiction master Diana Gabaldon. The National Writers Series has made their 2014 conversation with her available on their new podcast, and while her famous “Outlander” series of novels takes place in Scotland, not Ireland, if you’ve read her scintillating adventure books or caught their TV adaptation on Starz (now in season sex, er … we mean six), you’ll want a listen, you bonny little lass, you. See anchor.fm/nationalwritersseries to listen and subscribe.

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My Year Abroad

In need of a little insouciant escape? Look no further than Chang-rae Lee’s “My Year Abroad.” Tiller, our 20-something narrator, is an all-around ordinary American. When we meet him, he’s comfortably ensconced in a quiet East Coast suburb with his witness-protected partner, actively avoiding his past.

Flashback a few months to Pong Lou’s arrival. A Chinese-American businessman peddling “restorative” beverages, Lou adopts Tiller as his assistant before sweeping him along on the trans-Asian trip of a lifetime, simultaneously forcing Tiller to fill his new adult shoes and reshaping his view of both the world and himself.

A spirited study in cultural immersion, Lee’s sixth novel deftly combines saga and satire in a commentary on human connection all of us could use a bit more of these days.

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Local Cigar Lounges Caught in COVID-19 Catch-22

And you thought Michigan’s pandemic restrictions were tough on restaurants. Seems the current Gatherings and Face Mask Order is also wreaking a special kind of havoc for Michigan cigar bars and lounges, requiring patrons wear masks at all times. In what is perhaps an acknowledgement of the impossibility of smoking through a mask, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services recently sent a memo to clarify the order, stating in part, “This means tobacco specialty retail stores, hookah lounges, cigar bars, and other venues … cannot permit smoking in their facility.”

You can see the problem here.

Alex Engelman, owner of Ernesto’s Cigar Bar & Lounge, in Petoskey, and Andy Hyde, coowner of Nolan’s Cigar Bar, in Traverse City, certainly do.

“This threatens revenue in a way that is not sustainable in the long term,” says Hyde. “We have invested in floor space and equipment designed for people to enjoy a cigar and an adult beverage, which has been out of service for nearly six of the last 12 months. Now, as most other businesses get to open back up, we’re told we can no longer allow smoking.”

The situation is a little like permitting a restaurant to open without allowing it to serve foods or drinks, an irony that isn’t lost on cigar bars like Nolan’s: “Our interpretation is that we are licensed to sell food and beverages and can allow customers to remove their masks to consume those foods and beverages,” he says. “We are exempt from Michigan’s Smoke-Free Indoor Air Law, so customers can certainly smoke a cigar while they have their mask off.”

Pieced, Layered & Stitched Unless you’re a quilter, when someone invites you to check out a quilt exhibit, your response probably: yawn. That’s probably because you haven’t yet seen something like the Jordan River Arts Council’s show of small quilts exhibiting now. Focused on an architectural theme, the quilts here showcase structure and scenes that are anything but square. See a downtown cityscape, domed palaces, a witch’s hovel pulled up by the roots, and one whose cut and ruffled cloth seems to hide a heckuva story, Sarah BearupNeal’s first-prize-winning “He Burned the House Down on the Way Out” (pictured above).

Check out the exhibit in person 1pm–4pm Saturdays or Sundays through April 2 or make an appointment at www.jordanriverarts.com.

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Eagles Coming North to Roost — and Rehab

The first tribal eagle aviary center east of the Mississippi River is coming to Harbor Springs. Doug Craven, director of natural resources for the Little Traverse Bay Bands (LTBB) of Odawa Indians, and Rebecca Lessard, founder of the Leelanau nonprofit Wings of Wonder (WOW) raptor rehabilitation center, officially announced they’re partnering to build Migizi Aviary and Rehabilitation Center. The center, whose design is already underway with guidance from tribally owned Seven Generations Architecture + Engineering, in Kalamazoo, will be located on LTBB land just north of Harbor Springs. Lessard, who closed WOW in November after 30 years of operations, will oversee the raptor rehab and provide training expertise as Craven and his team earn their required hours of eagle handling.

“Migizi, eagles, are highly revered within Photo courtesy of Alred Kenneal Odawa culture and are central to many traditional teachings. We take great pride in and are honored to take a leading role in safeguarding and caring for these sacred birds,” said Craven in a release about the project.

“Looking into the eyes of eagles, watching them take flight as they are released back into the wild, it is no wonder that Native Americans revere them,” adds Lessard. “What a joy to be able to help the tribe establish a space of sanctuary and healing for these extraordinary creatures.”

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While you can certainly stay inside the distillery to sip your Hipster Water ($12) — or any of the top-tier-tasting cocktails just revealed on Ethanology’s spring menu — we recommend you take advantage of cozying up in one of the six-person yurts, complete with wood-burning stove, for 75 minutes of spectacular sipping. (Note: Reservations will only be granted upon arrival to a single household of 6 people or fewer.) Find Ethanology at 127 Ames St., in Elk Rapid. (231) 498-2800, www.ethanologydistillation.com

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Recall elections, or at least the threat of them, are suddenly all the rage. We’ll recall Republicans who supported the Donald Trump impeachment and recall Democrats who initiated pandemic-related restrictions.

Almost none will succeed.

a special statewide election in California might cost as much as $80 million. Political decisions and policy choices aren’t usually considered sufficiently egregious to warrant a recall.

In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom has been the target of five recall efforts, and the current permutation, unlike the others, has a chance to make the ballot. The reasons for the recall, as stated in the language on the recall petitions, are high taxes, California’s seemingly intractable homeless crisis, lax response to illegal immigration, and Newsom’s opposition to the death penalty.

Former state Rep. Larry Inman was the target of one such effort, as were several members of the Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS) board. None made the ballot.

We’ve had our own wave of attempted recalls in Michigan.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could be the recall champion, or at least the current

Only three times in the country’s history has the recall of a governor even made the ballot: in North Dakota, in 1921; the Davis recall; and an unsuccessful, more recent effort to oust Scott Walker in Wisconsin.

The recall team must submit slightly more than 1.4 million valid signatures prior to March 17 to make it to the ballot. If successful, Californians will then have a special election with a two-part ballot asking voters if Newsom should be recalled and which of the many candidates on the ballot should replace him.

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(When Gray Davis was successfully recalled in 2003, there were 135 candidates on the ballot, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, who won.)

Michigan recall petitions must be created with language justifying the recall, they must then be submitted to the Board of State Canvassers for “clarity and factuality.”

Once approved, the petition gatherers have 60 days to collect more than a million valid signatures to qualify for the ballot.

The debate over Newsom’s future has drifted a bit from the petition language. What started as a collection of business interests and conservatives anxious to be rid of him has expanded to include those opposed to his pandemic orders closing schools and small businesses, as well as a poor vaccine rollout.

In 2012, the form of recall elections in Michigan was changed from the two-part California system to a single choice: Now the targeted incumbent is automatically on the ballot versus all opponents. A vote for anyone other than the recall target is a presumptive affirmative vote to recall.

There is nothing especially unusual about this in California; there have been 55 recall efforts since 1913. In fact, all but two governors in that time have at least been threatened with a recall, but only one, ousting Gray Davis, was successful. Only three times in the country’s history has the recall of a governor even made the ballot: in North Dakota, in 1921; the Davis recall; and an unsuccessful, more recent effort to oust Scott Walker in Wisconsin.

Of the 20 efforts against Whitmer, nine did not even qualify to circulate petitions, and the other 11 did not or have not acquired sufficient signatures.

The 20 states allowing recalls, including Michigan, have made those efforts challenging, requiring massive signature gathering in short windows, with an equally short time to organize and carry out a campaign. There is a good reason for both the difficulty getting on the ballot — less than 5 percent of recall efforts get that far — and the lack of success for those that do — less than 10 percent succeed in ousting the recall target.

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leader. At one point she was the target of 20 separate such efforts, most of which pointed to her executive orders, since ruled unconstitutional, during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

That reason is we have regularly scheduled elections already. Voters prefer to punish political rascals at the regularly scheduled time rather than bother with special elections. Gov. Newsom, for example, must run for reelection next year, anyway, and

Despite growing opposition to Newsom, it’s not likely a governor who received nearly 62 percent of the vote during the last election in a deep blue state and must run again in 2022 will be recalled. However, there is significant angst in California regarding multiple issues, and it appears the recall effort might submit sufficient signatures to get on the ballot.

Opponents are already lining up.

Whitmer was not such a dominant winner in 2018, securing less than 53 percent of the vote. The recall efforts against her have been both poorly organized and financed, and a majority of the state still approves her handling of the pandemic, though that support is shrinking.

Regardless, recall is an expensive and poor option, except in cases of the most onerous behavior. Whitmer’s detractors can loudly state their case to the voters next year. We don’t really need another divisive election in the meantime.

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While folks in northern Michigan have grown accustomed to apps like Grubhub and UberEats for easy and convenient lunch deliveries, GangaRunner might not be a household name … yet. In California, the pandemic prompted a major surge in cannabis delivery, and the rest of the country is quickly following suit in seeking out such a safe and convenient service.

Delivery is simply an extension of the retail storefront. Customers place orders online, the orders are fulfilled at dispensaries, and the product is transferred to the customer at their home. Right now, online ordering is very fragmented because each delivery-approved retailer effectively has their own website for online ordering. This will soon change as aggregators like GangaRunner synthesize the various online ordering databases from participating dispensaries into a more streamlined and customer-friendly platform.

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TURN THE CITY OVER TO THE DOGS opinion Wait, What?

On Feb. 23, Siriporn Niamrin, 49, discovered a large, waxy, oval-shaped lump that smelled of fish and weighed about 15 pounds along the beach near her home in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, Thailand, and was excited to learn it may be a rare substance called ambergris, or vomit produced by sperm whales. The Mirror reported ambergris is highly prized in making perfume, and it might be worth as much as $260,000. “If I really have the genuine ambergris, I can help my community once I find a buyer for it,” Niamrin said. “I’m keeping it safe in my house” as she waits for expert confirmation of its authenticity.

Multitasking Northern California plastic surgeon Scott Green surprised officials in Sacramento Superior Court on Feb. 25 when he appeared for a traffic trial via videoconference from what appeared to be an operating room, the Sacramento Bee reported. As clicks and whirs of medical equipment and suctions could be heard in the background, a courtroom clerk questioned his whereabouts, and Green, dressed in hospital scrubs, admitted, “Yes, I’m in an operating room right now.

I’m available for trial. Go right ahead.”

Despite Green’s repeated assurances, Court Commissioner Gary Link was skeptical: “I do not feel comfortable for the welfare of a patient if you’re in the process of operating ...

I don’t think that’s appropriate.” The trial was rescheduled for later in March. California’s Medical Board said in a statement it was investigating the incident.

a stowaway cat caused a midair emergency.

The cat gained entry to the cockpit and became aggressive, attacking the crew, who were unable to restrain it, prompting the pilot to return to the airport. Officials believe the cat got onto the airplane while it was parked overnight in a hangar in Khartoum.

Inexplicable Natasha Harris of Lillian, Alabama, called the Baldwin County Sheriff ’s office on Feb. 28 after her granddaughter’s pet goat, Billy the Kid, returned home from one of his frequent adventures around their rural neighborhood painted from head to toe.

Harris told Fox 10 News she suspected local teens had stolen and abused the goat, but investigators followed the goat’s trail to Erica Farmer, who was visiting relatives nearby, and arrested her for theft of property and animal cruelty. Farmer has since apologized for dying the goat with colored shampoo and food coloring, and Harris now wants the charges dropped, telling the district attorney’s office, “I’m really sorry for wasting your time.”

Just Desserts In late February, Thangulla Satish, 45, was killed in Telangana state in southern India when the rooster he was preparing for an illegal cockfight panicked and slashed him with the 3-inch blade strapped to its leg. Police inspector B. Jeevan said Satish was “hit by the rooster’s knife in his groin and started bleeding heavily,” the Associated Press reported. He died on the way to the hospital. The rooster was removed to a poultry farm nearby.

Crime Report Sharon Carr of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was arested by officers responding to a residential burglary call on Feb. 26 when she stepped from the shadows in front of the victim’s house. Investigators found a window screen removed and a window open, where they allege Carr entered the home but quickly left, leaving behind an empty Cheetos bag and a water bottle.

Cheetos residue on Carr’s teeth linked her to the crime, reported KTUL-TV, along with testimony from the victim. Carr was charged with first-degree burglary.

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Mates Jackson Perry and Noah Palmer of Mandurah, Western Australia, planned a leisurely float offshore, drinking beer on a blowup air mattress on Feb. 27, but they wound up stranded in the Indian Ocean for nearly three hours after the wind blew them out to sea. “We couldn’t paddle against the wind, and we just kept going further and further out,” Perry told 7News, but they did manage to call a friend, who reached them on his jet ski just before their cellphones died. “We were kind of getting worried at that point,” Perry said, but the beers helped with the anxiety.

The Foreign Press Diplomats and their families from the Russian embassy in Pyongyang, North Korea, worked around extreme COVIDinduced travel restrictions by pushing themselves across the border in a rail trolley to reach their home country on Feb. 25, the BBC reported. The group of eight, including children, traveled 32 hours by train and two hours by bus to reach the Russian border, but trains and wagons cannot enter or leave North Korea, so the embassy’s third secretary, Vladislav Sorokin, completed the last halfmile of the journey by pushing the trolley filled with the group and their baggage on train tracks over the Tumen River, where they were met by Russian officials at the border station.

Mystery Police in Hertfordshire, England, received about 100 complaints over a three-day period from people parked at a Tesco store in Royston who reported their car alarms inexplicably went off, and they couldn’t use their key fobs to lock or unlock their vehicles. Communications watchdog company Ofcom told the BBC in March 1 its investigators checked the area for signs of interference, but found nothing. No cars have been reported stolen, and police said they were not treating the incidents as malicious.

Animal Antics EuroWeekly reported that on Feb. 24, a routine Sudanese Tarco airline flight from Khartoum to Doha, Qatar, was forced to turn around about a half-hour after takeoff when

Devil’s in the Details Amazon released a new icon for its shopping app in January with what was supposed to look like a jagged piece of tape on a package above Amazon’s smiling arrow logo but instead reminded some viewers of Adolf Hitler’s mustache, CBS News reported. After Twitter users commented on the resemblance, Amazon tweaked the art and rolled out a more squared-off version in late February.

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gary howe We’d heard that they were coming, but we didn’t know how long they’d stay. The public didn’t usually take time to attend our monthly Parks and Recreation Commission meetings.

Still, on this particular Thursday evening, 10 long years ago, a controversial project on West Bay was on the agenda. As we expected, over 100 people came to speak on it.

The other group of individuals we’d heard were coming sat patiently in the back of the room. They weren’t there for the controversy.

They weren’t even on the agenda. They were there to request that Traverse City build the area’s first off-leash dog park. They might as well have been asking to put dogs on Mars.

The city was in the middle of a multimilliondollar transformation of its bayfront. The parks and rec commission — although it was growing in importance — was still an advisory body with no authority. Any progress that came out of the commission came from the sheer doggedness of city residents and the commission’s volunteer members.

That spring night, when we finally made it to the point in the meeting where the general public gets to comment, two citizen advocates, Jami and Levi, rose from their seats in the back to propose a dog park within the city limits on behalf of their small group of supporters. They explained that their previous attemps outside of the city limits had been unsuccessful. “It’s just a fence,” they said to the commission. “We can do this before summer starts. Traverse City can do this.”

It’s no secret that I prefer dogs over people, generally speaking. When I travel to other cities and towns, I visit the places people set aside for dogs to run and play. So I was strongly sympathetic to Jami and Levi’s cause. As a parks and rec commission member, I knew that the city had recently added the establishment of a dog park to its five-year plan. And as an observer of local politics, I knew that this request from a small group of citizens for a dog park didn’t stand much of a chance in the city manager’s office or with the city commission, even with our commission’s recommendation; in 2011, the city’s top leaders were focused on reducing staff, reducing costs, and paving roads. If we were to wag the dog on this one, we’d need a plan.

“I’m with you,” I told Jami and Levi after the meeting. “I appreciate your optimism, but we need to work on your timeline. Success is going to take a lot of work.” They left, suspicious but committed. A month later, they returned to our monthly meeting to remind us of their request, and the parks and rec commission created a subcommittee to work with the dogpark champions.

We didn’t open the dog park before summer, as Jami and Levi had hoped. Advocacy for good, even for good dogs, is rarely a straight line. It took over a year and a half to open Wags West, which is still today the city’s only off-leash dog park (there’s now also Silver Lake Dog Park 10 minutes west of town). It took nine months to develop a plan and get it before the city commission. It took another six months for the city to bid for fencing. It took the better part of a year to raise the $30,000 it

cost to build the park. It took a few more years to add water stations and a donor sign. Thank you, everyone.

To navigate this long journey from civicimprovement idea to public-infrastructure reality, we created a vision and a step-bystep plan to get there. The schedule kept us optimistic when obstacles nipped at our heels and howls of opposition filled the skies. Here’s how we approached it: We set a clear goal. We wanted an off-leash dog park, where dogs and people could socialize, in the city. We referred to it as an offleash human park. We wanted to bring people together as much as we wanted to make lives better for our canine friends.

We defined the issue. Dog parks were becoming increasingly popular around the country. Formal dog parks in the U.S. took off in 1979, but there wasn’t a single dog park in our region when we began this process in 2011. Establishing an off-leash dog park would meet the growing number of dog owners’ needs and improve the City’s quality of life and economic vitality.

We built a coalition. We launched an outreach strategy that included a public survey on the issue and awareness-building events around the community. Businesses showed their pro-dog tags by signing on and promoting the cause. As the coalition grew, so did the momentum.

We identified obstacles. Funding was chief among the project’s barriers to success.

We knew the city commission would not acquiesce to any money coming from the city’s budget. So we raised money. The parks and rec commission also held public hearings and listened to concerns. My favorite came from a gentleman who proudly stood up and told us, “I live near the proposed site. I can see why you chose it and agree it is a good location.

I came today to let you know I don’t want it near me, but I wish you good luck.” After the meeting, we walked the site with him and talked about ways to improve our plans.

We stuck to our plan. All good plans are adapted as they meet the realities of time. Our path to dog park glory had its share of twists and turns. But we kept our noses on the scent and reached our quarry.

We celebrated. In any endeavor, an essential step is the celebration of victories. After we were approved, we celebrated with a MardiPaws celebration. And when the fence was complete in the fall of 2012, we threw a party in the park with dogs and humans to attend off-leash. There were prizes, costumes, and plenty of ear scratching.

Eight years later, we’re still celebrating. We champions have all gone our separate ways, but every time we pass the corner of Division Road and Bay Street, we shout out to the dogs and people happily enjoying a place reserved for them to be themselves. We also bay encouragement to others looking to make their community better. Stay on the hunt.

Gary Howe served on Traverse City’s Parks and Recreation Commission from 2009–2014.

Pilsners take their name from Pilsner Urquell, the brewery that gave the world its first pale lager in 1842. The brewery, which is today the largest brewer and exporter of beer in the Czech Republic, is headquartered in the city of Pilsen, aka Plzeñ, about 50 miles west of Prague.

Indoor and outdoor seating are available at Farm Club, as is a tent with a wood-burning stove and capacity for eight that can be reserved for a five course meal (four-guest minimum) at $50 per adult, $25 per child. Pilsners (and other beer and drinks) a la carte. www.farmclubtc.com

Focus on the Foam On a small farm in Leelanau County, the oft-overlooked final step of brewing — the pour — is giving lager lovers a taste of an international art form.

By Karl Klockars As Farm Club approaches its first full year in business, it’s appropriate to look at some of the things that the agriculturally focused brewery, restaurant, and market has brought to the Traverse City area.

A destination for literal farm-to-table vegetable-focused cuisine? Check. A market for local craftspeople to sell their products, and a home for thoughtful lagers and farmhouse-style ales? Check and check. Perhaps the only place in Michigan to offer draft lager beer from special side-handle faucets? Check … er, Czech.

If you look behind Farm Club’s bar and focus on their series of beer taps, on the righthand side you’ll notice two odd-looking wooden handles emerging sideways from the wall. Farm Club had these special faucets shipped from the Czech Republic, where they were popularized by breweries like Pilsner Urquell, home to the world’s first pale lager. These tap handles aren’t just pretty; they’re designed to allow bartenders to control the velocity of beer being poured, which gives them a greater ability to control not just the amount of foam topping the beer but also its density.

What does that mean for the drinker? Well, far more than scoring an Instagram-perfect head of thick, dense, wet cappuccino-esque foam on top of your mug of lager.

“It creates a beautiful looking beer, first of all, but more important is that when you’re making these subtle beers like the dark lager and pilsner, every little aspect of the beer is really important,” explains Farm Club owner Gary Jonas. “The

mouthfeel is really, really important. And when you have these like tiny little bubbles come through with a nice big head on top … I think for me, that makes a big difference in the drinkability of it.”

“Here’s where nuance really matters,” brewer Corey Valdez says about the full range of decisions that go into their lager beers — which include their dark Czech lager and bright, snappy pilsner. “It’s ingredient selection, brewing process, fermentation … but the unspoken part of that process is the carbonation and storage.”

These beers are even brewed a little differently to capture the power of the pour a little better.

“Pilsner’s got this nice bite to it at the end — or the ideal pilsner does, anyway,” says Valdez. “[This handle] really softens up the carbonation, and that can affect perceived bitterness. And so what you might do is in terms of recipes, you might bump up the carbonation, you might bump up the bitterness to kind of get that ‘snap’ back.”

If it helps to think about it this way while you’re sipping a lager and looking out over Farm Club’s verdant fields this summer, imagine this: The brewhouse in the back builds the flavors and body of the beer, while adjustments to mouthfeel, fragrance, and head come courtesy of the artistry perfected at the front of the bar. When you think about how important a beer’s aroma, feel, and look are to the overall beer-drinking experience, it’s a bit amazing that the last step, the pour, is often the least considered.

If you’re wondering if these handles take a special kind of touch or finesse to get a perfect pour, the answer is a definite yes. “A new bartender pouring any beer from any draft pulls,

you’ve got to go through the training process.

This one definitely is another process for sure,” Jonas says. “And not everybody can do it. So this summer we might have one or two bartenders that are only pouring beer. And that’s their job.

Because it’s that important.”

To get the perfect pour, you do have to break a couple of rules of traditional beer service. First, the faucet gets placed inside the glass and is submerged in the beer — a definite no-no when it comes to your usual beer handles. The other: foam first. “If you go to a Pilsner Urquell bar, and they pour you one of these, the standard there is foam first, then you put the beer under it,” Valdez says. “You submerge the tap, and then you fill it slowly to maintain that foam.”

“You want to have that head with every sip,” Jonas adds. “You miss it when it’s gone.” (This type of pour also lends itself to some beautiful rings of lacing on the inside of the glass — something to appreciate even when your glass of beer is emptied.)

If you’re patient, these handles even allow the creation of a beer head so dense it can rise up out of the glass and tower over the top. If you’ve ever heard someone raving about the famed Slow Pour Pils from Denver’s Bierstadt Lagerhaus after a trip to the Great American Beer Festival, it’s that beer and brewery that served as the impetus for a lot of the newfound popularity of side-pour handles over the last few years. However, Farm Club’s inspiration came from a place significantly further east.

“We took a trip out to Vermont, to Hill Farmstead, before opening this, and that was always talked about as an inspirational brewery.

We liked what they were doing,” Jonas says. (For

those unfamiliar, Hill Farmstead has been named Best Brewery in the World by the RateBeer Best awards no less than seven times.) “And they had these [handles], and we felt like it really contributed to a lot of aspects of the beer. It was something that we had to do, especially when we decided that we wanted to focus on the lager program … yeah, it was kind of a no-brainer.”

Beyond just the orientation of the handle, even the internal construction of the side-pour is different. “The typical draft handle is a plunger valve — it’s basically a binary switch,” Valdez says, whereas the side pour handle has a variable ball valve, which allows a lot more finesse. “[It] allows you to control the flow, but in addition to that, there’s a small, fine screen at the tip of the tap that drags out a little bit of extra CO2 and creates a kind of dense, wet foam on top.”

Since these handles are of a European origin, even the installation was different, requiring conversions to metric: “All the sizes are slightly different than what we use in the U.S., so we had to get special tools, and the guy who installed it had never worked with this before — it was a puzzle, but we managed to figure it out,” Jonas said.

All of this adds up to not just a better beer, but also a greater connection to the global beer community. From the central European country where pilsner originated, to a farm brewery in Vermont, to a farm brewery in northern Michigan, it’s a small but important link to beer’s history.

“The performance part of it — that’s always been a really thrilling part. It’s almost like a cool social ritual that you get to experience,” Valdez says. “It’s a connection to a world beer culture. All that stuff is part of the allure.”

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One of the largest infrastructure projects in United States history, the Central Arizona Project moves water from the Colorado River across the desert to Phoenix.

The watersheds that feed the river and its crucial reservoirs are now facing their driest years on record.

Why We Need to Care About Global Water Scarcity Now Hear from Traverse City native and Circle of Blue Founder J. Carl Ganter

By Craig Manning What happens when the taps run dry?

That’s one of the key questions J. Carl Ganter will discuss at 5pm Thursday, March 18, during an event for the Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) International Affairs Forum (IAF) titled “Global to Local: Climate Change, Water, and Food.”

The event will address how issues of water scarcity, pollution, and climate fluctuations could affect everything from the agricultural supply chain to global conflict.

Born and raised in Traverse City, Ganter is an esteemed photojournalist whose work has appeared in publicationd from Newsweek to Rolling Stone. He’s also the founder of Circle of Blue, a journalistic organization that seeks to shine a light on global issues involving “water, food, and energy in a changing climate.” His IAF presentation will take attendees from the favelas of São Paulo, Brazil, to the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia, pairing Ganter’s firsthand accounts with photos that encapsulate growing crises of water accessibility, scarcity, and pollution.

“It’s easy to get stuck in numbers and abstracts when discussing matters like water and climate change,” Ganter said of his presentation. “My mission is to connect the dots on the ground with the issues, and then

to make those stories relevant to anyone, whether it’s kids in a classroom or global leaders on a major forum stage.”

Northern Express caught up with Ganter ahead of his IAF event to discuss the global implications of water scarcity, the potential consequences of letting the issue go unaddressed, and why northern Michigan locals should start paying attention right now.

Northern Express: You’ve said before — and many environmentalists agree with you — that water is going to be the driving issue of the 21st century. National Geographic recently ran a story about the relative fragility of the Great Lakes ecosystem and about how it’s the most important resource our continent has. Tell us a bit about what the “status quo” is at the moment, for water issues.

Carl Ganter: You used the two best words: “fragility” and “system.” Water is what defines us. That’s why the first thing we do when we go to Mars is look for water. It’s this magical molecule, and life as we know it wouldn’t exist without it. But that system is incredibly fragile and finite. There’s only so much water on the planet, and we’re not making more.

So we face a grand kind of crisis, a system crisis, and water is absolutely at the core, because it’s at the core of everything we

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care about.

When we talk about water, we’re talking about food, because most water use goes to agriculture. When we talk about water, we’re talking about energy and energy production. When we talk about climate, whether it just climate or climate change, water is the definer.

More and more, we are seeing stress points in the world [in terms of water]. We have very large urban centers on the brink of what a headline writer in South Africa termed “Day Zero,” which means the day when taps could run dry. Imagine a major city like São Paulo; Chennai, India; Cape Town, South Africa; imagine what happens if the taps actually run dry. [Those cities] came very close to running out of water.

When rainfall patterns were changing, or the rain gods didn’t smile, the reservoirs neared single-digit capacity.

If you’re in a township in Cape Town or Johannesburg, or a slum in Delhi, you typically have to walk to get your water. It may not be safe to drink; you may have to boil it. And then the sanitation side is pretty dismal. Some billion people on the planet don’t have access to safe drinking water on a regular basis. And some 2 billion don’t have adequate sanitation. If you don’t have sanitation, it contaminates the water.

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Ganter Another side is the potential for We’ve seen water be a force-multiplying factor: Syria, Arab Spring, and other kinds of crucibles around the world, where water could be a point of serious contention.

Express: Living where we do, surrounded by beautiful freshwater every day, it’s hard not to care about it at least a little bit, but it’s also easy to take for granted. Why should locals care about the topics you’ll be discussing, and what should they know as we face the future of this water crisis?

Ganter: Tens of millions of people rely on the Great Lakes for drinking water.

We’re not at a Day Zero situation, unlike other parts of the world, but we have serious threats to the Great Lakes. Toxic waste sites, chemicals coming in through the atmosphere, invasive species, management of the water supply and the infrastructure that we build around the Great Lakes. We’ve read about toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie, which in 2014 shut down drinking water for Toledo for three days. Those algae blooms are entirely avoidable; primarily, that’s extra nutrient runoff from farm fields [causing the issue].

There’s a term “blue economy,” which asks: what role does water play in your economy? The economy of the entire Great Lakes Basin is built on water. A recent report from the intelligence community in Washington says something like half of the jobs around the world have a direct link to water. So water isn’t just ecology and environment; it’s not something that can be sublimated. It has to be right upfront — in our decision-making about national security, about economic security, about health, about energy, about food. It’s the thread that ties everything together.

Express: We’ve gotten an unusual glimpse over the past year into what can happen when the supply chain stops working, including in terms of food production and food processing.

How does food supply link into water?

Ganter: Around the world, ag uses about 70 percent of water withdrawals for growing, for irrigation. The ramifications of that get us into perception and reality, they get us

into climate change, and they get us into economics. Let’s say you’re a farmer in Punjab, India, and you believe that there’s plenty of water underground for your irrigation, for growing your rice or your wheat. Then your farm community lobbies for free electricity, because you’re the backbone of the country and you feed the nation! What do you do in a free electricity? You leave your lights on.

In Punjab, they leave their pumps running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The farm that I was on, their switches are literally hardwired, so they can’t turn the water off.

The problem is what happens when that runs dry. [The farmer’s] field is barren and parched, and their well has run dry. Maybe they drill deeper. If that doesn’t work, maybe they turn to other sources of water. Even if there is raw sewage coming from that village over there, they’re going to drop a hose in the canal and pump from that. And if that’s not enough — and this is a true story — then there’s another flow of water from the paper mill upstream.

So now you’re irrigating with a mix of toxic waste and sewage. How does that affect the supply chain? How does that affect the beets or the onions or the rice that you’re growing, now that you’re literally growing it with toxic waste? That is one future, and it’s not a very bright one.

But on the positive side, you do have this moment where all these issues are coming together. Companies are realizing that a supply chain risk means risk to their bottom line; it means risks to the reputation; it means risks to their brands. Company and government leaders are, more and more,

being held accountable for the demands for clean water and even sanitation.

People are waking up to it, but we’re not moving fast enough. These issues are complex, and in many ways, the water story is fragmented.

It needs more connected storytelling and more cohesion. It needs more coordinated action.

The agricultural sector, the energy sector, the water sector: they all need to work together.

They are still on different planes. It’s very siloed.

One thing [Circle of Blue] is working hard to change is to break those silos.

Express: In northern Michigan, there have been big initiatives from local government to move us toward greater use of renewable energy. How can we aim higher, both as individuals and a collective, to avert or reduce the scope of these catastrophes you’re talking about?

Ganter: The good news is that here in the Grand Traverse region, we have a whole range of organizations that are taking on different slices of the issue. At Circle of Blue, we’re telling the stories in the Great Lakes and around the world; imagine us as the journalists. Then other organizations like FLOW, are working on the policy piece.

And then you have the education piece, and we have the NMC Water Studies Institute — which is really unique in the world — right here. We have these leadership organizations, right in our background, so how do we activate that at a higher level to have [more of a regional, national, and global] impact? I think that’s the really big question.

Express: Looking forward, there are a lot of worst-case scenarios here, from longterm health complications, to climate change

Clockwise from top left: In the Thar Desert south of Jaisalmer, India, these girls walk for hours a day through blazing heat to fetch water for their family. According to the United Nations, some 2 billion people around the world live without access to an adequate supply of safe drinking water, which stresses economic stability, human health, environmental sustainability, and national security.

Children play in the alleys of São Paulo’s Portelinha favela, where residents have devised creative ways to channel rain water and sewage away from their makeshift homes.

In 2015, Sao Paulo nearly ran out of water. Dozens of major cities worldwide face a “Day Zero” scenario — the day when their water supplies could run dry.

In the southwest corner of China, a region of towering mountains, deep gorges, and scattered villages not far from the border of Vietnam, deforestation has caused most fertile soil to wash away, hurting crops and degrading water supplies.

A young girl climbs on an undocumented well in Delhi, where millions rely on illegally pumped groundwater or collecting water from leaks in city pipes. Circle of Blue reports that the nation of 1.3 billion people, by failing to protect its water, is courting disease and economic hardship as well as social upheaval.

putting coastal communities underwater, to a world war fought over fresh water resources.

What are some of the things individuals can start thinking about right now to pave the way toward a brighter future?

Ganter: The first step is understanding where your water comes from, and where it goes. And then pay attention to the policies, pay attention to the investments that communities are making. Because that’s the biggest lever: it’s building and supporting the community response, the preparedness and resiliency, and putting water at the top.

Because it’s that old adage: We really don’t care about water until the taps run dry.

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By Amy Martin The following five men and women — every one under the age of 30 — are part of a new generation of brewers shaping the future of Up North’s beer scene. Here’s a look at their unfiltered love for beer making, their favorite beers to brew, and how they cut their teeth in an industry you can’t even take a taste of until age 21.

Thomas Hodges, 29

Ellie Maddelein, 22

Thomas Hodges’ brewing journey began in 2010, making hard cider at home and working in his local homebrew supply store in Lansing, Michigan. He submerged himself in brewing information, spending all of his downtime reading books, blogs, and anything else he could learn from. Things really took off when he secured an internship at Mountain Town Brewing Company, in Mountain Pleasant, and was hired in soon after.

Hodges’ favorite style of beer to brew are lagers; he says enjoys the challenge.

“Any brewer will tell you they require the most finesse. Flaws in most lagers are really easy to detect, so your process has to be dialed. They challenge your skills, for as simple as they are, I find them the hardest” he says.

When asked if his age has affected his progress in the brewing world, Hodges shared that even though he was only 21 when he entered the industry, he never felt that he was treated differently by his coworkers, all of whom respected his good work ethic and willingness to learn.

“Where I did find difficulty was at events and beer festivals, with the customers.

It’s hard to talk to an overwhelmingly older crowd when you barely look old enough to drink. Even talking to other brewers, I had to sort of prove I knew what I was talking about,” says Hodges. “I think being young in any industry can be tough, you just have to have the right attitude about it.”

When he’s not brewing, Hodges can be found camping, hiking, dirt biking, snowboarding, and most recently began training to be a pilot.

Ellie Maddelein knew she wanted to be a professional brewer at the age of 16. For her, the passion began with a trip to Oregon with her dad, and a visit to Rogue Ales. The entrance took them right through the brewery and gave her an up-close view of the beer-making process, and she immediately fell in love.

“From that point on I knew I wanted to be a brewer, and I would do whatever I had to in order to get there,” says Maddelein.

She started homebrewing after that fateful trip, and following high school, earned a Sustainable Brewing Bachelor of Science at Western Michigan University, as well as a Brewing Science Certificate from Kalamazoo Valley Community College.

Maddelein says she can’t really choose her favorite part of being a brewer— every day it’s a different thing. She loves hearing people’s excited feedback of a beer she’s made, the smell of the hops, the physicality of the process, and having the unique knowledge that enables her to take things apart and put them back together.

One drawback: She admits she gets treated differently in the brewing industry because of her age — and her gender.

“Helping out in the bar as a young female, customers talk down to me, and yet they’re drinking what I just made them,” she explains. She also shared that as a young brewer, “You have to carry yourself in a certain way so people don’t think you’re just a kid.”

On the flip side, she does enjoy being a younger member of the industry because she can share her passion with other young adults and show that beer isn’t just about getting drunk.

As a peer, she says she believes she’s taken more seriously than if an older person were having that conversation.

Brewer at The Filling Station Microbrewery

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Assistant Brewer at Five Shores Brewing

Jordan Scholl, 22

Brewer at Stiggs Brewery & Kitchen Jordan Scholl began brewing at the age of 15, then started brewing professionally at 18.

“It has always ‘rustled my jimmies’ to create new flavors and have fun with everything the earth has to offer,” says Scholl of her early entrance into the industry. It started innocently enough, she notes: “I began making my own tea originally and realized I had a knack with different flavors, and this is where my passion for brewing began.”

Having started brewing at such a young age, she was faced with challenges but says she gained a lot of respect from people once they realized how knowledgeable she was.

“At first a lot of folks thought I was just making some closet beer for me and my friends, but as I would talk about all the books I’ve read and how much passion I had, they saw it was much more than that for me,” Scholl says.

Officially, her career started at Short’s Brewing Company, but Scholl says she believes that hands-on learning and experimenting is the best experience anyone interested in brewing can get.

She admits she’s heard many comments that “brewing is a man’s job” over the years, but she never let it get to her. Instead, she joined Fermenta — a nonprofit trade group with the mission of educating women in the craft beer industry — which helped her realize she is hardly alone as a female in the brewing industry.

Scholl’s favorite styles of beer to brew are porters and stouts, because of the incredible aromas they emit during the process. When not brewing, you can find her snowboarding or wakeboarding.

James Warren, 29

Chris Schnepf, 28

James Warren has been brewing professionally three or four years and was a homebrewer five years before that, but being a brewer was not his original career path — he earned a bachelor’s of music education from Adrian College.

“Brewing is an interesting industry in that there are professional certificates and degrees now, but it is also something you can just jump into, and with a lot of hard work you can work your way up from the bottom,” says Warren. That’s exactly what he did, starting as a packaging tech at Short’s Brewing Company.

Warren’s favorite part of being a brewer is the troubleshooting that goes along with it. He says he likes being able to work on problems and have them be tangentially related to what he’s producing. He enjoys brewing special one-off beers most, but when it comes to drinking beer, he prefers clean, light styles with a lower alcohol percentage, such as lagers.

“Something with a lot of flavor that you can drink more than one of and not be feeling it,” he adds.

When asked if he felt like he was treated differently in the industry because of his age, he shared that, if anything, he felt like reverse ageism is more prevalent than the alternative. He expanded on this, saying that older members in the industry are treated differently because they’re not able to do the physicality and the labor as much anymore.

Of course, he adds, that’s not to say that perspective is true either: “There are a lot of older folk still kicking as lifers!”

Brewing professionally wasn’t originally on Chris Schnepf ’s radar, who double-majored in music business management and general marketing at Ferris State University. All of that changed when he needed an internship for his degree and landed one in sales and marketing with Revolution Brewing, in Chicago, the summer before his senior year. After concluding his internship, he knew he wanted to stay in the industry but felt called towards brewing rather than sales and marketing.

It was, however, his marketing experience that enabled him to get at least one brewery to take a chance on hiring and training him in the art of beer making.

“My senior year, I went into a local brewery multiple times for a drink, and I wrote a lot of messages on napkins to the brewer just trying to sell myself,” he says.

After finally scoring a meeting with the brewer, Schnepf was hired in and, shortly after, started brewing at the age of 21. He also began exploring another passion: experimenting with a variety of ferments, from kombucha to sauerkraut, because he believes fermentation is an important part of humankind’s preservation and well-being.

Schepf ’s favorite part of being a brewer is recipe writing and experimenting with different ingredients, such as using the same malt but from different countries or maltsters. He especially enjoys brewing Saisons, because they are versatile and be made with a variety of different flavor combinations.

When he first started in the industry, Schnepf said he experienced some anxiety that people were treating him differently because of his age. But over time, his anxiety shrank some as he gained more confidence in himself and his brewing knowledge.

Assistant Brewer at The Workshop Brewing Company

Lead Brewer at Stormcloud Brewing Company

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By Ross Boissoneau Dennis and Shawn Spillane are Irish twins.

For those unfamiliar with the term, it doesn’t mean that the siblings are Irish (though in this case, they are), nor does it mean they were born from the same mother on the same day. (They weren’t.)

The expression means siblings born within a year of one another, particularly those born in the same calendar year. Dennis Spillane was born in January 1958 and Shawn in December.

They were best friends growing up. “That close in age, we were inseparable,” said Shawn.

Dennis said that was true of jobs, when both delivered newspapers (the Free Press in the morning and The Detroit News in the afternoon) or when playing: When kids wood choose sides for sports, Dennis and Shawn always were on the same team. “We went as a pair. There was no discussion, that’s just the way it was going to be. Shawn and I have done everything together.”

That carried into their professional lives as well. Today Dr. Dennis and Dr. Shawn own and operate the Dental Health Care offices in Bellaire and in Acme.

A Wee Bit of History Their parents were first-generation immigrants — their father, John Spillane, hailing from County Cork and their mother, Anna Mary O’Grady, from County Mayo. The two met through the Irish community in Detroit.

(John, incidentally, wasn’t actually “John.” Immigration authorities who either didn’t understand or appreciate the Gaelic spelling and pronunciation of his given name, Sean, changed his name to John on official paperwork. Determined not to let that the same fate befall their family again, Mary and Sean named their third child Shawn.)

Despite the not-so-hospitable welcome, John Spillane believed America held some significant promise for his future.

“After World War II, things were tight in Ireland,” said Dennis, explaining that traditionally, the oldest son was typically the one to inherit money and property from the parents, with the others having to fend for themselves. “Dad was not the oldest brother; and there was nothing there for him.”

So Sean/John emigrated to Newfoundland, making his way to Toronto and then the Detroit area. Anna Mary, the oldest of five sisters, came through via Ellis Island before making her way to Detroit.

After meeting and marrying, the two raised their seven children — Kathleen, Dennis, Shawn, Brian, Sheila, Kevin, and Daniel — in what Dennis described as an ethnic area of Detroit populated by many large Catholic families of many European descents — Irish, Italian and Polish, among others — with a steady eye on the future. “They stressed education,” Dennis said of his parents. It worked; every one of the Spillane kids went to college.

While they put down roots in America, the couple continued to honor and hold tight to their Irish heritage. “They embraced being Americans but never became citizens. Every

other summer we’d go to Ireland. We still have the family farm in County Cork and spent time with aunts and uncles and our grandparents’ house in County Mayo. As we got older, we realized how cool that was,” said Dennis.

When Irish Teeth Are Smiling Shawn said it was an accident during a Little League baseball game that first turned him toward dentistry. “We were shagging fly balls, and one bounced off my glove and hit me right in the front teeth,” he said. A coach took him home, where the neighborhood dentist arrived to reattach his dangling front tooth and repaired it over subsequent visits. Through those appointments, Shawn began bonding with the dentist, eventually deciding it was a career path he wanted to explore.

Not one to be left behind by his little brother, Dennis decided on a career in dentistry as well, again referencing that same dentist. “At the end of the street was a dentist’s office. He was a really nice man. We grew our interest through him. It seemed like a good thing to do,” Dennis said.

Perhaps they had dentistry in their blood; after all, their mother had worked in a dentist’s office in Ireland. Dennis demurs. “It was just a fluke that Mom worked there. We all had to do something,” he said, noting their siblings went into accounting, engineering, and law.

The brothers opened an office in Northville, sold it, and later opened offices in Michigan’s Thumb. But as both had vacation places on Torch Lake, eventually they decided they might as well live in the North full-time.

“We did 20 years there [downstate], so we figured we’d do the next 30 years up here. We do good work for a fair price,” said Dennis.

“We were always going to practice together,” added Dennis. “We bought a practice before Shawn was even done [with dental school]. It’s been a blessed way to practice.”

The Blasted Old Screwball Along the way, Dennis became enamored of restoring wooden boats. When he was working on a boat for his sons, he harkened back to one of their father’s favorite expressions. “When someone was being an idiot or being a clown, our dad would say he’s a ‘blasted old screwball.’

That always brought us all a chuckle. [My sons] said we’ve got to name it for Grandfather.” Thus that wooden boat became Blasted Screwball.

That’s not the only Irish play on words they use. The corporation that owns their offices is Bantry Bay, named for the seacoast in County Cork where their dad lived. Then there’s Liquored Up Irishman, their land holding company.

They’ve now been taking care of patients for nearly three-quarters of a century between them. “It’s 36 this year for me; 37 for Dennis,” Shawn said.

They take pride in their work and in being down to earth. “We’re not ostentatious. We value family, friends, and are fiercely loyal.

This is in honor of our parents and all they did for us,” said Dennis.

Shawn put it more simply. “We’re firstgeneration kids living the American dream.”

mar 13

saturday

11TH ANNUAL FIFTH THIRD BANK (VIRTUAL) LEAPIN’ LEPRECHAUN 5K: Register now & run/walk anytime between March 1331. Get a swag bag, complete with a pair of lucky socks.

Starts at $30 plus sign-up fee; increases after Feb. 28. leapinleprechauntc.com

---------------------CELEBRATE ST. PATTY’S DAY: 10am-11pm, Downtown Bellaire. Participating merchants will have food & drink specials & shopping sales. bellairechamber.org

---------------------DOG SLED RIDES: Shanty Creek Resort, Schuss Mountain, Nordic Center, Bellaire.

Second Hand Mushers Rescue will give dog sled rides. They are offered every 30 minutes from 11am - 1:30pm. Face masks required.

Reserve your spot: 866-695-5010. $65 per ride. secondchancemushersrescue.com/dogsled-rides.html

---------------------ST. PATRICKS CELEBRATION: Otsego Resort, Gaylord. All day at the River Cabin: Irish food & music. All day Resort wide: Bead Hunt.

Noon at River Cabin: Craft Brew Cruise & Winter Wine Walk. 2pm at Slopeside Bar: Costume Contest. 4pm at The Sitzmark: Bead Hunt judging. otsegoclub.com

---------------------CRAFT BREW CRUISE: 12-3pm, Otsego Resort, Gaylord. Enjoy a scenic winter walk from the historic River Cabin to the Beaver Dam where a roaring fire will be waiting. Featuring four beer stations paired with light apps. $35. otsegoclub.com/event/the-craft-brew-cruise

---------------------SPRING CARNIVAL: Noon, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Featuring tunes by Slopeside DJ, an on-slope scavenger hunt, trivia, Candy Jar Challenge, & a costume contest - wear your best aloha gear. crystalmountain.com/event/ spring-carnival

mar 14

sunday

BATTLE OF THE BOOKS: 2pm. Battle of the Books is a book-based quiz competition for fourth & fifth graders in the Grand Traverse community.

Kids read stories together & then compete. The winning team is rewarded with the Championship VIP Prize. Teams also have a chance to win prizes for sportsmanship, team spirit, most creative team name & more. The Mock Battles are held on Feb. 20 on Zoom; Team Battle Day on March 6 on Zoom; Semifinals on March 7 on Zoom; & Championship & All-Team Finale & Author Presentation with Shelley Pearsall on March 14. battleofthebooksgt.com

HAPPY HOUR DRINK SPECIALS Tues - 4-8pm: The Pocket Mon March 16- $5 martinis, $5 domestic beer pitcher, $10 craft beer pitcher.

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MASHUP ROCK & ROLL MUSICAL ZOOMATHON: 11am. Join the Mashup Troupe in an old school telethon style fundraiser. Twelve hours of special performances, celebrity guests, games, music, & plenty of weird, all delivered to your computer screen. Mashup Rock & Roll Musical is 501(c)(3) nonprofit theatre troupe which has been producing original musicals in TC since 2013. Free. mashuprockandrollmusical.com

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mar 15

monday

MAINTAINING MUSCLE MASS AS WE AGE: 11am.

Health & Wellness Series in partnership with Northern Michigan Sports Medicine Center.

Featuring Jeff Samyn, PT, OCS, CSCS. Held online.

Register. Free. ncmclifelonglearning.com/ event-4150253/Registration

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mar 16

tuesday

NCMC INTERNATIONAL LECTURE: Noon.

Rev. Wayne Dziekan will use his field experience as an immigration advocate & his work on Catholic social doctrine to share insight on common questions related to the realities of the U.S. immigration system. Held on Zoom. Pre-registration required. Free. ncmclifelonglearning.com/ event-4186319/Registration

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---------------------SCORE WORKSHOP: MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR WEBSITE IN 2021: 11:30am. Free webinar on Zoom. Featuring Marcie Wolf of Abuzz Creative who has 25 years of experience as a web designer. Register. events.r20. constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk =a07ehirtt6ad1284323&oseq=&c=&ch=

---------------------DARK MONEY IN MICHIGAN’S MOST EXPENSIVE ELECTION: Noon. A virtual event presented by the League of Women Voters GTA. Featuring Simon D. Schuster, executive director of the Michigan Finance Network. Can be viewed on the Traverse Area Community Media Facebook page on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us//j87319479489489 or on Community TV channel 189 (with Spectrum cable).

LIVE EVENT! Hilariously wacky scientist Doktor Kaboom blends science and comedy in demonstrations of the physical sciences tied to curriculum standards. For all ages. Choose from 2pm on Sat., March 20 or Sun., March 21 at Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. 11am on Sat., March 20 is sold out. $5 all seats. greatlakescfa.org/event-detail/next-gen-doktor-kaboom/ MAPLE SUGARING BASICS: 12:30pm. Join James Dake online to discover the ceremonial art of tapping maple trees by learning both traditional & modern methods. This presentation will cover the equipment basics you need to do it at home & the process from tree to bottle.

Free. grassriver.org

mar 17

wednesday

LET’S TALK: ONLINE FRAUD & TELEPHONE SCAMS!: 4pm. Learn about the latest schemes & how to protect yourself. Grand Traverse County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Charles Hamlyn will discuss: The Most Common Financial Scams & Schemes; Who is Typically Targeted & Why; Easy Ways to Protect Yourself & Your Family; What to Do If You are a Victim of Financial Fraud; & The Legal Process. You must pre-register. Free. eventbrite. com/e/lets-talk-scams-fraud-w-charles-hamlyntickets-140832522867?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

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mar 18

thursday

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FORUM: GLOBAL TO LOCAL, CLIMATE CHANGE, WATER & FOOD: 5pm. J. Carl Ganter, co-founder & director at Circle of Blue, presents an evening of photojournalism & revelations on climate change & its effects on the fresh water we cherish. For more info & to register for this virtual event go to TCIAF.com. $10 suggested donation; free to students & educators. tciaf.com

---------------------HARRIET QUIMBY - FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN PILOT & A MICHIGANDER!: 6:30pm. Join the Historical Society of Michigan via Zoom as they talk about Harriet Quimby, the first woman pilot who happens to be from Michigan. Less than eight years after the Wright Brothers’ first flight, Harriet Quimby became the first American woman & second in the world to receive a pilot’s license. On April 16, 1912, she became the first woman to fly across the English Channel, a significant feat in the early history of aviation. Free. tadl.org/ event/harriet-quimby-first-american-womanpilot-and-a-michigander-via-zoom

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PETOSKEY VIRTUAL BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:30-7pm. Held via Remo. Sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Dodson Payment Solutions, Harbor/Brenn Insurance Agencies. Free. petoskeychamber.com/events/details/business-after-hoursmarch-2021-23826

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---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS STATE OF THE COMMUNITY: Organized by the Harbor Springs Area Chamber of Commerce & presented by sponsor Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

Learn what’s new for 2021 & what’s planned for the future from various speakers. Join the event by Zoom at 7:50 or 8am on March 18. harborspringschamber.com/events/details/ state-of-the-community-2021-8045

---------------------SCORE WORKSHOP: 11:30am. Held online.

Featuring Curtis Kuttnauer, senior partner at Golden Circle Advisors & a SCORE mentor.

This workshop will introduce to business owners the process necessary for the potential sale of their business, whether it is time to retire or move on to something different. Learn what the selling process entails, including the six “exits.”

Register. Free. traversecity.score.org/event/ choosing-right-path-you-and-your-business

mar 19

friday

NWS PRESENTS: AN EVENING WITH IMBOLO MBUE: 7pm. The National Writers Series presents a virtual event in conversation with author Imbolo Mbue. Includes a discussion of her new book, “How Beautiful We Were,” an exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold on to its ancestral land. The guest host for this event is Rochelle Riley. Free (donations accepted). nationalwritersseries.org/ upcoming-events

---------------------FINAL LUNCH LECTURE: Noon. “Beethoven and the Ode to Joy.” Presented by NCMC. Amanda Sewell, Ph.D., music director for Interlochen Public Radio, will survey Beethoven’s life & music, focusing on some less well-known facets, including his long affair with a married woman known as “Immortal Beloved.” Virtual event. Pre-registration required. Free. ncmclifelonglearning.com/events

---------------------GLEN LAKE BOOK CLUB: 10am, Glen Arbor Town Hall. Featuring “The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.”

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mar 20

saturday

NEXT GEN: DOKTOR KABOOM!: 11am & 2pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Enjoy a live experience as this hilariously wacky scientist blends science & comedy in his series of demonstrations of the physical sciences directly tied to curriculum standards. For all ages. $5. greatlakescfa.org/event-detail/ next-gen-doktor-kaboom

---------------------CELTS & KILTS: 12-4pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Slopeside DJ will be playing hits at the Crystal Center patio, leprechauns will be skiing on the slopes, there will be an onslope scavenger hunt, Pot of Gold Challenge, costume contest & more. crystalmountain.com/ event/celts-kayaks

---------------------GOPHERWOOD CONCERTS PRESENTS C.A.R.MA QUARTET: 7pm. Featuring Sumkali member John Churchville, Brennan Andes, Dan Ripke & Peter “Madcat” Ruth. Eclectic traditional & improvisational music for the mind & spine. Held online. Free; donations recommended. gopherwoodconcerts.org

---------------------MAPLE DAY: 11am-3pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Stop by the Pavilion at the Grass River Center to see sap boiling to syrup. Ask staff questions & hike on the trail to see where the sap is collected. grassriver.org

---------------------SPRING EQUINOX BIRD WALK: 9-11am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Must preregister. $5/person. grassriver.org

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---------------------NORTE’S VIRTUAL ROLL: 9am. Join on the virtual cycling platform Zwift for a morning ride through the island of Watopia. The group roll will raise money for Norte’s scholarship program. Registration is $35 per rider. Prizes & fun. elgruponorte.org

---------------------MODEL RAILROAD ZOOM MEETING: 10am-1pm. National Model Railroad Association North Central Region Division 2 Monthly Zoom Meeting. Will include a presentation on model railroading & a show & tell. For login & password contact: superintendent.nmra.ncr. div2@gmail.com Free.

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mar 21

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sunday

NEXT GEN: DOKTOR KABOOM!: (See Sat., March 20)

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FRIENDS OF INTERLOCHEN PUBLIC LIBRARY

ONE-DAY PIZZA FUNDRAISER EVENT: Order pizza from Interlochen’s Cicero’s from 4-9pm & 25% of the sales will be given to IPL to support community programs. To order call: 231-276-6324; cicerospizzainterlochen.com.

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ongoing

GT MUSICALE SCHOLARSHIP: Young musicians in grades 7-12 interested in auditioning for a music scholarship with Grand Traverse Musicale have until March 19 to begin the process. gtmusicale.org

---------------------GRAND TRAVERSE CONSERVATION DISTRICT’S ANNUAL NATIVE SEEDLING SALE: Held online through March 31. Featuring 32 bareroot tree & shrub species available for purchase. natureiscalling.org/native-seedling-sale

---------------------NEW WINTER TRAIL: Brys Estate Vineyard & Winery, TC. Snowshoe, cross-country ski, or hike Brys Estate’s 111 acres. Choose from two winter trail options. Open daily from 11am-5pm. Keep warm with an insulated mug of Spiked Hot Apple Cider or a glass of wine while you enjoy the trail, or enjoy it post exercise at one of the fire pits in the snowy open space. Winter trails are not groomed & equipment is not provided. brysestate.com/ Visit-Us/wintertrail

---------------------SENIOR CENTER NETWORK HELPS!: People in the 60-plus age group have become increasingly isolated during the COVID-19 “stay-athome” order & are challenged by an even greater reliance on technology. The Senior Center, TC offers puzzles, exercise equipment, & books available to be checked out. Call 922-4911 to make arrangements to pick up. The “Little Free Library” located outside the main entrance is open at all times. There are also “boredom buster” packets with puzzles, fun facts & jokes available. Make an appointment to pick up or have them mailed to you. Their Telephone Assurance Program provides staff & volunteers available to chat. grandtraverse.org/712/Senior-Centers

---------------------VIRTUAL 2021 BAYSHORE MARATHON REGISTRATION: Featuring a marathon, half marathon & 10K. Register. Event held on May 29. bayshoremarathon.org

---------------------ICEMAN COMETH VIRTUAL TRAINING CHALLENGE: Ride 500, 1,000, or 3,000 miles to prepare for the 2021 Bell’s Iceman Cometh Challenge presented by Trek. Each distance will have its own exclusive Strava Club for tips & support, with all entrants eligible for prizes each month. Runs March 5 - Oct. 30. Registration ends Sept. 30. $25. registericeman.com/ Race/Events/MI/TraverseCity/IcemanCometh Challenge#eventGroup-7424

MARCH 2021 CYBER LEARN-A-THON: Newton’s Road is partnering with 20Fathoms to offer a free Cyber Learn-a-thon to Northwest Michigan high school students & their parents from Feb. 26 - March 26. The course teaches how to protect personal data & privacy online & in social media & explores cyber trends, threats & staying safe in cyberspace. In addition to the self-paced course, which takes approximately 15 hours to complete, student participants can attend a panel of local educators & professionals teaching & using cybersecurity skills. netacad.com/portal/ web/self-enroll/m/course-298485

---------------------DISABILITY NETWORK MEN’S GROUP: ZOOM MEETINGS: Mondays, 10am through March. disabilitynetwork.org/events

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DISABILITY NETWORK PEER ADVOCACY GROUP: ZOOM MEETINGS: Thursdays, 2pm through March. disabilitynetwork.org/events

---------------------DISABILITY NETWORK WOMEN’S GROUP, SHARING HERSTORY: ZOOM MEETINGS: Mondays, 11am through March. disabilitynetwork.org/events

---------------------FREE YOGA IN MARCH: Yoga-45, Gaylord.

Free yoga classes for restaurant & essential workers on Mondays in March, 8am. Register via Mindbody app or text: 989-350-4660. yoga-45.com

---------------------MISS ANN’S ZOOM STORY HOUR: Interlochen Public Library’s preschool story hour held on Wednesdays at 11am through March via Zoom.

Weekly themes, craft supplies are provided for pick up. Meeting ID: 876 3279 3456. Pass code: storyhour. interlochenpubliclibrary.org

---------------------THE ENCHANTED TRAIL: Open Saturdays, Sundays & holidays from 5:30-8:30pm through winter at Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs.

The trail totals two miles roundtrip & features the twinkling of hundreds of lights strewn throughout the path. Guests can walk or snowshoe the trail with snowshoes available for rent. Tickets are $15 per person. Hot chocolate & s’mores are included.

A cash bar is available & beverage tickets can be purchased in advance. Reserve your spot. boynehighlands.com

---------------------BELLAIRE WINTER FARMERS MARKET: Held on Fridays from 10am-2pm. Located at both Bee Well & Terrain in downtown Bellaire.

---------------------BOYNE CITY INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon through May 15.

City Hall Lobby, Boyne City. petoskeyarea. com/event-detail/boyne-city-indoor-farmersmarket-1

---------------------INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: The Village at GT Commons, The Mercato, TC. Saturdays through April, 10am-2pm. thevillagetc.com/ indoor-farmers-market-7-2-2-2-2-2

the ADViCE GOddESS Spite Girl

Q

: In my romantic relationships, conflicts bring out a side of me that I don’t like. I fly into a rage and end up making ugly comments I later regret. In the moment, it’s like I can’t stop. I’m shocked by the level of anger I have, and I’m afraid to enter relationships as a result.

— Exploding Woman

A

: There are obvious shortcuts in anger management, such as: “Never go to bed angry. Smother the unreasonable idiot next to you so you can get some sleep.”

Anger gets knocked as a toxic emotion, but when somebody’s disrespecting or fleecing us, our blowing up suggests this won’t end well for them — in a way our being all “Hey, no prob, bro” does not. Research by evolutionary psychologist Aaron Sell suggests anger evolved as a “bargaining” tool to help the angry person resolve conflicts of interest in their favor.

Sell observes that anger is one of a few emotions (like sadness) that “regulates” others’ behavior as well as our own. Anger rises in us when we perceive someone is treating us unfairly — not putting enough value on our well-being — and motivates us to get them to mend their ways. It motivates the person we’re angry at through two means: the prospect that we’ll “withdraw benefits” (like by shutting off the sex spigot) like sex or the perks of friendship) or “inflict costs” (like by throwing public tantrums or hacking off the left arm of all their shirts).

So, anger is a potential solution, a negotiating platform. The problem comes when you express it in counterproductive ways, leaving you embarrassed, ashamed, out of a job, or in the slammer. Going explosively ugly at a romantic partner is like using a shoulderfired missile launcher to get martini olives out of a jar. Sure, it works to remove the olives — and you might eventually find a few specks of them on the cable guy’s truck two streets back.

To be human is to be occasionally explody, but habitual exploders tend to be driven by some or all of this trio: conflict avoidance, irrational beliefs, and/or unannounced needs.

Conflict avoidance: People avoid difficult conversations to avoid the unpleasantness that comes with. Unfortunately, avoiding conflict doesn’t make it go away, and the unpleasantness only grows; it’s just all on their end, continually eating them up inside

BY Amy Alkon and making them angrier. In contrast, when you confront somebody, the discomfort is momentary. It also solves a problem -- either by prompting them to come around or finding out that they probably never will.

Irrational beliefs: Pop the hood of rage and you’ll typically find the irrational belief that psychologist Albert Ellis sometimes sums up as “People MUST always treat me well!” (or MUST this or that). In fact, Ellis explains, it’s rational to prefer to be treated well, but nobody “must” do anything. There’s only how they do behave and how you’ll decide to behave in response.

“Catastrophizing” is Ellis’ term for a companion irrational belief: “It will be HORRIBLE if they treat me badly!”

“Horrible” is getting flattened to death by the secretly motorized walls of your bathroom closing in on you or getting chased and eaten by giant cockroaches. But somebody being kind of a jerk to you will merely be disappointing, annoying, frustrating, and/ or depressing. You’ve survived all of these feelings before, and you’re sure to do it again.

And again.

Unannounced needs: People blow up over their needs that keep going unmet -- which really isn’t reasonable or fair when these needs remain unannounced. No, you can’t just hint or decide that a man “should just know” what you want. Yes, you have to tell him. He can’t read your thoughts on his Kindle.

Present your needs as a feelings-driven “ask” rather than an attack, which sets him up to listen instead of fight back. For example: “I feel X way when things go like this. Here’s what I’d prefer.” If he cares about you, hearing that you feel bad should evoke empathy and make him want to make you feel better — possibly by doing what you’re asking. At the very least, he might tell you he can’t and explain why.

To change your habitual ragey response to conflict, pre-plan and even practice a more rational reaction. Should a discussion start getting heated, suggest taking a break and maybe take a walk solo to calm down. Lapses are probably inevitable, so try to avoid them, but expect them and forgive yourself. Telling your partner about your efforts might help him forgive lapses, too, as well as giving him hope for your future together. Ideally, his pet name for you should be something boringly endearing like “honey,” “darling,” or “babe,” as opposed to the nickname of my (now-reformed hothead) friend Hiroko — Japanese for “magnanimous” — whose former boyfriend couldn’t help but call her “Hiroshima.”

“Jonesin” Crosswords Hi, Turnover" --when you can look at it both ways. by Matt Jones

ACROSS 1 Havana’s home 5 Herb with leaves used in Japanese cooking 10 Classic Ford models 14 Like some arguments 15 Complete 16 On vacation 17 Meyer of the “Saw” movies 18 How to view the alternate answers crossing the circled squares 20 Expert’s offer 22 Artist’s stand 23 Army creature?

24 Dinner table basketful 26 Troubled outburst from Scooby-Doo 28 Charlie of the 1960s Orioles 30 Indigenous New Zealanders 33 Denounces 34 Performance style at UCB and Second City 36 ‘50s Ford failure 38 Baked Italian dish 39 “___ Up” (Violent Femmes song) 41 “Here’s ___ from me to you ...”

45 *”Rudolph the Red-___ Reindeer” (or the other way, Japanese audio company) 47 *”Barber Shop Chronicles” playwright Inua ___ (or the other way, letter used to abbreviate “forte”) 49 Encouraging words 52 *Athlete running 5,280 feet (or the other way, second run of crew practice) 54 “Call Me ___” (Mayim Bialik sitcom) 55 Inter, as a pharaoh 57 Marry in haste 59 “Nightswimming” band 60 “Blue Ribbon” beer maker 63 Cool, once 66 It helps clean the word in the circled squares (as well as the alternate version) 69 100 centesimi, pre-euro 70 Like jungle foliage 71 Cheap instrument 72 Done 73 Suffix for kitchen 74 FBI operative 75 Freshman, usually

DOWN 1 Classical conclusion 2 “Armageddon” author Leon 3 Wheel of Fortune wedge to be avoided 4 Texas shrine to “remember” 5 “Rugrats” father 6 “Fingers crossed” 7 “___ Sin” (HBO Max miniseries) 8 “Je ne ___ quoi” 9 Farther along 10 Edinburgh boy 11 Like some biceps exercises, e.g.

12 Suddenly occur to 13 Electronic keyboards, casually 19 Outwit, in a way 21 Red Muppet 25 *Aa and pahoehoe, for two (or the other way, like military fleets) 27 Designation at an Arabic meat market 28 “30 Rock” character Lemon 29 “Where ___?”

31 *___-wip topping (or the other way, more unusual) 32 “The Last King of Scotland” name 35 “Octopus’s Garden” singer 37 *___-toed boots (or the other way, half of those pairs of boots) 40 *DNC member (or the other way, married) 42 Dave Brubeck standard 43 “___ complete mess” 44 Eugene clock setting, for short 46 Vitality 48 “Battlefield Earth” author ___ Hubbard 49 Dr. Seuss title turtle 50 Early inning statistic 51 Fullest extent 53 *Reveals one’s true feelings (or the other way, pater ___) 56 Russian rum cake 58 Cockpit figure 61 Be immodest 62 Financial advisor Orman 64 Maple, for instance 65 Intricate story 67 Chance ___ Rapper 68 Super-spicy

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lOGY

MAR 15 - MAR 21

BY ROB BREZSNY

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): No one had ever proven

that there was such a thing as electromagnetic waves until Piscean physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894) did so in 1886. He was the innovator who first transmitted and received controlled radio waves. Alas, he didn’t think his breakthrough was useful.

In 1890, he confessed, “I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application.” But other scientists were soon capitalizing on his work to communicate long distances. Radio broadcasts were born. I will encourage you not to make a Hertzian-type mistake in the coming months. Always follow through on your initial labors.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In her poem

“Sandra,” Scorpio poet Ariana Reines testifies that she has too many feelings—and that’s not a problem. On the contrary. They are her wealth, she says, her “invisible splendor.” I invite you to regard your own “too many feelings” in the same way, especially in the coming weeks. You will have opportunities to harness your flood of feelings in behalf of transformative insights and holistic decision-making. Your motto: Feelings are healing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Historian and author Thomas Berry described “wildness” as the source of our “authentic spontaneities.” He said it’s “the wellspring of creativity” at the root of our lust for life. That’s a different definition from the idea that wildness is about being unruly, rough, and primitive. And Berry’s definition happens to be the one that should be central to your work and play in the coming weeks. Your assignment is to be wild: that is, to cultivate your authentic spontaneities; to home in on and nourish the creative wellspring of your lust for life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some of the great discoveries in the history of physics have been made while the trailblazing physicists are lolling in bed or in the bathtub. They have done the research and carried out the rigorous thinking, and are rewarded with breakthroughs while relaxing. I think that will be your best formula for success in the coming weeks. Important discoveries are looming. Interesting innovations are about to hatch. You’re most likely to gather them in if you work intensely on preparing the way for them, then go off and do something fun and rejuvenating.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My typical

horoscope is an average of 108 words long.

In that limited space, I can’t possibly tell you all the themes and threads that will be active for you during the upcoming phase of your cycle. I have to make choices about what to include and what not to include. This time I’ll focus on the fact that you now have an opportunity to deepen your relationship with your sense of smell—and to purposefully nourish your sense of smell. Your homework: Decide on at least five scents with which you will cultivate an intimate, playful, delightful connection in the coming days. (PS: You may be surprised at how this practice will deepen your emotional connection with the world.)

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Poet Ocean Vuong

speaks of the Hawaiian word kipuka. It refers to a patch of earth that doesn’t get covered with lava when an active volcano exudes its molten material. “Before the lava descended,” Vuong writes, “that piece of land was insignificant, just another scrap in an endless mass of green.” But now that piece of land is special, having endured. I encourage you to identify your metaphorical equivalent of kipuka, Aries. It’s an excellent time to celebrate the power and luck and resilience that have enabled you to persevere.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Extraordinary

things are always hiding in places people never think to look,” writes Taurus author Jodi Picoult.

Luckily for you, Taurus, in the near future you’ll be prone to look in exactly those places—where no one else has thought to look. That means you’ll be extra likely to find useful, interesting, even extraordinary things that have mostly been hidden and unused. You may also discover

some boring and worthless things, but the trade-off will be worth your effort. Congratulations in advance on summoning such brave curiosity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “When we

ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice,” said Gemini author Saul Bellow.

So if you have come here today to read my horoscopes, it’s possible that you’re seeking an accomplice to approve of you making a decision or a move that you have already decided to do. OK. I’ll be your accomplice. But as your accomplice, the first thing I’ll do is try to influence you to make sure your upcoming actions serve not only your own selfish interests (although there’s nothing wrong with that), but also serve the interests of people you care for.

The weeks ahead will be a favorable time to blend self-interest and noble idealism.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A character in

Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Lacuna is told to “go rub his soul against life.” Now I’ll advise you to do the same. Why? While it’s true that you have a beautiful soul, you sometimes get in the habit of hiding it away or keeping it secret. You feed it a wealth of dreams and emotions and longings, but may not go far enough in providing it with raw experience out in the messy, chaotic world. In my judgment, now is one of those times when you would benefit from rubbing your soul against life. Please note: I DON’T mean you should go in search of rough, tough downers. Not at all. In fact, there are plenty of pleasurable, safe, educational ways to rub your soul against life.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you love the work

of self-help author Paulo Coelho, you might be inclined to adopt his motto as your own: “Being vulnerable is the best way to allow my heart to feel true pleasure.” But maybe you wouldn’t want to adopt his motto. After all, what he’s suggesting requires a great deal of courage and daring. Who among us finds it easy and natural to be soft and receptive and inviting? And yet according to my analysis of the astrological omens, this is exactly what your assignment should be for the next two weeks. To help motivate yourself, remember the payoff described by Coelho: the possibility that your heart will feel true pleasure.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo author

Michael Ondaatje celebrates “the hidden presence of others in us—even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.” As you approach your own upcoming border-crossing, dear Virgo, I encourage you to tune into memories about seven specific people who over the course of your life have provided you with the most joy and the most interesting lessons. Close your eyes for 20 minutes and imagine they are all gathered together with you in your favorite sanctuary. Remember in detail the blessings they bestowed on you. Give thanks for their influences, for the gifts they gave that have helped you become your beautiful self.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “A balance that does

not tremble cannot weigh. A person who does not oscillate cannot live.” So wrote biochemist Erwin Chargaff, who did crucial research leading to the discovery of DNA’s double helix structure. Since you’re the zodiac’s expert on balance and oscillation, and because these themes will be especially meaningful for you in the coming days, I’ll ask you to meditate on them with extra focus. Here’s my advice: To be healthy and resilient, you need to be aware of other possibilities besides those that seem obvious and simple and absolutely true. You need to consider the likelihood that the most correct answers are almost certainly those that are paradoxical and complicated and full of nuance.

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