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New Home for the Glen Lake Library
The Glen Lake Community Library moved into its new home earlier this month following a successful fundraising campaign and construction that began in 2019. “People have been really happy with what they’re finding in the building. Traffic has definitely increased,” said library director David Diller. “Each day it feels more like home.” The library in Empire was established in 1977 and spent its first years in an old rented building on Front Street before moving into a modified fire hall in 1982 that was added onto repeatedly, doubling in size twice by 1996. After an operating millage was passed in 2016 in each of the three townships served by the library, its board hired consultants to determine what the library needed and two years later a capital campaign was launched and soon raised $1.75 million to build a state-of-theart, modern library.
HUNT FOR THE REDS OF OCTOBER
Stuff we love
The Little Fleet’s Weekly Party Packs We love CSAs for vegetables — but a CSA for cocktails and beer? Sign us up! The Little Fleet in Traverse City is offering their new Weekly Party Packs every Thursday from October 8-December 17 (no Thanksgiving), and each one is full of goodness and surprises. They tell us “one week you may get well crafted cocktails mixed with local produce...you may get some of our favorite hard-to-find beer. And some weeks you might get it all—beer, wine, and cocktails. Included will be a few small happy hour snacks, along with other fun surprises.” When the nights get long and the snow flies, that weekly surprise pack just might lift our spirits with some spirits. $400 for ten weeks. More at www.thelittlefleet.com
Explore and discover great red wines of Leelanau Peninsula. Takes place weekdays during Oct. Tickets are $25 per person; includes a souvenir wine glass, a complimentary red wine pour at each of more than 20 participating wineries offering diverse red wines, and a $5 donation to the American Red Cross. lpwines.com
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JOIN THE LIVESTREAM ON OCTOBER 10 WITH SPECIAL MUSICAL GUEST JOSHUA DAVIS! Harvest is FREE to attend!
Cook with us! Farm box, recipes and shopping list at groundwork.org/harvest.
REGISTER AT: groundworkcenter.org/Harvest
Bid on local products and experiences in the Silent Auction. Opens Oct. 2.
bottoms up Sparta and Hail Now that Big Ten football is back, we’re also celebrating the launch of two new brews from North Peak: Sparta and Hail. Sparta is an American IPA apparently made to be drunk while watching MSU; it has a “crisp maltiness and hop profile of Simcoe, Citra, and Cascade hops with notes of tangerine and grapefruit.” Hail is a Michigan IPA, is well-balanced and hop-forward, and is actually brewed with maize (yellow flaked corn) and blue (corn grits). Both beers are available in individual cans and six-packs at retailers, and on draft at select bars. Might be good to have a few of each on hand when the Spartans take on the Wolverines in Ann Arbor on Halloween day.
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