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MACKINAC ISLAND

Ferry franchises still dangling

Fuel costs soar

WHAT CAN YA DO?

But Mackinac Island hikes cost of doing business Rachel Brougham (231)439-9348 - rbrougham@petoskeynews.com

MACKINAC ISLAND —The ferry boats that serve Mackinac Island remain docked as they still await franchises for the 2011 season.

At a Mackinac Island City Council meeting Wednesday night, the council approved changes to the ferry boat ordinance, but did not offer the three ferry lines their franchises for the season.

The new ferry ordinance is set to go into effect on Tuesday, April 5.

Arnold Transit Company, Shepler’s Mackinac Island Ferry and Star Line Mackinac Island Ferry must now turn in their franchise applications and will need to adhere to the new terms and conditions in order to receive a franchise.

New for 2011, there will be a single operating season from March 15 through Jan. 15, as ice conditions permit. Previously, both

Shepler’s Mackinac Island Ferry and Star Line Mackinac Island Ferry only had franchises that allowed them to run until Oct. 31.

Arnold Transit Company ran an extended season.

The franchise fees paid to the city increased from 2 and 2.5 percent to 7 percent of gross ticket sales.

In recent years, both Shepler’s and Star Line paid a 2.5 percent franchise fee while Arnold Tran-

Dealers: More car shoppers looking at better mileage

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At two of Northwest Michigan’s new-car dealerships, staff have seen fuel economy become a bigger priority for more and more buyers with the recent er climb in gas pricc es.

Art Schupbach, sales manager at Dave Kring Chevrolet-Cadillac in Petoskey, is one who has noticed the trend.

When prices eased after the last major fuel price spike in 2008, Schupbach said shoppers at the dealership began weighing other priorities — See FUEL on PAGE A14

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Michigan-Shiga Sister State Program accepting donations for Japan disaster relief

The Michigan-Shiga Sister State Program is currently collecting donations for disaster relief efforts in Japan.

“The donations will be going through our state board office in Lansing,” said Meredith Richter, Petoskey representative for the sister state board.

The board is a 501(c)(3) nonprof-

it organization, which means donations made to the organization are tax deductible.

“The refugees have a severe shortage of supply of gasoline, food, clothes,” said Takayuki Mochizuki, liaison from the Shiga Prefecture to the Michigan-Shiga state board, in an e-mail interview. “After I saw the huge dev-

astation by the earthquake and tsunami, I was so worried about how it is possible to recover from such huge damages.”

Shiga is between 375-500 miles west of the earthquake site, and a “weak shake” was monitored in Shiga, said Mochizuki.

“The radiation issue is what people pay the most attention to

right now,” he said. “The reactors are in a severe situation, and there is a possibility that they will get worse. If that happens, the more people have to suffer.”

The Shiga Prefecture has been a sister state to Michigan for more than 40 years, the oldest sister state relationship between the United States and Japan, accord-

ing to the website for the Michigan-Shiga Sister State Program.

The organization will be accepting donations on behalf of Japan. Checks can be made payable to the Michigan-Shiga Sister State Board and can be sent to P.O. Box 4715, East Lansing, Mich.

48823-9990. Note that the check is for “Japan disaster relief.”

AROUND THE WORLD IN 60 SECONDS

Synder’s pension plan seen as attack on retirees

LANSING (AP) — Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is drawing recall threats and angry protests over his attempt to do what no Michigan governor has tried in more than 40 years: Tax the pension and 401(k) incomes of millions of retirees. The move has brought demonstrators to the Capitol and has thousands of seniors reminding the new governor that they could make re-election difficult.

SEE PAGE A13

NASA craft circles Mars WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-thesky spying on the solar system’s smallest and strangest planet, Mercury.

NASA’s spacecraft called Messenger successfully veered into a pinpoint orbit Thursday night after a 6 1/2-year trip and 4.9 billion miles and tricky maneuvering to fend off the gravitational pull of the sun.

SEE PAGE A6

Taking a spring break?

Officials : U.S. readies for Libyan no-fly zone

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional officials say the Obama administration is readying plans to participate in a no-fly zone in Libya with the help of Arab countries in anticipation of a United Nations Security Council resolution. These officials said Thursday they expected the effort to enforce a no-fly zone and ground Moammar Gadhafi’s air force soon.

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Nuclear agency reviewing all U.S. reactors

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will conduct a “comprehensive review” of the safety of all U.S. nuclear plants following what U.S. officials are calling the dangerous and complicated situation at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors.

President Barack Obama took the rare step and called upon the independent commission to conduct the review.

“When we see a crisis like the one in Japan, we have a responsibility to learn from this event and to draw from those lessons to ensure the safety and security of our people,” Obama said Thursday.

Obama’s statement came as he tried to reassure a worried nation that “harmful levels” of radiation from the Japanese nuclear disaster are not expected to reach the U.S., even as other officials conceded it could take weeks to bring the crippled nuclear complex under control.

Meanwhile, the first evacuation flight of U.S. citizens left Japan, the State Department said.

“We’ve seen an earthquake and tsunami render an unimaginable toll of death and destruction on

CORRECTIONS

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This space is reserved each day for corrections or clarifications of news stories. Should you see an error, please contact Jeremy McBain, editor, at the Petoskey News-Review, (231) 347-2544.

one of our closest friends and allies in the world,” Obama said in brief remarks at the White House after a visit to the Japanese Embassy to offer his condolences.

There are 104 nuclear reactors in the United States, providing roughly 20 percent of the nation’s electricity. “Nuclear energy is an important part of our own energ y future,” Obama said.

A leading industry group agreed with the review.

“A review of our nuclear plants is an appropriate step after an event of this scale, and we expect that the Nuclear Regulatory

Commission will conduct its own assessment,” said Marvin Fertel, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute. “The industry’s highest priority is the safe operation of 104 reactors in 31 states and we will incorporate lessons learned from this accident...”

In the U.S., Customs and Border Protection said there had been reports of radiation being detected from some cargo arriving from Japan at several airports, including ones in Chicago, Dallas and Seattle.

Radiation had not been detected in passengers or luggage. And none of the reported incidents involved

harmful amounts.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the agency was screening passengers and cargo for “even a blip of radiation.”

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Senator Walker to have Petoskey office hours

Sen. Howard Wa l k e r, R - T r a ve r s e C i t y, w i l l conduct Petoskey office hours at the Petoskey Car ne gie buildi n g f r o m 1 : 3 0 - Walker 2:30 p.m., Monday, March 21.

The office hours are a chance for constituents to voice their opinions and discuss concerns with the senator or a member of his staff. All are welcome.

For more information, contact Walker’s office toll free at (866) 525-5637. The Carnegie building is located at 451 Mitchell St. in downtown Petoskey.

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Emmet County approves $100,000 for trail project ■ Petoskey-to-Alanson trail

improvement to cost 1.5 million Brandon Hubbard (231)439-9374 - bhubbard@petoskeynews.com

ALANSON — The Emmet County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution of support and $100,000 to help Top of Michigan Trails Council develop an asphalt trail between Petoskey and Alanson.

At a total cost of $1.55 million, the trail starts at M-119 near Spring Lake and stops at the Alanson village limits, ef fectively traversing Bear Creek, Little Traverse and Littlefield townships.

Emmet County will be responsible for spending $100,000 from its restricted trail fund, which has a balance of $190,000, to pay for engineering costs. The amount represents a 6 percent investment in the total estimated cost of $1,549,130.

Emmet County has submitted a grant to the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund for $300,000 toward the project, while another grant $150,000 is being submitted by the DNR Forest Management Division.

A grant submitted to MDOT Transportation Enhancement would provide another $942,000 for the project.

An additional $57,130 will still need to be raised.

The seven-mile span is the first in a much larger project to improve the 35-mile Petoskey to Mackinaw City Trail into a usable route for recreational uses, as well as for snowmobiles.

“We are looking at developing this trail in three segments, and this would be the first segment,” said Emily Meyerson, Top of Michigan Trails Council’s northern Lower Peninsula trailways coordinator.

The asphalt used in the project will be a special blend, made specifically durable to

the wear of snowmobile tracks.

Of the total length, 5.5 miles of the distance is Rails to Trails property along the old railroad bed, and another 1.5 miles follows MDOT right of way.

Meyerson said it could be more than two years for the grants and other work to come together.

Officials are planning to use crushed limestone to complete the trail north of Alanson.

M a c k i n aw C i t y a l r e a d y serves as a hub for two other trails stretching to Cheboygan and Gaylord.

B y t h e To p o f M i c h i g a n Trails Council’s account, there are more than 220 miles of trails created or being created in the northern Lower Peninsula. A 71-mile crushed limestone trail from Alpena to Cheboygan is expected to begin in April.

The Emmet County board p a s s e d t h e re s o l u t i o n a n d spending approval unanimously.

Maps and information about trails in the area can be found at the Top of Michigan Trails C o u n c i l w e b s i t e a t w w w. trailscouncil.org.

Funding the improvements Grant submitted to MDOT Transportation Enhancement for $942,000 Grant being submitted by Emmet County to the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund $300,000 DNR Forest Management Division will submit a grant to Recreation Improvement Fund $150,000 Emmet County $100,000 (from restricted funds for trail use only), which is 6 percent of the total project cost Top of Michigan Trails Council is working to raise $57,130 to finish the funding package

— Top of Michigan Trails Council

Petoskey to Mackinaw City Rail-Trail Seven miles of asphalt trail from M-119 to Powers Road at the Alanson Village limits connecting Petoskey, Conway, Oden, Ponshewaing and Alanson Harbor Springs West Conway Road

North Conway Road

Northern Michigan residents should be aware of a new phone scam that could leave them with high phone bills.

Scammers are placing calls and pretending to be with the local police department, the sheriff ’s office or other public safety agency or hospital. They make up a story about a child or other loved one being hurt in an accident and ask the resident to call the officer “at the scene” by dialing *72 and a phone number they provide. Charlevoix County sheriff, Don Schneider, warns area residents to not do this.

“Charlevoix County Sheriff ’s deputies will never instruct anyone to dial a phone number beginning with *72 to receive ‘on scene’ accident information about their loved ones,” Schneider said.

When you dial *72 at the beginning of a call you can activate call forwarding, if you subscribe to it. All calls to your phone number will then be forwarded to the phone number the scammers gave you. When this happens, you may be billed a charge each time a call is forwarded to the other number. You may also be billed long distance charges, pay-percall charges and collect call charges, if applicable All calls will continue to be forwarded until this feature is turned off.

In most cases *73 stops call forwarding, but it can vary from carrier to carrier.

You may have call forwarding as a feature of your landline or wireless service. If you are unsure if you have it, ask your phone company. Not all call forwarding is activated by *72. If you have call forwarding, Schneider suggests you find out how to use it, as well as all your other services so you can avoid becoming a victim of this type of scam.

If you are hit with this scam, call your phone company to dispute the charges. They may advise you to file a police report and/or contact the Attorney General’s complaint line. For more safety tips, Schneider encourages residents to visit the Michigan Sheriff ’s Association website at www.misheriff.org where you can sign up to receive monthly newsletters.

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Of the seven total miles of the Petoskey to Alanson segment of the Petoskey to Mackinaw City Rail-Trail, 5.5 will be on DNRE rail trail and 1.5 will be in MDOT right of way. 2.1 miles will be in Bear Creek Township 1.2 miles in Little Traverse Township and 3.7 in Littlefield Township.

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Two Petoskey school employees win OPIE awards for excellence Morgan Sherburne (231)439-9394 - msherburne@petoskeynews.com

Two Petoskey school employees, Mike Frampus and Cindy Leist, have been selected by their peers to win the Outstanding Person in Education award for 2011.

The award goes to educators and aides who show commitment, leadership and professional ability in their positions. The winners are selected anonymously by their peers in their staf f g roup.

Leist was chosen by her fellow secretarial and custodial coworkers, and Frampus was chosen by the district’s support staff.

“Cindy is outstanding in budgetary matters,” said Petoskey Middle School principal Dave Gracy. “She is accurate, on time, and takes a great deal of pride in her work. She is good on the phone with parents and also runs a very solid office. She’s everything you would expect a good employee to be.”

As the middle school secretary, Leist is in charge of state re por ts such as immunization records for students, new enrollment numbers for the school and the school’s fourth Friday counts, which determines the amount of money the school gets from the state of Michigan, said Gracy.

“It’s an honor,” said Cindy Leist, a Petoskey resident who has worked in the Petoskey school district for a total of 18 years.

Mike Frampus is a 15-year veteran of the Petoskey school

district, and works as the media center director for Petoskey Middle School.

B e c a u s e o f b u d g e t c u t s, Frampus has been sharing his time with Petoskey High School for the past four years, as well.

“Mike Frampus is what I call a jack-of-all-trades,” said Petoskey High School principal Jim Kanine. “He’s an amazing human being and a tremendous teacher. Whatever he touches will turn to gold.”

As the media center director, Frampus is in charge of not only managing libraries throughout the district, but of lear ning new technology as it becomes implemented in COURTESY PHOTO school systems. This includes Petoskey Middle School media center director Mike Frampus received learning how to fix hardware such as replacing a bulb on a the 2011 Outstanding Person in Education award for the Petoskey new projector to learning how school district. to both use and troubleshoot all the different kinds of software each teacher uses.

The award came as surprise to Frampus.

“I was very shocked and surprised. I didn’t really expect anything like that,” he said.

“I just feel pretty honored and blessed.”

But the honor was not a surprise to Gracy.

“I once wrote in an evaluation that (Frampus is) the standard by which I judg e other people,” said Gracy. “For Cindy and Mike to be chosen, they’re top notch.”

A banquet will be held for the Petoskey district award recipients, as well as recipients MORGAN SHERBURNE/NEWS-REVIEW from other districts, on ThursPetoskey Middle School secretary Cindy Leist received the 2011 Outday, May 12, at Boyne Mountain in Boyne Falls. standing Person in Education award for the Petoskey school district.

OPINION

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Our View

Boyne does right with new dock

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oyne City is again showing off its collective decisionmaking common sense, this time when it comes to keeping up with the waves and weather as it affects a city dock.

The city council and staff believe the city shoppers’ dock is an important piece of the city’s tourism season economic infrastructure. In fact, Boyne mayor, Chuck Vondra, said going without would be a “catastrophe.”

Keeping up with repairs on the current dock segment has been a little pricey. The dock on Lake Charlevoix just north of where the Boyne River feeds into the lake has been in place for about 20 years. Over last two years the city paid nearly $14,000 in dock repairs. The city has no reason to think that trend would end.

So staff came to the council recently with a proposition: Why not build a new piece? The new section of dock would be built to work with other parts of the dock and retrofitted for any future new dock construction when the time comes.

The city plans to expand on the dock in the future to allow for more shoppers to visit town via boat. Until plans for the expansion are finalized, the replacement of the old dock will provide a more stable position for boaters to leave their boat, city leaders say.

The idea is to save that annual repair bill. The new section of the dock is pegged at $16,430.

Starting with that new piece

The city plans to expand on the dock in the future to allow for more shoppers to visit town via boat.

Until plans for the expansion are finalized, the replacement of the old dock will provide a more stable position for boaters to leave their boat, city leaders say. means the city will forego annual repair costs and get a better dock in the bargain. The replacement section will be built to tougher standards, and the taxpayers will get a better deal.

Good thinking, Boyne. It’s a small piece of the budget pie but every little bit helps. Keep up the good work.

‘Our View’ represents the opinion of the News-Review Editorial Board: Ryan Bentley, Doug Caldwell, Brandon Hubbard, Jeremy McBain, Neil Stilwell, Babette Stenuis Stolz

Letters from our readers

A short run in the woods

Editor: When our Newfie, Hannes, came to live with us he was nine weeks old. Our house is in the woods, out in the country. At that time I could run faster than Hannes, so I would yell, “Follow me Hannes” and go running from our yard into the woods. I’d head down a trail and then duck behind some large tree to hide. I’d peek out and see Hannes’ furry black head making his way through the forest to find me.

Later, during water work, I’d put Hannes in a ‘sit-stay’ on the shoreline and swim out into the lake. Then I’d yell, “Help dog help!” and out Hannes would come, sometimes pulling a rope, sometimes a life ring, and sometimes just swimming by himself, to circle around me so I could grab his fur and be pulled to shore. Somewhere during the process Hannes decided that it was his job to protect me.

Last February 21st I went into the hospital for total knee joint replacement surgery on my right leg. The day before our daughter Lisa had come up to spend five days with us, bringing four dogs — two collies, a Corgi and a lab. I was really happy that Lisa was going to be there while I was gone because I knew she would regularly take her dogs for walks in the woods, and Hannes could go too. When I got out of the hospital, I found out that Hannes had not gone for any walks. Lisa would call him, but he just stayed in his own yard. I thought that once I was home Hannes would decide to go for a walk with Lisa and her dogs, but no, he continued to just stay by our house. I knew Hannes loved his walks in the woods, and it really made me sad that he wouldn’t go, so I resolved to get outside just as soon as possible so my boy could enjoy the woods again.

After a few days the weather was right, I felt strong enough and had a sturdy walking stick, so Hannes and I ventured out of the house. We walked a bit, but Hannes stayed right by my side. I’d tell him, “Hey guy, you can go for a run,” but he’d just look at me and stay nearby. Finally, after several days, he left me. He kept me in

sight, but did go off on his own.

From that point onward, when someone would ask me how my recovery was going, I’d tell them that the one who knew me best felt I was getting strong enough that I could be left by myself for a few moments, if he wanted to go for a short run in the woods.

Ken Kline Charlevoix

Fracking energy hostages Editor: Horizontal fracking is enormously more destructive than traditional gas extraction. Because there is no pool of gas or oil in shale, the whole Collingwood/ Utica shale formation is targeted for horizontal slick-water fracking.

That means thousands of wells will open pathways for methane from under hundreds of square miles of rural Michigan, creating millions of gallons of contaminated water, contaminated air and land, and miles of roads for trucks.

Fracking has contaminated wells, rivers, streams and lakes across the nation. The industrialization and devastation of Northern Michigan is fueled by environmental regulation exemptions, government subsidies and false promises.

It is mad. It degrades land values and destroys a”Pure Michigan” economy.

There is a better solution. Wind and solar and energy-efficiency could compete economically if the subsidies to nuclear, gas, oil and coal ended. But big-energy works to monopolize fuels and hold the world hostage to dirty, antique technologies.

Big-energy generates profits from all energy use. Our nation and Democracy is held hostage by industry demands. Ending subsidies to gas, oil, nuclear and coal is critical if we are to embark on a democratic, clean, safe, renewable energy path.

We must take our resources and develop small-scale community energy generation resources.

Detroit and all of Michigan could take the lead in production of wind and solar technologies. This is the real path to creating jobs in Michigan.

For more information go to Don’t Frack Michigan or Friends of the Jordan.

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don’t know how to be a mom without texting my teenagers constantly.

Here’s how it all began: When my oldest son turned 13, I let him get a paper route. But the thought of him roaming the neighborhood alone scared me, so I presented him with a cell phone for his birthday. I rationalized that since he was showing responsibility with a job, he could pay for the extra line. He handled it so well, I determined I would follow the pattern with my younger two kids.

But when my daughter was 11 she had an opportunity to travel to Lansing. Right away, I thought she was too young to go so far. But she really wanted to go and it was a great opportunity. I relented, but not without first surprising her with a sleek, hot pink cell phone before she left. But the gift had strings: She was to call me to say good night every night. And good morning every morning.

With four cell phones in our family of five, it occurred to me the only reason we were paying for a landline was to reach our youngest child when he was home. A simple math problem: $15 per month for one more account on our cell bill was cheaper.

So he got his mobile at the tender age of 10.

Now, a few years later, I am addicted to parenting-by-text.

Last weekend I sent my youngest off to a retreat in the Upper Peninsula. It was the first time he had been so far away for more than one night. He was a bit intimidated at first, and honestly, I was afraid for him. So, even though the leaders of the retreat

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had said, “No technology!” I urged him to take his phone so he could text me good night and good morning, you know, for my own peace of mind.

Renée The first night I Tanner waited anxiously for my cell to buzz. At Because 9:13 p.m., I couldn’t stand it and sent him I said so the following text: “Everything going all right? Having fun?” I waited patiently for the answer. Even a simple “K” would’ve eased my fears. But nothing.

At 10:35 p.m., I couldn’t help but to send off another. “Good night! I love you. Was it fun?”

And then there was no stopping me.

11:16 p.m. “Love you! Nite nite!

Pls answer so I don’t worry!”

12:42 a.m. “R u ok? Pls answer. I love you.”

8:08 a.m. “Good morning. I hope you have a wonderful happy fun day!”

9:04 p.m. “Hi. Hope ur day was fun. Can’t wait to see you tomorrow.”

7:16 a.m. “Good morning. Today is the day u come home. yippee!

See you in 6 hours.”

10:23 a.m. “Have you left yet?”

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My son didn’t answer my texts because he wanted to follow the rules. That is a good thing. But I spent my weekend picturing him being tortured by bullies and crying himself to sleep. Of course, now that it’s all over and I know he had fun, I feel silly.

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This out-of-control texting episode made me analyze my parental texting habits for this column.

I’m not counting the logistical texts such as, “I will be there soon,” “Your uncle is coming to get you,” and “Please start dinner.” Such texts simply replace a phone call from a landline or a few extra minutes of waiting for a ride. I’m talking about parentingby-text.

A check-up of my sent folder revealed a few of these: A reminder to the oldest to turn in paperwork for scholarships, an encouragement at a time when I knew he was having a tough day and a “Time for bed and lights out!” command after I was already snug under the covers and didn’t want to get up and/or yell at the top of my lungs through the house.

There was also one I sent to my daughter the night she hosted a sleepover and I was roused at midnight by several shrieks and laughter.

“Screaming? Really? It’s just a PG-13 thriller,” the text read. Yeah.

Some of us are trying to sleep.

How did my mother and grandmother handle the stress of not knowing where the kids were at every moment? Or of getting out of bed to tell their kids to be quiet?

In this age of texting, and GPS, only time will tell what will become of a generation that is followed so closely. And of their parents, who don’t have to trust and wait anymore.

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It’s still an empty lockbox WASHINGTON — Last week, President Obama’s budget chief, Jack Lew, took to his White House blog to Pulitzer Prize-winning repeat his claim that the columnist Social Security trust fund is solvent through 2037. And The Washington Post to chide me for suggesting otherwise. I had argued in only publicly held debt. my last column that the This means bonds held by trust fund is empty, indeed China, Saudi Arabia, you fictional. and me. The debt ratio comIf Lew’s claim were just pletely ignores the kind of wrong, that would be one intragovernmental bonds thing. But it provides the that Lew insists are the intellectual justification equivalent of publicly held for precisely the kind of bonds. debt denial and entitlement Why? Because the incomplacency that his boss tragovernmental bond is is now engaged in. Therenothing more than a bookfore, once more unto the keeping device that records breach. how much one part of the Lew acknowledges that U.S. government (Treasury) the Social Security surowes another part of the pluses of the last decades same government (the were siphoned off to the Social Security AdministraTreasury Department and tion). In judging the credspent. He also agrees that itworthiness of the United Treasury then deposited States, the world doesn’t corresponding IOUs — care what the left hand owes called “special issue” bonds the right. It’s all one entity.

— in the Social Security It cares only what that one trust fund. These have real entity owes the world. value, claims Lew. After That’s why publicly held all, “these Treasury bonds bonds are so radically are backed by the full faith different from intragovand credit of the U.S. governmental bonds. If we ernment in the same way default on Chinese-held that all other U.S. Treasury debt, decades of AAA credbonds are.” itworthiness is destroyed, Really? If these trust the world stops lending to fund bonds represent anyus, the dollar collapses, the thing real, why is it that economy goes into a spiral in calculating national and we become Argentina. indebtedness they are not That’s why such a default is even included? We measure inconceivable. national solvency by debt/ On the other hand, what GDP ratio. As calculated by would happen to financial everyone from the OMB to markets if the Treasury the CIA, from the Simpsonstopped honoring the “speBowles to the Domenicicial issue” bonds in the Rivlin commissions, the Social Security trust fund? debt/GDP ratio counts

Charles Krauthammer

A lot of angry grumbling at home for sure. But externally? Nothing.

This “default” would simply be the Treasury telling the Social Security Administration that henceforth it would have to fend for itself in covering its annual shortfall. How? By meanstesting (cutting the benefits to the rich), changing the inflation formula, raising the retirement age and, if necessary, hiking the cap on income subject to the payroll tax.

You can plug in whatever combination of numbers you prefer for the definition of “rich,” for the slope of the sliding scale of benefit reduction, for the rate of the retirement-age increase, or for any other variable. Whatever the formula, we will ironically have been forced to adopt the very reforms needed to keep Social Security in balance for years to come — the kind President Obama’s own deficit commission recommended. Arguably, that would add to U.S. creditworthiness by finally demonstrating to the world our seriousness about bringing our unsustainable pension liabilities under control.

Invoking the “full faith and credit” mantra for those IOUs in the trust fund is empty bluster. It does not change the fact that, as the OMB itself acknowledged, those IOUs “do not consist of real economic assets that can be drawn down in the future to fund benefits.” Yet Lew continues to insist that these “special issue” trin-

kets will pay off seniors for the next 26 years.

Nonsense. That money is gone with the wind. Those trust fund trinkets are nothing more than a record of past borrowings. They say nothing about the future.

Consider: If Treasury had borrowed twice as much from Social Security in the past — producing twice as many IOUs sitting in the lockbox — would this mean the trust fund is today twice as strong?

Solvent for 50-some years instead of just 26? Of course not. The trust fund “balances” are mere historical record-keeping. As the OMB itself admitted, future payouts will have to be met by future taxes and future borrowings — or by Social Security reform that, by reducing benefits, makes such taxing and borrowing unnecessary.

There is no third alternative. There is no free lunch.

And there is nothing in the lockbox.

Charles Krauthammer’s e-mail address is letters@charleskrauthammer.com.

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“The stage is set for widespread, major flooding,” National Weather Service Director Jack Hayes said.

“The worst is still ahead.”

Hayes told a briefing that the accumulated snowpack in the north central states is among the highest in 60 years.

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Obituaries Patricia Lee Erxleben

Patricia Erxleben died peacefully on Feb. 17, 2011, in Cape Coral, Fla. Patricia was born on Oct. 7, 1939, to Raymond and Sylvia Brennan in Detroit. Patricia went to Taylor Center High School.

She married Carl William Erxleben in Wyandotte in 1960. They owned and operated a party store in Woodhaven, and then in 1978 moved north to purchase the motel which is now known as the Best Western of Harbor Springs. In 1999, they started spending winters in Cape Coral, Fla. She will be dearly missed by her husband, Carl; children, Janyce (Erxleben) Welter, Kurt Erxleben (Christyn), Michael Erxleben (Lora); and her grandchildren, Ryan,

Eden, Kathryn, Sara, Michael and Noah and Christopher.

Patricia loved reading, crocheting, playing cards and was Erxleben an excellent cook.

Patricia was preceded in death by her parents, Sylvia E. and Raymond J. Brennan. She is survived by one sister, Lola Katterman.

A memorial service to celebrate her life will take place at 11 a.m. Friday, March 25, at Zion Lutheran Church in Petoskey. A luncheon will immediately follow at the church.

Donations may be made in memory of Patricia to Hospice of Little Traverse Bay.

NASA spacecraft circling Mercury

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eyein-the-sky spying on the solar system’s smallest and strangest planet, Mercury.

NASA’s spacecraft called Messenger successfully veered into a pinpoint orbit Thursday night after a 6 1/2-year trip and 4.9 billion miles and tricky maneuvering to fend off the gravitational pull of the sun. It is the fifth planet in our solar system that NASA has orbited, in addition to the Earth and the moon.

“It was right on the money,” Messenger’s chief engineer, Eric Finnegan, said. Messenger is in orbit that brings it as close as 120 miles above the planet’s surface. “This is as close you can possibly get to being perfect.”

“Everybody was whooping and hollering; we are elated,” Finnegan said.

“There’s a lot of work left to be done, but we are there.”

Mercury is not only difficult to get to, but it’s has some of the most extremes in the solar system. Temperatures there swing wildly by 1,100 degrees.

While it gets up to 800 degrees on the planet closest to the sun, it also is so cold and dark in some craters that the temperatures don’t get above 300 degrees below zero. Radar even shows that there is likely frozen ice in those McCleary of Diamondhead, craters, something Messenger will try to confirm.

Miss., Tracy In the 1970s, NASA sent a spacecraft, (Kohn) Fisher of

Louis William Mania, 71

Louis William Mania, age 71, passed away unexpectedly on Dec. 13, 2010, in Cadillac.

Louis was born on Feb. 13, 1939, in Petoskey, to the late William and Evelyn Mania. He was a 1957 graduate of Petoskey St. Francis High School.

On July 3, 1970, he married Mary Jane Hunt.

Louis worked for the Department of Natural Resources for almost 30 years, planting fish in the lakes and streams of Michigan. Retiring in June of 1997, he moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he lived until his move back to Michigan in November 2010.

Louis loved to fish on the Gulf Coast and travel but what he enjoyed the most was the ministry, and spending time with his family and friends.

Louis leaves behind his wife, Mary; three children; Jeff (Barbara) Mania of Chesapeake, Va., Linda

Kalkaska; two stepchildren; Tammy Stacey of Traverse City, Mania and Tim Hunt of Cadillac; seven grandchildren; seven stepgrandchildren; one greatgrandson; nine stepgreatgrandchildren; three brothers, Jim Mania of Big Rapids, John Mania of Petoskey, Tom Mania of Sterling; a sister, Marilyn Wisniewski, of New York; and several nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will take place at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 20, at the Lake City Kingdom Hall, 111 N. McGee Road, Lake City. A gathering of family and friends will immediately follow at the Falmouth school on Falmouth Road off Highway 66, south of Lake City.

Surprise visitor Charlevoix Elementary School kindergarten classes had a surprise visitor Thursday when they entered their classes — a leprechaun. In anticipation of the naughty fellow, the kindergartners made traps and set up tricks to catch him. RIGHT: Braylen Phillips and Sam Fry from Diane Priess’s class hold their shamrock ladders, found hanging from the ceiling. The children found “leprechaun dust” all over the ladders, so they knew the leprechauns were dancing through the air. BELOW: Kately Pawlak and Sydney Wurst from Priess’s class find the “gold coins” the leprechauns hid in the classroom. The playhouse is topsy-turvy from the leprechaun playing its tricks.

Also surviving are his children, Donna Leavesley, Cheryl (Randy) Brown, Edwin (Pam) Hubbard, Betty Bryant, Lori (Mike) Swartwood, Rhonda Boyle, Jaycee Bennett and DeeDee Elliott; 25 grandchildren; 27 greatgrandchildren; brother and sisters, JoAnn Haynes, Joyce Bennett, Edith Troutman and Steven Bennett; and numerous nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 19, at Alpine Village Baptist Church, 158 N. Townline Road, Gaylord with pastor David R. Burney officiating.

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This image released by NASA shows an enhanced photo image of Mercury from its Messenger probe’s 2008 flyby of the planet. NASA says it was a taste of pictures likely to come after when the probe enters Mercury’s orbit.

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Jere Dwain Bennett, age 70, of Boyne City, died Wednesday, March 16, 2011, at his daughter’s home in Gaylord surrounded by family.

He was born March 23, 1940, in Alhambra, Calif.

Jere served in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years and then joined the U.S. Coast Guard where he retired from active duty after 17 years. He dedicated his life to the welfare of veterans.

Counseling veterans as a licensed clinical social worker was very important to him.

He was also very involved in the Alpine Village Baptist Church in Gaylord and loved to ride his motorcycle.

On Feb. 7, 1969, he married Patricia Harmon in Portland, Maine, who survives.

Mariner, whizzing by Mercury, but only got pictures of less than half of the tiny rock. Robert Strom of the University of Arizona was a scientist on the Mariner and current Messenger missions and he said for a while he thought he wouldn’t get a second peek at the eccentric Mercury.

“I am just so thrilled it isn’t funny,” Strom said by telephone minutes after NASA confirmed that Messenger was in orbit. “Thirty-six years waiting for this day. It’s just unbelievable.”

Strom said he and all his colleagues were nervous as the desk-sized spacecraft automatically shifted into an eggshaped orbit, with controllers on Earth unable to change commands because it took eight minutes for signals to travel the approximately 100 million miles from Mercury to Earth.

“This was not easy. This was a very, very difficult maneuver to get into orbit,” Strom told The Associated Press.

A NASA Twitter account under Messenger’s name gave play-by-play accounts as it arrived at the small planet.

This “Messenger” “exchanged tweets” with Voyager 2, one of NASA’s oldest and most-distant spacecraft. Voyager 2, launched in 1977 and now at the edge of the solar system, tweeted good luck and Messenger “answered” with a tweet: “Many thanks! Cold out there?

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Tokyo’s usual crowds thin as nuclear fears rise Tomoko A. Hosaka Associated Press

TOKYO — Tokyo’s famous shopping mecca usually teems at lunchtime with tourists, office workers and fashionistas. Not Thursday.

In the upscale Ginza district — as elsewhere in the Japanese capital — public apprehension over a brewing nuclear disaster is draining streets and stores of the crowds that normally define this dynamic, densely packed city.

Shops, if they are open, struggle to draw customers. Some of the area’s b r a n d - n a m e d r aw s — Coach, Gucci, Swarovski, Zara, H&M — stood dark.

E v e n t h o u g h To k yo avoided major damage from last week’s earthquake, the metropolis is on edge as it eyes the unfolding crisis at a crippled nuclear power plant 140 miles away in northeast Japan. Rolling blackouts and ongoing aftershocks have added to the collective anxiety.

The city reported slightly elevated radiation levels earlier this week. Officials said the increase was too small to threaten the 39 million people in and around the capital, which is one of the world’s biggest cities.

But the government has at times been vague and slow to report information about a complex and frightening issue, fueling public mistrust and frustration.

Yukiko Morioka, 63, sells lottery tickets in a small booth in Ginza. She says foot traffic in the district has plunged as much as 80 percent since last week.

Her sales are so bad, she’s embarrassed to divulge them.

“I feel a sense of dread,” she said while listening to the news on a small radio. “I’m not an expert, so it’s difficult to understand what’s going on. T hat makes it scarier.”

Leaving is unrealistic because she has nowhere to go, Morioka said, her shoulders slumping.

The city is far from panicked. Tickets for the bullet trains that head south of town were still plentiful Thursday.

Rather, there is a quiet sense of worry and uncertainty that kept residents close to home. Shoppers emptied store shelves as they stocked up on food and supplies. Fuel shortages led to long lines at gas

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A man walks down a nearly empty street Thursday in Tokyo. In elsewhere in the nation’s capital, public apprehension over a brewinguclear n disaster is draining the streets and stores of the crowds that normally define this dynamic, densely packed city.

Sayuri Watanabe, from Chiba prefecture just east of Tokyo, said the nuclear situation had gotten too frightening. She, her husband and two children Yukiko Morioka, 63, lottery ticket seller were at Tokyo Station, about to board a train for Osaka, a city west of the capital. They plan to later move on to a friend’s house earthquake and the devin Hiroshima. astating tsunami that fol“Japanese television and lowed along the northeast other media are saying coast. that the capital region isn’t Mishima, a mother of that dangerous, but I heard two, was scheduled to move from a friend in China that to Hyogo prefecture in they are saying there that western Japan next week. the nuclear problem is bigBut she and her daughters ger and is a dangerous situdecided to leave Thursday. ation,” she said.

Her husband is staying When day turns to night, behind until the end of the emptiness of this big month for work. city is magnified.

“My husband is worried In Japan, office workers about the earthquakes and usually stay out long after the nuclear problem, so they’re done with work, he told me to take the chileating, drinking and bonddren and move early,” she ing with colleagues. This said, beginning to cry. She week, a good chunk of Tofelt bad for leaving friends kyo’s nightlife is taking a behind while she sought break. safety, she said.

“I feel a sense of dread. I’m not an expert, so it’s difficult to understand what’s going on. That makes it scarier.”

stations.

Major events have been canceled or postponed, including the World Figure Skating Champsionships and the Tokyo Inter national Anime Fair. The New Zealand football team withdrew from a March 29 charity match against Japan. Proceeds were intended to benefit victims of the earthquake last month in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Some like Naoko Mishima have had enough and are heading out of town.

They join many foreigners whose gover nments and companies have urged them to leave following the

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Most restaurants and bars near Hamamatsucho station in central Tokyo were closed at night, with few people roaming the streets after dark. The area is home to global manufacturers Toshiba Corp., NEC Corp. and Panasonic Corp.’s Tokyo offices.

Further north lies the Shimbashi train station, another major gathering spot for Japanese “salarymen.” In an adjacent plaza, Takehiro Kondo watched live news coverage by national broadcaster NHK on a big screen.

Kondo, 44, who runs his own art trading company, said he allowed several of his employees with family in western Japan to go home.

But he’s staying, saying

he has faith in the government’s efforts and ultimately, in Japanese technology.

“Nuclear power plants are built by Hitachi and Toshiba, which are two of Japan’s most prestigious companies with worldleading technologies,” he said. “I still believe in Japanese technology.”

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‘101 Dalmatians’ 70 elementary students preparing for May show ABOVE: The 70-member cast of the Petoskey Elementary Enrichment Program production of Disney’s “101 Dalmatians” assemble for a photo at Petoskey Central Elementary School. This year’s production is under the direction of Karen Mazzoline, assistant director Stephanie Asiala, musical director Jerry Westerman, choreographer Tracy Thomson, costumes by Jan Jarvis and the middle school theater apprenticeship program director Ann Chatterson. Performances will be 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday May 5-7, and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 8. Tickets will go on sale at all Petoskey elementary schools at the end of April. RIGHT: Musical director Jerry Westerman (right) works with cast member Adric Acosta (center) on his solo as other cast members look on during rehearsal of Disney’s “101 Dalmatians,” Wednesday at Central school.

News-Review photos by G. Randall Goss PETOSKEY

MSU Extension

Starting a business? This class is for you

Do you really need to make a business plan? Do you need help writing one?

The short answer is yes, you need one. If you need help, then keep reading.

The importance of a comprehensive, thoughtful business plan cannot be overemphasized.

Many factors critical to business success depend upon your plan: outside funding, credit from suppliers, management of your operation and finances, promotion and marketing of your business, and achievement of your goals and objectives.

Some people assume that if they are not going to seek financing from lenders or investors to open their business that they don’t need to prepare a business plan, but every business should have one. Writing a business plan serves as a road map for your venture when you’re starting out. It can help you figure out many key business elements, including: — What you will need to do to get started and what resources (time, money, etc.) you will need to expend — What it will take for your business to make a profit and how long that will take — What information potential customers, vendors and investors will need to know in order for you to market your business effectively Writing your business plan also forces you to think about your business objectively. When you’re done, you will have a more realistic idea of the ef-

fort it will require and whether it’s a venture you want to pursue at this time.

Don’t be intimidated. The process of sitting down and writing out a Ann business plan could Chastain spark your creativity and lead you to new business strategies you may not have considered previously. You’ll also find that having your business goals written down enables you to refer to them at any time. This will ensure you don’t lose sight of your original focus once you do start your business.

If you would like help with writing your business plan, you may want to apply for FastTrac New Venture Entrepreneurial Training, an intensive, 10-session highly interactive program that helps you evaluate your business idea, and develop an action plan for owning your own business. FastTrac training begins on Thursday March 24, at the Watson community resource building, M-119, Harbor Springs.

The key objectives of this class are helping you to: — plan your financial needs to avoid cash flow problems — structure your business operations for efficiency — test your business idea — broaden your understanding of business — develop entrepreneurial skills by learning from other entrepreneurs

Each class module includes three hours of fast paced facilitation, group and individual exercises, and guest speakers, who will share their specific small business expertise. There will be a fair amount of homework assigned at each session with the purpose of helping you build an in-depth first draft business plan. This is not offered as a credit course.

This class is for you if you’re starting a new venture, or are still in start-up phase; within the first three years of your business being launched, or moving into a new product, process, or service. This class will be most helpful if you intend to start or grow your business within the next 12-18 months.

Class fee is $140, a $700 value, because scholarships are available ($560 per student) for those who are serious about their business development plans.

Contact info@northernlakes. net or (231) 582-6482 for an application.

The class is sponsored and taught through MSU Extension, Northern Lakes Economic Alliance, Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center, Michigan Economic Development Corp and U.S. Small Business Administration.

Ann Chastain is Emmet County Extension Director. The MSU Extension column appears on the first and third Fridays of each month.

Chastain can be contacted at the Emmet County Extension office, 3434 Harbor/ Petoskey Road, Harbor Springs, Mich. 49740; telephone (231) 348-1770.

‘Just a Dream’

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Members of the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program perform “Just a Dream,” a script for Readers’ Theater written by (front row, from left) Carter Koetje, Justin Olson and Keegan Piehl, all fourth-grade students at Sheridan Elementary. The story emphasizes the importance of caring for the environment now, in order to make a beautiful, healthy future.

The script was based on the book by the same name, written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. Students were led in their writing efforts by AmeriCorps volunteer Ann Chatterson. Senior volunteers are (back, from left) Joan Rasmussen, Sue Ann Bouwense, Pat Denemy and Bill Denemy

CHARLEVOIX

Farm hosts maple syrup open house CHARLEVOIX — The Parsons Centennial Farm will host its fifth annual open house for its Harwood Heritage Gold Maple Syrup business from 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, March 20.

The event is intended as a celebration of spring and is designed with the whole family in mind.

Visitors will have the opportunity to attend different stations to

learn about the process of collecting maple sap and boiling it into maple syrup.

Available to visitors will be a demonstration of how to tap a tree, the collection system, reverse osmosis and boiling process, grading process, sugar-onsnow, and tastings.

The farm is located at 00061 Parsons Road. The event is free.

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PETOSKEY

Concord presents 4 plays in 3 days Concord Academy presents “Beyond Borders,� a middle school theater festival featuring four plays in three days — Thursday and Friday, March 24-25, and Wednesday, March 30, at the Crooked Tree Arts Center in downtown Petoskey.

Seventh- and eighth-grade students present “The Frogs,� a comedy written in 405 BC by Greek playwright Aristophanes. Performances will be 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, March 24-25.

The production of “The Frogs� includes a tiny

golfer with a monster club, slaves, bellowing beasts, fanfares, amazing amazons, gorilla guards, sound whippings, goddesses of Mountain Dew, Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw in a Big Time Wrestling Match, a rotund person in a cart, and 23 full size frogs.

The fifth- and sixth-grade will present three short plays from South America: — Thee Creation and the Birth of the Corn Gods, an Mayan creation myth “The Birth of the Corn God,� an ancient Mayan

Engagement Morris — Tally

Mr. and Mrs. Jamison Mork

Gagnon — Mork MaryBeth Gagnon and Jamison Mork, of Juneau, Alaska, were married at sunset on Nov. 24, 2010, on the beach in Tankah Bay, Mexico. Immediate family members gathered to witness the double-ring ceremony performed by the bride’s sister, Michelle Drapeau.

The bride is the daughter of John and Carol Gagnon of Charlevoix, and the groom is the son of Fred and Michelle Mork of Sitka, Alaska, and Jill and Eli Dergnoff of Pelican, Alaska.

The bride’s sister, Michelle Drapeau, played the guitar and sang as the bride walked down the

aisle with her father, John Gagnon. For her wedding, MaryBeth wore a strapless ivory satin gown and carried a bouquet of local tropical wildflowers.

The newlyweds spent their honeymoon traveling around the eastern Mexico coast. They then hosted a New Year’s Eve reception in Juneau, Alaska, where they are making their home.

Jamison is an Alaskan fisherman, and MaryBeth is the assistant director of the Juneau Alliance for Mental Health. She is a 1996 graduate of Charlevoix High School and a 2000 graduate of Western Michigan University.

myth, features live music, original choreography, giant puppets, dancing jaguars, birds and deer, giant snakes and wooden people turning into monkeys. — Licha’s Birthday Serenade from Mexico “Licha’s Birthday� is a Mexican story about how two sweet girls bring country folks and city folks together. The performance will be highlighted by a Mariachi band, a rooster dance match, enchiladas, and the classic Dance of the Old Men.

— Tale of the Lazy People from Colombia written by Gary Schils “Tale of the Lazy People� in based on a story from Columbia, written by Concord’s own, Gary Schils.

This production is filled with manikins, monkeys, butterflies, mosquitoes armed to the teeth, banana skins, corn chips, a junk food tree, endless consumption, and lazy people.

Performance of the three short plays will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 30.

Online relationship comes with risks

Patrick and Wendy Morris of Harbor Springs are announcing the engagement of their daughter, Maari Morris, to Steven Tally, son of Frank and Linda Tally of Los Barriles, Mexico.

The bride-elect earned a bachelor of science degree in psychology from Grand Valley State University and a master of arts degree in counseling and psychology from Western Michigan University. Maari is employed at Hope Network Behavioral Health in Grand Rapids.

Her fiancÊ has two bachelor’s degrees from Central Michigan University, one in business administration and

Dear Annie: My neighbor “Linda� has been single and lonely for years. A few months ago, she told me that she was communicating with a man she met on a personals website. I was initially happy to hear this, Steven Tally, Maari Morris but quickly changed my mind.

Over the past few weeks, marketing and the other in Linda has told me they broadcast and cinematic arts. have lengthy phone conSteven is employed in marversations every day, alketing strategy at Foremost though they haven’t met.

Farmers in Grand Rapids.

He originally told her he Maari and Steven are plan- lived nearby but travels a ning a Saturday, Oct. 29, wed- lot on business. Now she ding at the First Presbyterian says they will meet as soon Church of Petoskey. as he gets home, but that keeps getting delayed.

I am positive this guy is a con man, but nothing I say convinces her. I don’t CHARLEVOIX know if Linda has already given him money, because every time I bring it up, she gets angry. Will you please mutual funds, and the major share with your readers the CHARLEVOIX —The Charlevoix Public Library is exchanges as well as popular dangers of these romance scams? — Concerned hosting an investment funda- indexes and averages.

Friend One-on-one investment mentals seminar at 6:30 p.m.

Dear Concerned: We counseling sessions will be on Tuesday, March 22. don’t know if this guy is This seminar will help par- available after the seminar. taking money from Linda Registration is requested, ticipants understand fundaor if he’s simply a marmentals of stocks, bonds and (231) 237-7340.

Investment seminar offered

ried man, but we agree that something doesn’t seem right. A legit romance allows you not only to meet Annie’s each other Mailbox in a public place, but to be introduced to family and friends. A man who finds excuses to avoid meeting you is hiding something.

One who never lets you meet his friends or relatives is probably married.

And asking for a loan is completely off limits until a genuine commitment is in place.

You cannot protect Linda from her own risky impulses, but you can warn her that not all such relationships are honest and tell her you hope she will be careful.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. E-mail your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190, Chicago, Ill. 60611.

To advertise your worship services call Dawn Cross 231.439.9324 or email: dcross@petoskeynews.com

Alanson Church of the Nazarene M-68 & Mission Road, Alanson - 548-5462 Rev. David Brantley, Pastor Sunday School 9:45am • Morning Worship 11am Children’s Ministries and Nursery Provided www.alansonnazarene.org

Cross of Christ Lutheran Church E.L.C.A.

1450 E. Mitchell Road, Petoskey - 347-5448 8:30 am & 10 am service • 5th Sundays are single services at 10 a.m. nursery provided at second service Pastor Sherry McGuffin Paper Pantry: 2nd. Thursday of each month: 5-7 p.m.

4th. Thursday of each month: 9-11 a.m. e-mail us at crossofc@sbcglobal.net lutheransonline.com/crossofchristlutheranchurch

First Christian Church Pastor Jeffery Watton 308 Monroe Street, Petoskey (231) 347-6181 Sunday School / Adult Bible Study: 9 am Worship: 10 am • Nursery Provided Wednesday Prayer Groups: 9:30 am / 6:30 pm

Christ Episcopal Church

Community Reformed Church

200 State Street, Charlevoix - 547-6322

Corner of US 31 and Meech • Charlevoix • 547-9482

To celebrate God’s love through worship, ministry and hospitality

Pastor: Chip Sauer Sunday Worship: 8:30, 10:45 Sunday School for all ages: 9:45-10:30 • Nursery Available Sr. Hi 6:30pm Sunday • Jr. Hi 6:30pm Wednesday

John S. David, Rector 10:00 am Sunday - The Holy Eucharist Rite I during Lent 10:00 am Saturday - Bible Study

crcoffice@communityreformed.net • www.communityreformed.net

Emmanuel Episcopal Church 1020 E. Mitchell St., Petoskey - 347-2350 Rector, Rev. Gregory Brown 8:30 am Sunday - The Holy Eucharist, Rite I 10:00 am - Holy Eucharist Rite II Wednesday 5:30 pm - Lenten Supper followed by Book Study

Nursery will be provided Sunday 9:30-11:30

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First Presbyterian Church of Harbor Springs SUNDAYS: 10:00 am Traditional Worship, Children’s Sunday School, Nursery, Coffee Hour.

Corner of West Lake & Cemetery Roads, Harbor Springs 231-526-7332 STREAMING LIVE! 9:50 am Sundays: www.fpchs.org

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First Presbyterian Church of Petoskey 501 E. Mitchell St. 231-347-4792 Reaching Upward, Growing Inward, Sending Outward

Sunday Worship 9:45am

Sunday School 11:00am

Nursery Provided

office@petoskeypres.org

www.petoskeypres.org

Handicap Accessible • Elevator Access

Feeling Left Out?

The Catholic Communities of L’Arbre Croche MASS SCHEDULE

To join this directory call Dawn Cross today

Holy Childhood of Jesus Church - Harbor Springs Saturday 5:00 pm, Sunday 8:30 am & 11:00 am Holy Cross Church - Cross Village Saturday 4 pm St. Nicholas Church - Larks Lake Sunday 11am

Sunday School for all ages 10am Morning Service 11am • Evening 6pm • Mid-Week (Wednesday) 7pm

www.holychildhoodchurch.org • 231-526-2017

landmarkbaptistchurch.ws

231-439-9324 New Life Anglican Church

Petoskey United Methodist Church

Landmark Baptist Church 1182 Kemp Rd. • 231-347-2654

Independent Fundamental • Dr. Gary Biggs, Pastor

“More of His Graceâ€? Radio Show • WMKT 1270 AM • 9-10am Saturdays

Corner of Grove & Waukazoo, Petoskey

1804 E. Mitchell, Petoskey - 347-2733

St. Francis Xavier Church

(231) 347-3448 • www.newlifeanglican.com

8:45 am Contemporary Worship

513 Howard St.• Petoskey • 347-4133

Sunday Worship 10am • Nursery Available 7th-12th Youth Group, Sunday 6:30pm The Rev. Michael J. Bridge

10:00 am Sunday School for all ages 11:00 am Traditional Worship

Dr. James P. Mitchum, Pastor ~ www.petoskeyumc.org RADIO BROADCAST LIVE ON 92.1FM and 1270AM EVERY SUNDAY at 11:00 am

Word of Life Community Church 219 State Street, Petoskey 347-3362 Small Group Bible Studies for all ages 9:00 am Sunday Worship 10:00 am • Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 pm Nursery Provided during all services www.tmchurch.com

403 Madison, Petoskey Services at 10:30 a.m., Wed. at 7 p.m.

We are a non-denominational church sharing the love and hope of Jesus Christ.

John Alexandrowski - Pastor 348-8186

MASS SCHEDULE: Saturday 5pm • Sunday 8 & 10am Our family of faith welcomes all visitors to their home away from home.

Zion Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod)

7 -ITCHELL 3T 0ETOSKEY s Rev. Douglas G. Kenny, Pastor

Sunday & 10:30 10:30a.m. a.m.

SundayMorning MorningWorship Worship8:00 8:00 a.m. a.m. & Children’s Church & Adult Sunday 10:30 Schoola.m. & Bible ClassesBible 9:15Class a.m. 9:15 a.m.

Monday 7:07p.m. p.m.

MondayInformal Informal Worship Worship 7:07

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CHARLEVOIX HIGH SCHOOL Student opinion

Overcoming the ‘Barbie syndrome’ Annie Dipert Charlevoix High School

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Luke Stuck (right) and Lizzie Petrosky climb the rock wall in their physical education class.

Elementary physical education class ‘rocks’ Makenzie Boyd Charlevoix High School

CHARLEVOIX — Usually in elementary school, a normal day in physical education class consists of floor hockey, child games, soccer and a lot of other activities that will get the kids moving, but it’s a whole new world at Charlevoix Elementary. A rock wall that was installed a couple years ago by former gym teacher Dave Moyer brings a new reason for kids to be excited about gym class.

Makenzie The rock wall is Boyd used one week a month. It’s used in conjunction with different stations of activities such as bowling, basketball, jogging, hula hoops and scooters.

Groups of students will switch to

different stations and eventually will all get a chance at using the rock wall.

“I really like using the rock wall; it’s really fun because you can climb high,” third-grader Luke Stuck said.

According to P.E. teacher Dana Frank, the goal of this rock wall is to traverse it, or get across.

The first time across, students try not to touch the ground, and try and keep their feet below the red line. The second time they can put their feet on the red line, but not on anything above it.

“Most students are very successful. I tried it with some Begindergarten students, and it was challenging for them. Even the ones who had trouble were eager to get up and try it again,” said Frank.

Frank said there are also several safety issues with the rock wall. Mats must always lie beneath the rock wall, an adult

needs to be on the premises to supervise, and students must also wear “secure sneakers” — no boots, clogs, flats, or slip-ons.

If students don’t follow the rules, they don’t get to go on it anymore that day.

“Another thing I like about the rock wall is the safety,” thirdgrader Lizzie Petrosky said. “If I fall, the mats catch me.”

The rock wall is only for elementary kids. Because of the wear and tear that may outcome, it was not aimed for any adult use. There also is no weight limit, because at this time there is no elementary student who would exceed it.

“I’m excited to go to gym when the rock wall is set up, it’s so much fun!” third-grader Luke Stuck said.

Makenzie Boyd is a sophomore at Charlevoix High School. She is the daughter of Kim and Pat Boyd.

CHARLEVOIX — Beauty.

It is a constantly changing way of describing the attractiveness of a person. The media is much to blame, but is the girl on TV really influencing your insecurities?

Everyone knows Barbie. A popular doll we all as girls aspired to be like. She had blonde hair, tan skin and a body to die for. She had sisters that she got along with perfectly, a stud boyfriend and a thousand jobs. She had a few houses, a plane and several cars. She had everything. She Annie was beautiful to me.

Dipert Now I realize she is just a doll, but when you are that young you desire to mimic whatever you love. At a young age I set my standards for beauty. The lifestyle, the looks and the popularity were beauty to me.

As a teenager, I think I have grasped the concept of beauty.

I find a person beautiful when she has personality, poise and respect for themselves. I am very lucky to have realized this at a young age. But many girls still struggle with what beauty really is. We have shows such as Gossip Girl, The Real Housewives and Keeping up With the Kardashians that put negative images of glamour and gorgeousness into our lives. We have magazines like, Sports Illustrated, Victoria Secret and Cosmopolitan, blocking our perception of beauty as well. Programs and magazines like these have set the standard for what is beautiful today.

Next, a point which I have yet to meet in my life, adulthood.

This is a whole different realm of what good looks really are. By the time she has grown into herself, made mistakes and figured life out, she has probably grown to accept the fact that she is who she is, and she just will live with what she was given. But there

are still distractions like the new reporter your husband thinks is attractive, Jennifer Aniston, and physically fit women you envy.

Because they have what you want, a personal trainer, a stylist, time and a makeup artist.

Putting on fuchsia lipstick in the antique mirror is the only thing you have left that reminds her of her youth. She has reached old age, and can’t bear the fact that wrinkles are settling on her face, she is exhausted after a walk to get the mail and there are photos framed of the younger years all over the house as a friendly reminder that she is now old. Even at this age there is pressure to be beautiful. Have you ever noticed how elderly ladies wear pink lipstick and get acrylic nails? It is because they are longing for the past and comparing themselves to their younger versions.

We have gone through every changing point in a person’s life.

Child, teenager, adult and elder.

We have experienced things like Barbie who has a lot of jobs, an undetermined age and a wellendowed figure. Then there are people like Kim Kardashian who do not necessarily have the best personality but are an icon for males, to say it tactfully. Then there is a time when we resort to pink lipstick and sweaters with built-in turtle necks as we wish we could have appreciated our younger personalities that made us beautiful before.

Now, the question from the beginning. Is media to blame for our insecurities? The people around us may influence a lot of what we think is beautiful, but, no, I wouldn’t blame the media. Personality, self-assurance, esteem and kindness is what makes a person beautiful. Not your dress size, hair color, or body build. We are responsible for these insecurities, because we have learned to compare ourselves to what ‘beauty’ is since day one.

Annie Dipert is a junior at Charlevoix High School and the daughter of Kirby and Jacqueline Dipert.

Area students discuss school budget cuts Snyder’s plan

Kelsea Stevens Charlevoix High School

CHARLEVOIX — On Feb. 17, Gov. Rick Snyder released the budget plan for Michigan. This plan is to help Michigan out of the $1.6 billion deficit it is in.

Snyder said his budget will be a “new, sound foundation for Michigan’s reinvention.”

One area of the proposal sparked arguments. The budget cuts to schools.

“I think the plans Rick Snyder is making are a good thing to help Michigan, but I don’t agree with the school budget cuts. They should make cuts to Kelsea other areas instead Stevens of schools,” Charlevoix High School student Katie Paramo said.

In the upcoming budget year, Snyder wants to make an 8 to 10 percent funding cut to schools.

The plan proposes a $470 cut per student to school systems. This will be difficult for school districts which have struggled with inflation for the last eight years and were counting on getting more money.

Snyder would also move $896 million in the school aid fund to colleges and universities. Many Michigan citizens said this was a betrayal to the K-12 schools who were promised that this fund would strictly be used for them.

“I don’t agree with Snyder’s plan. If the cuts cause more teachers to go without jobs, then less people have money to spend on other things, which causes the economy to shrink. That means more foreclosures and more people leave Michigan to find jobs. In the end, the budget in Michigan might be fixed, but

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Working at their desks, Charlevoix High School students attend a class that has a scarcity of students.

the economy will still be suffering,” Charlevoix High School teacher Kristine Swanson stated.

Controversy over these cuts has been made known by the public. Michigan citizens show a mix of relief and displeasure with the proposal. A recent EPIC-MRA poll that was taken shows 62 percent oppose Snyder’s plan, 32 percent are in favor and 6 percent are undecided.

“I think right off the bat

people are going to complain about the budget cuts. They don’t know what to expect and are skeptical. But in the long run the plan is going to be good for Michigan and will get the state out of debt,” Traverse City West High School student Erik Charters said.

In most school districts faculty and students were already feeling the belt being tightened financially. Charlevoix Public Schools cut more than $500,000

last year. That meant laying off teachers, and lowering the funds for maintenance, athletics, faculty and conferences. Fourteen teachers were laid off because of the cuts.

If a school district is in great financial distress, an emergency financial manager will be issued to the district. The emergency manager has the power to control the school district’s finances and academics, terminate contracts with vendors, contractors

School budget cuts are not the only cuts being made to the state; Snyder’s plan includes cuts to many areas.

Snyder eliminated tax breaks for seniors and low-income workers and is getting rid of many other income tax deductions.

Snyder would halt a scheduled decrease in state income taxes.

State employees are asked for $180 million in cuts, which would be negotiated with the unions.

Snyder plans to put $200 million toward the $14.5 billion liability for state retiree health care.

Snyder plans on taxing pensions and slashing the cost of public employee benefits and scale back or eliminate tax credits.

He also would significantly cap the amount of tax credits for companies that make movies in Michigan at $25 million.

Governor Rick Snyder’s $45 billion proposal for the fiscal year starts Oct. 1. With everything that is being changed it will save the state around $900 million a year.

and unions, and close school districts and relocate them to a neighboring district.

“It’s scary how much control an EFM would have; it’s like a dictatorship. I really hope it does not come to that. It feels like the school systems are losing all their rights,” said Charlevoix student Cassidy Stebe.

Kelsea Stevens is a sophomore at Charlevoix High School. She is the daughter of Mary Lou and Randy Stevens.

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Winners in the “What Makes a Good Parent” drawing contest include second-graders (front row, from left) Ty Kennard, Blackbird, son of Sco tt and Jamie Kennard; Margaret Sheets, Charlevoix, daughter of Alec and Barb Sheets;Ciarra Godzik, Pellston, daughter of Missy Godzik; (back row, from left) Emma Lindwall, Sheridan, daughter of Nicole and Nils Lindwall; Kaiya Leismer, Boyne City, daughter of Martthew and Charlene Leismer;and Maggie Ryan, Alanson, daughter of Richard and Becky Ryan. Absent from the group photo are winners (at right) Matt Kage, Charlevoix, son of Mark and Heather Kage; Alison Sape, Charlevoix, daughter of Mark and Heather Sape; and Jon Nummer, Concord Petoskey, son of Don and Lacy Nummer.

Matt Kage

Third-graders pen essays The annual “What Makes a Good Parent” essay contest is sponsored by the Child Abuse Council serving Emmet and Charlevoix counties.

Third-graders in Charlevoix and Emmet counties were invited to participate with the hope of raising awareness of Parenting Awareness Month while encouraging youngsters to express what they feel constitutes a “good parent.” It also gives thirdgraders a chance to show off their writing skills.

The writings are collected and turned over to Petoskey High School seniors in Glen Young’s class who choose the final selections. All entrants receive a certificate of participation, with the nine winners also receiving a medal for their published work.

The winning essays are being printed in the Petoskey NewsReview each Friday during March.

This year’s contest was expanded to include a drawing contest for second-graders using the same theme. Nine selections were chosen by Jennifer Kanine’s Petoskey High School Studio I/II art students. The nine winning drawings are on display at the Charlevoix and Petoskey public libraries this month.

For questions regarding the contest, contact Maggie Kromm at (231) 753-8511 or childabusecouncil@gmail.com.

she died. It was my mom. She was the best parent ever. Se did not be mean ever. I really hope you have a really nice parent when you are, and when you were a kid. Because I did not have one a parent fore long. This is a nuther way that makes a good parent. Have you ever say your mom or dad smok.

Well I have. And it’s not cool or fun to whatch them do it! If you see your parents doing it tell them this little message, Stop smoking!!!!!! My parents smoke just like all the ether people that smok. This is unuther way that makes a good parent. Do you have a house to live in, to eat in, to sleep in, and all that ether stuff. I do. How lucky am I. A lot of people around the world do not have a house at all. If one of your dreames are to have a beder house just be glad you have a house. And don’t throw a fit abot it ether. Baby. And that’s what maks a good parent.

Hayden is the son of Karen and Tim Fraley.

Hayden Prevo-Charlevoix I’m going to talk about what makes a good parent. There is three ways in this story that make a good parent.

One of them is not smoking. Anuther is that your parent be’s nice to you. The last one is making sure you have a house to live in and all that ether stuff. This is what makes a good parent. Have you ever whanted a parent that is nice to you. Well, I had one intell Hayden Prevo

Sean Bradley-Charlevoix

a rock and hard place. This means to be stuck in a situation where nomater wherever you go you afraid of losing what ever. I think this is important because if you don’t know what to do then you need som one who does.

Another thing you need is a good heart. With a good heart you cannot just then but their feelings. If Sean Bradley you understand them then you can figure out what’s causing them. With a good heart you will adore your son.

Another thing stupendous parents do is not yell. If you yell at your child they will get mad at you and won’t bond or talk to you like a kid and parent should. This is bad because they won’t look up to you.

This is what a good parent should be like. Again I recemend you do this.

Are you a good parent? Here the things are. Be able to help them in bad situations, have a good heart and don’t yell.

you will show it to other people to. Like when I had a bad day my mom showed me compassion and then my day went better.

Parents with rules are the way to go.

Because when your parents have rules it teaches you to fowlow them. Like when I was little I didn’t fowlow the rules and I got into trouble.

Smart parents are great. Beacause when you have a smart parent they know when to put you into school and things like that. Like when I had a Christmas program my mom know what to dress me in and when to get me on stage.

Positive parents are the 3rd best. The reason why is because when parents are honest you are honest.

Like when I glued a note to my mom and dad’s wall I said peter pan did it!

Generess parents are good sometimes. But… it Mamie depends what time it is.

Beauchamp Like one time I scared my little sister Abby and my dad didn’t let me do what I wanted that day.

Last but not least non-parents are the best. Beacuase when they don’t fight you don’t fight. Like it teaches you to be nice to people. And I really hoped you liked my ideas because I really want to hear yours.

Sean is the son of Paul and Carla Bradley.

I think it takes somethings to be a good parent. If you a parent I’d recommend that you do this or you might be a mean, rude parent. If you are then you get a mean child and calls from school your not gonna like trust me. So if you don’t want your child to bully don’t bully them for peet sakes!

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Retirees see pension tax as attack on middle class

LANSING (AP) — Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is drawing recall threats and angry protests over his attempt to do what no Michigan governor has tried in more than 40 years: Tax the pension and 401(k) incomes of millions of retirees.

The move has brought demonstrators to the Capitol and has thousands of seniors reminding the new governor that they could make re-election difficult for him and lawmakers who go along. Democrats oppose the move, and even some GOP lawmakers are casting about for an alternative to avoid raising taxes on a powerful interest group.

Snyder remains undeterred. The multimillionaire for mer Gateway computer executive says Michigan — which has some of the nation’s most generous senior tax breaks— can’t afford the $900 million it loses because of them, and that retirees need to pay their share rather than pushing the burden onto younger residents.

Arnold Eick, a 73-yearold former General Motors manager, says he needs those tax breaks to stay afloat. Like many retirees, he’s incensed that he

and the working poor who would lose a tax credit are being asked to pay more so Snyder can reduce business taxes.

“I just can’t understand how anybody can be that unfair, that evil, to take from the poor and give to the rich,” Eick said.

Michigan currently charges no income tax on public pensions and exempts up to $45,120 worth of income from private Snyder pensions, 401(k)s and IRAs for an individual retiree, with limits of twice that for a retired couple. Treasury figures show about a fifth of the tax returns filed each year include pension income.

E i ck s ay s h i s o u t - o f pocket health expenses hit $27,000 over a three-year period because GM took away health care for salaried retirees. If the pension exemption also ends, the Flushing resident estimates he and his wife may owe $3,000 in annual income tax — something he says could make meeting his mortgage payment impossible.

“We’re going to have to leave our home,” he said while carrying a sign promising retribution. “I’m old but I can recall two things,” it said. “1. Tax refunds. 2.

You.” Snyder campaigned last year on a promise to replace the complex and unpopular Michigan Business Tax with a 6 percent corporate income tax, a move that would eliminate $1.7 billion in revenue. But he didn’t reveal until last month that he wanted to pay for it by requiring more money from individual taxpayers.

The governor has put the business tax cut and pension tax increase into one bill so lawmakers cannot choose between them. But many Republicans see Snyder’s plan as violating their pledge not to raise taxes, and some lawmakers are talking about shrinking the size of the business tax cut so they don’t have to totally eliminate senior tax breaks.

“I like the gover nor’s business tax, but I don’t think seniors should have to pay for it,” said GOP Sen. Jack Brandenburg, from a traditionally anti-tax district north of Detroit. “If he puts this in with this business tax (cut), I will not

vote for it. . . . It’s going to go down.”

Snyder says the business tax cuts are needed to help the struggling state add jobs. He argues that Michigan should never have exempted public pensions in the 1960s or eliminated taxes on other retirement inc om e sinc e then . He also wants to eliminate a $2,300-per-person tax break for those 65 and over and reduce the credit seniors get for property tax payments.

Retiree James Baker sees it as an example of efforts

by Republican governors like Wisconsin’s Scott Walker to attack the middle class and help the businesses that donated to their campaigns.

And like many in that state, he’s ready to rise up and demand that Michigan’s governor back down.

“It’s an issue he’s using to shift taxes away from businesses,” said Baker, 58, who retired in 2009 after working 31 years as a state environmental analyst and who would pay roughly $1,350 in taxes on his annual $32,000 pension. “I do think he’s on the same page as Governor Walker.”

Mike Martin, a 60-yearold recently retired Treasury worker from Kalamazoo, says he could see taxing

Grandma will have to really skimp while the attorney in the $1,500 suit will get a tax cut. . . . I think that’s misleading,“ said Michigan State University economics professor Charles Ballard.

“Under the current law, you could have a senior citizen couple with retirement income well over $100,000 and they pay not a penny of income tax. Whereas the 38-year-old single mom trying to make it as a nurse’s aide has a tiny fraction of that and yet she pays income tax.”

Snyder says it’s unfair to ask other taxpayers to shoulder the cost of services the growing number of seniors need while they pay nothing.

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sit paid a 2 percent fee because it operated during the extended season when there are fewer passengers.

The penalty for violating the ordinance was also changed from a criminal misdemeanor to a civil infraction.

Ticket prices will also be set by the ferry companies, although there will be a cap of $24 for a regular, round-trip ticket. However, if the ferry lines decide rates need to be raised, say, because of increasing fuel prices, the city council could reconsider the rate cap.

There are also limits placed on free and discounted travel, a primary concern of Shepler’s.

“Shepler’s has a 65-year history of serving Mackinac Island residents and visitors, and this over-reaching ordinance unduly interferes with Shepler’s ability to continue to do that,” said Ellen Crane, Shepler’s attorney. “Preparations for the coming season are under way and Shepler’s inability to offer their customers the best price possible is a blatant abuse of the city’s power. Mackinac Island is essentially thumbing its nose at deliberative government, island residents, businesses and visitors.”

The new version of the ferry ordinance also gives the city of Mackinac Island the authority to both revoke and grant licenses to the ferry

companies. The city can also look at ferry company financial records at will and increase penalties for noncompliance with the franchise terms.

Tom Pfeiffelmann, owner of Star Line, told the council he had concerns regarding who would have access to ferry financials. Chris Shepler, vice president of Shepler’s Mackinac Island Ferry, has also expressed similar concerns.

“When we hand over our laundry — our books — if we give it to the city it becomes public knowledge,” Pfeiffelmann told the council. “Unlike Detroit Edison that serves several areas, we’re three companies that serve one area. It is important to us that our competitor, let alone the public, doesn’t see what we’re doing.”

Pfeiffelmann added while he had no problem giving the financial information to an accountant, he asked for confidentiality.

The city’s attorney, Mike Cavanaugh, said one possibility would be to provide the financial information to an auditor provided by the city.

“But also, the other argument can be made that these are public utilities and (the information) should all be out in the light of day,” Cavanaugh said.

Cavanaugh added that the council can decide how to handle the fi-

nancial issue at a later date.

Representatives for Arnold Line have said they approve of the changes.

Even without franchises for the 2011 season, the ferry boats remain docked because of ice conditions in the Straits.

This season, Arnold Transit Company and Star Line are expected to work together as one company, Northern Ferry Company. James Wynn, owner of Arnold Transit Company, and Pfeiffelmann, owner of Star Line, proposed to a merge last October. Wynn also asked the council for a sole franchise.

In November, the council denied that request, and instead announced it would give all three lines franchises if they met new terms and conditions determined by the council.

In response to the proposed merger, Shepler’s filed an anti-trust lawsuit against the Arnold Transit Company, its owner, James Wynn, and the city of Mackinac Island.

Arnold Transit Company and the city have filed counterclaims in the case.

The Michigan Public Service Commission is also investigating ferry operations after a complaint filed by Shepler’s.

The commission is looking into the rates, fares, charges and tariffs of the ferry companies.

Japan official: Disasters overwhelmed government

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government acknowledged Friday that it was overwhelmed by the scale of last week’s twin natural disasters, slowing the response to the nuclear crisis that was triggered by the earthquake and tsunami that left at least 10,000 people dead.

The admission came as Japan welcomed U.S. help in stabilizing its overheated, radiation-leaking nuclear complex, and reclassified the rating of the nuclear accident from Level 4 to Level 5 on a sevenlevel international scale, putting it on a par with the 1979 Three Mile Island accident.

Nuclear experts have been saying for days that Japan was underplaying the crisis’ severity.

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Scale defines a Level 4 incident as having local consequences and a Level 5 as having wider consequences.

Hidehiko Nishiyama of Japan’s nuclear safety agency said the rating was raised when officials realized that at least 3 percent of the fuel in three of the reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant had been severely damaged, suggesting those reactor cores have partially melted down and thrown radioactivity into the environment.

“The unprecedented scale of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, frankly speaking, were among many things that happened that had not been anticipated under our disaster management contingency plans,” said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano,

admitting that information had not been shared quickly enough.

“In hindsight, we could have moved a little quicker in assessing the situation and coordinating all that information and provided it faster,” he said.

Later, Prime Minister Naoto Kan urged the nation to unite.

“We will rebuild Japan from scratch. We must all share this resolve,” he said in a nationally televised address, calling the crises a “great test for the Japanese people.”

At the stricken complex, military fire trucks sprayed the reactor units for a second day, with tons of water arcing over the facility in desperate attempts to prevent the fuel from overheating and spewing dangerous levels of radiation.

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such as comfort for multiple passengers — alongside fuel economy once again. In the past few weeks, he’s noticed gas mileage becoming a bigger emphasis once again for prospective buyers.

“When you look at it, there’s definitely an uptick in interest for the more fuel-efficient models,” he said.

At the Kring dealership, Chevrolet’s compact Cruze sedan — which carries highway fuel-mileage ratings in the upper 30s and low 40s, depending on how it’s equipped — has piqued interest recently from numerous shoppers who place an emphasis on fuel economy, Schupbach said. The Chevrolet Equinox, a small SUV with highway mileage ratings well into the 20s, has been a popular choice as well.

Another Chevrolet vehicle now entering the market, the Volt plug-in hybrid, has drawn considerable media attention for its promise of fuel economy. The five-door hatchback’s powerplant includes electric motors — with a battery that can be charged using household electric power — as well as a gasoline engine. The Volt is designed to operate on electric power alone for shorter trips. The gasoline engine powers a generator that can supply the motor and battery and extend the Volt’s range, with the engine also able to help propel the vehicle at highway speeds.

Schupbach said Kring is among the second round of dealers scheduled to receive the Volt — earlier models tended to be released in more metropolitan markets — and he expects the first to be delivered to the Petoskey dealership by late March or April. Kring has established a waiting list of purchasers for the Volt.

Schupbach said the dealership’s positive sales trend hasn’t been limited to fuel efficient vehicles recently, with larger models also seeing a rebound following the market downturn of 2008-09.

Renewed interest in fuel economy also has been seen at Subaru By-theBay, which has Petoskey and Bay Shore locations.

Ryan Bremmeyr, sales manager for the Subaru dealership, said Subaru’s all-wheel-drive lineup — which offers higher gas-mileage ratings than many truck-based fourwheel-drive products — appeals to customers for its promise of economy as well as traction.

Between the 2008 and 2010-11 gasoline price spikes, Bremmeyr said fuel-economy concerns relaxed a bit for some shoppers at the Subaru

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Assistant general manager at Stafford’s Pier Restaurant Commute: Charlevoix to Harbor Springs, five to six days a week Total round-trip mileage:55 miles When Lindsey Walker, 27, assistant general manager at Stafford’s Pier Restaurant in Harbor Springs, was in the market for a new car in 2008, she had gas mileage on her mind.

“You really have to weigh the options living in Northern Michigan,” she said. “Four-wheel drive is great for the winter, but I knew the gas prices would kill me with a bigger vehicle.”

Walker, who commutes to Harbor Springs from Charlevoix, 55 miles round-trip five to six days a week, purchased a Chevrolet Malibu Maxx. It’s a small hatchback that gets 27 to 30 miles to the gallon.

She fills up on gas every seven to eight days. With gas hovering around $3.60 a gallon, she pays between $50-$55 a week.

While she’s been happy with her car and gas mileage, the rising gas prices are a big concern. She remembers 2008 when gas prices rose to $4 a gallon.

“It’s just unfortunate because there’s not a whole lot I can do about it — it’s a drive I have to make,” Walker said. “It affects everyone. When the price goes up I will have to limit my discretionary spending. I won’t go out to eat, so that money won’t go in a server’s pocket. I won’t go to the movies. It’s a chain reaction.”

“I thought it was bad a couple years ago, I’d hate to see that again. Our economy can’t afford that,” she added.

Jason Spegele

Student at Northwestern Michigan College Commute: Charlevoix to Traverse City, five days a week Total round-trip mileage: 98 miles In 2009, Jason Spegele, 37, of Charlevoix, knew he was going to lose his job.

He worked in yacht sales, a commission based position that Spegele said was wonderful when it was going well, but when the economy took a turn, wonderful turned into horrible.

“My wife, Amy, asked me what I wanted to do,” Spegele said. “I was in the Coast Guard before I went to college and I always wanted to drive the big ships like freighters and tankers. I thought about it and decided I wanted to get back on the water.”

So last fall, Spegele, who already has a college degree, returned to school at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City.

He commutes 98 miles round-trip, five days a week, in a Ford Exhibition that gets 12-and-a-half miles to the gallon.

“We’re stuck with the Ford for now. It’s almost paid off and we don’t make enough currently to go get a decent loan for a smaller car,” Spegele explained. “Yeah, a smaller car would be nice, but it doesn’t fit our lifestyle because we camp and I haul boats on the side in the summer. It just doesn’t make sense.”

Spegele will continue to make the long commute for another year and a half. He expects to graduate in the fall of 2012.

After graduation, Spegele will work about six months out of the year and make about $90,000 to support his family of four.

“The maritime industry is so solid and stable, and the money is amazing,” Spegele said. “This is really hard right now financially, but it will all be worth it.”

But for now, Spegele will continue to pay about $140 a week in gas, while his wife pays about $60 for her commute from Charlevoix to Petoskey.

“Wow, we spend about $800 a month in gas,” he said.

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— Turn off the air conditioning. dealership, although they remained on many buyers’ minds. In recent months, he said those concerns seem to be growing again — more for what might be ahead than for the current gas-price situation.

“With $3.50 (per gallon), people are getting a little nervous,” he said.

“Four dollars will be a totally different ballgame.”

In recent months, Bremmeyr has seen an uptick in larger vehicles traded in for Subarus.

“We took them straight to the auction,” he said. “I don’t want to get caught with them if gas prices go higher.”

For larger vehicles with lower gas mileage, Bremmeyr said used-market values have shown a bit of downward movement recently, but not as significant as was observed during

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At Bob Mathers Ford in Boyne City, general manager Bob Mathers Jr. recalled that fuel-economy concerns made Ford’s compact Focus a stronger seller for the dealership in 2008. During the recent fuel-price increase, he said he hasn’t seen significant movement toward Ford’s most-fuel efficient models.

“People have talked about it, but nobody’s really made the move,” Mathers said.

Although not rated for fuel economy as high as the smaller Fiesta, Focus and Fusion models, Mathers noted that midsize SUVs and larger sedans — which have been more common choices for customers recently — now can deliver highway mileage in the 20s, which many people find reasonable.

Jeff Johnson

Online sales rep at the Petoskey News-Review Commute: East Jordan to Petoskey, five days a week, plus additional work travel Total round-trip mileage: 51 miles to the office; another 500 per month in travel Jeff Johnson, 38, spends much of his work week on the road.

In addition to his 51-mile round-trip commute from East Jordan to Petoskey, Johnson also travels on average another 500 miles a month to meet with clients.

While those work trips are partially reimbursed, Johnson estimates that he and his wife, Christina, who works as a real estate agent, spend on average about $1,000 a month in gasoline. And that $1,000 doesn’t include shuttling the kids around, taking trips or running errands on the weekend.

“That’s more than my mortgage. That’s pretty sick,” Johnson said.

Johnson drives a Ford Ranger that gets 15 to 16 miles to the gallon. On days he knows he will have a lot of driving, he often swaps vehicles with his wife, who drives a Chevrolet Impala, to save a little on gas.

But while the price of gas hits the Johnson family hard each month, Johnson feels high gas prices are minor to the rising costs of other necessities in life.

“The increase in gas prices are pretty insignificant week-to-week when you really look at it,” he explained.

“I’m more concerned about rising health care cost and the cost of everything else that’s going up in this economy.”

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Gadhafi defiant in face of no-fly action

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi’s regime defiantly closed Libya’s airspace to all traffic while the West made plans to enforce a no-fly zone and prevent his forces from attacking rebels after the U.N. authorized “all necessary measures” to protect the Libyan people, including airstrikes.

The U.N. Security Council resolution was approved late Thursday with the backing of the United States, France and Britain, hours after Gadhafi vowed to launch a final assault and crush the nearly 5-week-old rebellion against him.

President Barack Obama telephoned the leaders of Britain and France after the vote, the White House said. U.S. officials speaking after a closed-door briefing in Congress said the attempt to ground Gadhafi’s air force could begin by Sunday or Monday with the use of jet fighters, bombers and surveillance aircraft.

The British Cabinet held an emergency meeting as British planes were expected to take part in the international military action.

NATO envoys in Brussels also were considering next steps.

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Supporters of Muammar Qaddafi shout slogans in the hotel where foreign media stays in Tripoli, early Friday. The U.N. Security Council voted Thursday to impose a no-fly zone over Libya and authorize “all necessary measures” to protect civilians from attacks by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, hours after the Libyan leader vowed to crush the rebellion with a final assault on the opposition capital of Benghazi. quences of such action are unpredictable. The former head of the British army, Richard Dannatt, said it was crucial to proceed cautiously “so we don’t get into the kind of situation that we got into in Iraq by not having a Plan B for the

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But the Western powers faced pressure to act urgently after weeks spent deliberation over what to do about Gadhafi as his regime gained momentum.

Gadhafi, calling in to Libyan television on Thursday,

said his forces would “rescue” the people of Benghazi, the eastern Mediterranean port city that has become the de-facto rebel capital and staging ground.

For those who resist, Gadhafi said, there would be “no mercy or compassion.”

“This is your happy day, we will destroy your enemies,” he said, warning the people of Benghazi not to stand alongside the opposition. “Prepare for this moment to get rid of the traitors. Tomorrow we will show the world, to see if the city is one of traitors or heroes.”

Gadhafi also pledged to respond harshly to U.N.sponsored attacks in an interview with Portuguese television broadcast just before the vote. “If the world is crazy,” he said, “we will be crazy, too.”

His ground forces were about 80 miles (130 kilometers) south of the city on Thursday evening, so it was unclear whether they would move on the city as quickly as he suggested.

A large crowd in Benghazi was watching the vote on an outdoor TV projection and burst into cheers, with green and red fireworks exploding overhead. In Tobruk, east of Benghazi, happy Libyans fired weapons in

the air to celebrate the vote.

Europe’s air traffic control agency, Eurocontrol, said Friday that “the latest information from Malta indicates that Tripoli (air control center) does not accept traffic.”

The Brussels-based agency had no information on how long Libya’s airspace would be closed but said it had halted all air traffic to Libya for 24 hours.

Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim struck a more conciliatory tone, offering to negotiate a cease-fire with the rebels.

He welcomed the Security Council’s concern for the people of Libya but called on the world not to allow them to receive weapons.

“If any countries do that, they will be inviting Libyans to kill each other,” he said.

In T ripoli on F riday, foreign journalists were barred from leaving their hotel.

The shift toward international action reflected dramatic change on the ground in Libya in the past week.

The rebels, once confident, found themselves in danger of being crushed by an overpowering pro-Gadhafi force using rockets, artillery, tanks, warplanes. That force has advanced along

the Mediterranean coast aiming to recapture the rebel-held eastern half of Libya.

Gadhafi troops encircled the city of Ajdabiya, the first in the path of their march, but also had some troops positioned beyond it toward Benghazi.

The unrest in Libya began Feb. 15 in the eastern city of Benghazi and spread east to Tripoli, the capital.

Like others in the Mideast, the protest started with popular demonstrations against Gadhafi, rejecting his four decades of despotic and often brutal rule. The tone quickly changed after Gadhafi’s security in Tripoli forcefully put down the gatherings there.

Soon rebel forces began arming themselves, quickly taking control of the country’s east centered on Benghazi, the second largest Libyan city, with a population of about 700,000. Some Libyan army units joined the rebels, providing them with some firepower, but much less than Gadhafi’s remaining forces, and crucially, no air power.

T here are no of ficial death tolls. Rebels say more than 1,000 people have been killed in a month of fighting, while Gadhafi claims the toll is only 150.

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Red Wings shut out Columbus, win fourth straight COLUMBUS, Ohio — Recently recalled Joey MacDonald made 37 saves for his second NHL shutout, and Drew Miller and Valtteri Filppula scored first-period goals to lift the Detroit Red Wings past the Columbus Blue Jackets 2-0 on Thursday night.

After snapping Washington’s nine-game winning streak on Wednesday, the Red Wings won their fourth in a row to give Mike Babcock his 300th career win. He is the third NHL coach to win 300 games over a six-season span, joining Scotty Bowman (321) and Glen Sather (307).

The Blue Jackets have lost nine of 10.

MacDonald joined the team on Wednesday while Chris Osgood continues to rehab from sports hernia surgery. He preserved the shutout with a late goal-line glove save on Rick Nash that withstood a video review.

Petoskey’s Tamm named to All-State first-team for a second season

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MIDLAND — Good things can be just as good, if not better, the second time around.

For a second straight season, Petoskey forward Kerby Tamm was named to a girls’ basketball Associated Press All-State first team as the senior was selected to the Class A first-team by a panel of sports writers from across the state.

A 5-10 senior and four-year “She’s letter winner been a with the Northm e n , T a m m great team averaged 16.8 player and points, 8.5 reb o u n d s , a n d she makes 5.9 assists and those shot 53 percent from the around her floor in lead- better.” i ng Pet oskey to a 20-3 record —Matt Tamm a n d a N o. 1 0 Petoskey girls’ state ranking. basketball coach on Tamm, a three- daughter Kerby Tamm year captain, is the Nor thmen’s all-time scoring leader with 1,356 points and also the program’s all-time rebounding leader with 802. “ S h e ’s h a d a t re m o u d o u s

work ethic for the game of basketball,” Petoskey coach and Tamm’s father Matt Tamm said.

“You look at her stastistics over the four years and she’s been very consistent, but I’ve been

GIRLS’ BASKETBALL

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Saints march on to finals; Trojans fall EAST LANSING (AP) — It took a year, but Nicole Elmblad and St. Ignace got some revenge on Flint Hamady.

In a rematch of last year’s Class C championship game — won by Hamady in double overtime — Elmblad scored 28 points to lead the Saints to a 63-55 win over Hamady in a Class C semifinal Thursday.

In a Class D state semifinal game, Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes defeated Central Lake, 5241, to hand the Trojans and Miss Basketball winner Jasmine Hines their first loss of the season.

For the second year in a row, the Class C game turned into a scoring duel between Elmblad and Hamady’s Arlesia Morse. In the 2010 title game, Elmblad outscored Morse 36-26.

Hamady (26-1) led 44-42 when Morse injured her knee late in the third quarter. She screamed in pain while being treated by trainers from both teams and limped back to the locker room with 22 points.

She returned in the fourth to a huge ovation from the Hamady crowd, but was ineffective before fouling out in the final minute.

St. Ignace (25-1) will face University Liggett in Saturday’s championship game. The Knights (25-1) got 18 points from Haleigh Ristovski and 14 from Bre’nae Andrews in a 49-29 victory over Sand Creek (24-3) in the day’s first game.

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Petoskey senior forward Kerby Tamm was named to the Associated Press Class A AllState first-team.

Tamm, the Northmen’s leading scorer with 1,356 career points, and rebounder with 802, was an All State first-team selection last year in Class B.

All Big North Conference selection for all four years and twice was named league player of the year.

most impressed with how she’s been a great team player and she makes those around her better.”

Tamm, who also finished her stellar career with 328 assists and 137 steals, was a first-team

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Integrity rewarded Petoskey AD Hice to receive prestigious award

Commissioner Goodell e-mails all active NFL players

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Gary Hice, in his 27th year as the Petoskey High School athletic director, will receive the Athletic Director of the Year Award from the Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association at the organization’s annual meeting Monday in Traverse City.

“Who’s that?” Gary Hice is asked.

“Him,” Hice says, giving a sideways nod, saying it quietly not to draw attention to the conversation he’s having with the questioner. Moy, sitting on the couch, swaps stories and self-deprecating one-liners with other visitors.

“He doesn’t even know I have it up here,” Hice says.

It’s another fall/winter Friday night at Gary Hice’s house in Petoskey. He’s in his 27th year as the Petoskey Public Schools director of athletics. It’s about 11 p.m., the night of a home game, and Hice is surrounded by a group he calls “my boys”: His best friend, Dave Moyer, along with former Petoskey High School soccer coach Scott Batchelor, and longtime Northmen public-address announcer and good friend Roy Harvey.

All former athletes them-

selves, all of whom have dedicated their lives to education, and a crucial component to that education, athletics.

It’s Hice’s basement, but he’s hardly the center of attention.

He leaves that to others. They can do the talking. When Hice speaks, the room quiets, and everybody listens.

Moyer knows full well his photo was on the shelf, in a sacred spot in Hice’s basement, or, as they call it these days, his “man cave.”

It isn’t clear that Moyer has ever acknowledged it much beyond a knowing thanks between best friends.

Classin’ up the joint, huh Gar? Moyer probably said the first time he saw it.

The photo stands as a tribute to a buddy, a cherished memento from one friend to another.

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NEW YORK — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has sent a letter to all active players, outlining the league’s last proposal to the union during labor negotiations.

In Thursday’s e-mail, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, Goodell tells players that “each passing day puts our game and our shared economics further at risk.”

Goodell writes that the NFL Players Association “walked out of the federal mediator’s offices ... and filed a lawsuit.” He says owners “are prepared to resume those negotiations at any time.”

Talks between the sides broke off last Friday. The union dissolved, allowing players to file suit in federal court. Hours later, owners locked out the players, creating the NFL’s first work stoppage since 1987.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Tressel wants to sit out five games, too COLUMBUS, Ohio — Now that the NCAA has finalized its ruling that five Ohio State football players who took improper benefits are suspended for the first five games of the 2011 season, Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel says he wants the same punishment.

On Thursday night, the NCAA denied Ohio State’s appeal on behalf of the players, including star quarterback Terrelle Pryor, reasserting that they must sit out the first five games this fall for selling autographed memorabilia and receiving discounted tattoos.

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Leyland said the way Cabrera has been hitting the past week there is no limit to what he can accomplish.

Cabrera hit a monstrous homer that nearly cleared the left field berm at Joker Marchant Stadium, his second in two days and third of the spring, as the Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 4-3 Thursday.

Cabrera, who started slowly this spring, raised his average to .357. He also ran the bases aggressively, stretching a single into a double and said he wants to take that aggression into the regular season.

“There’s no question I am feeling good right now,” Cabrera said. “I am ready to work and trying to make sure I am ready for the season. I’m just here to work hard and be patient.”

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he big-screen TV carries a college basketball game.

The din of conversation wafts over the room, a finished basement at the Hice household on College View Drive in Petoskey. Sports memorabilia is prominent. Framed photos, a bookcase stocked with photos and, of course, sports books.

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The old set of clubs in the stiff dingy ol’ golfbag. Five strides away, the new bag, the modern clubs.

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Congratulations Petoskey Northmen Boys’ and Girls’ Basketball Teams!

Conference and District Champions

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Petoskey players gather for a team photo after winning the Class A district championship with a 63-54 victory over Traverse City Central. Team members are (from left) Quinn Ameel, Joe Robbins, J.T. Southwood, Ky Lewis, Jake Mullin, Will Cobb, Hunter Pulaski, Jared Goodrich, Sam Baumgartner, Erik Davenport, Austin Peters, Cory Starkey, Eli Gooding, Zak Lewis, Nick Manzer. The Northmen finished 22-2 and won their second consecutive Big North Conference championship, becoming the first team in the 14-year history of the league to complete back-to-back undefeated seasons. The only other Big North boys’ basketball teams to finish undefeated were the 2009-10 Northmen and the 1997-98 Northmen.

Members of the Petoskey High School girls’ basketball team gather for a photo after defeating Cadillac to complete an undefeated run through the Big North Conference. Team members are front (from left) Bernadette LeBlanc, Carrie Eggleston, Madison Hooley, Kerby Tamm, Carly Searles; back, Olivia Pizii, Katelyn Crittenden, Alyssa VanWerden, Megan Tompkins, Kelsey Ance, Liz Slater, coach Matt Tamm. The Northmen won the school’s first Big North championship since 1999. They shared the conference title with Traverse City West last season. The Northmen finished 20-3.

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HICE FROM B1

It’s an inside joke between Hice and Moyer, and you can bet Moyer is well aware of that the photo has been there for years.

He doesn’t even know I have it up here.

The photo is of Moy, but the thought behind it is all Hice.

There are myriad things that Hice does that most, even those directly affected, know little, if anything, about. As an administrator overseeing one of the largest high school athletic programs in Northern Michigan, Gary Hice silently takes more than his share of arrows and silently absorbs the blows, spends countless hours in the office and in the gym and on the phone.

Somebody has noticed. A lot of people have.

And on Monday, March 21, Gary Hice, 59, will receive the ultimate compliment a high school athletic director can receive, the Athletic Director of the Year award from the Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association at the group’s annual meeting in Traverse City.

Everybody in and around the Petoskey athletic program seems to feel it’s a longoverdue and worthy reward.

Everybody, that is, except Hice.

He doesn’t even know I have it up here.

Anybody who’s ever been involved with Petoskey athletics knows what they have in Hice.

Leadership traits

The coach coaches. The players play. The officials officiate. The spectators spectate.

The athletic director? Define that one.

Gary Hice is generally seen at one of the gym, keeping an eye on things.

If all goes smoothly, no one notices. If something goes wrong, all eyes turn to him.

Don’t notice him? That’s exactly the way he wants it. The late John Wooden, the most successful college basketball coach of all time, has famously been quoted as saying that he did his coaching in practice.

Same with Hice. The groundwork was laid long before the tipoff or kickoff on Friday night. The ground rules were set when the coach was hired: Don’t embarrass yourself, the players, the school, the community.

Hice took over at Petoskey in 1984. He inherited some of the most iconic coaching names in the school’s athletic history, such as Ray Arthur and Scott Bachelor and Don Dickmann. In his early days, Hice hired the likes of Dennis Starkey, Dave Farris, Mike Loper and Matt Tamm, each of whom turned in solid-tosensational careers as high school varsity coaches at Petoskey.

In recent years, Hice has been at the forefront as many of those legendary coaches have stepped away, yielding to younger names who, by all accounts, have fit the mold that Hice seeks.

The No. 1 trait? Integrity.

It’s said the organization takes on the personality of its leader.

Watching and learning

Gary Hice, the youngest of Winton and Betty Hice’s four children, was raised in southern Michigan. Winton worked as the director of the service department at several automobile dealerships from Charlotte to Marshall to Jackson.

For most of Gary’s formative years, the family lived near Jackson.

At 10, Gary was working as a caddy, making wage that today seem like a pittance.

“I don’t even remember how much we got paid,” he says. “To a kid, it seem like a decent amount. If you carried double, that was a big day.”

By the time Hice was a teenager, he landed a job trimming Christmas trees.

It was the mid 1960s, and he made $1 an hour. He rode his bike five miles daily to the appointed spot, jumped on a truck with other boys his age, and went to the tree farm.

“That’s 8 bucks a day, 40 dollars a week, in 1966,” Hice says, wide-eyed at the vast amount of money he brought down in those days. “You’d better show up on time or the truck was leaving without you.”

Meanwhile, Hice was getting his athletic fix playing ball with the neighborhood kids. The Hice family had settled down in the Jackson area, and they lived in the same house from the time he was 8 until he was about 16.

They had the biggest yard in the neighborhood.

“I just kind of forced everybody to come to my house,” he says.

Eventually, Hice landed jobs working alongside his dad at the car dealership. He did whatever was asked, working as a porter, cleaning, even changing oil. It’s not such a bad thing for a teenager to have a job in which he gets his hands dirty, or his back aches at the end of a shift.

That was part of Hice’s education. The other part was in watching his father, as the director of the service department, deal with customers unhappy about the fact that they would be facing repair bills for work done on their cars.

“He was a master,” Hice says. “He had so much patience. The most unkind words I ever heard him say was ‘I don’t build them, I just try to fix them.’”

A foundation was being laid for a young Gary Hice, and honesty and integrity were at the forefront.

The AD doesn’t blow whistle, doesn’t call the plays, doesn’t have anything to do with whether the home team wins or loses on a particular Friday night.

But he has everything to do with how things run, and in the world of Gary Hice, an angry, unhappy customer is to be dealt with. And it isn’t about what happens to you, but how you react to it.

A thorough understanding

By the time Gary Hice reached Parma County Western High School, he was among the very best athletes in his class. He was on the varsity baseball team as a freshman, the starting quarterback on the football team and starting point guard on the basketball team as a

sophomore.

College coaches were taking note.

But the family moved again, to Ann Arbor, and as a high school senior, Gary Hice found himself at the brandnew Huron High School.

He had gone from a Class B school where he knew everyone and everyone knew him, to a brand new environment.

Geographically, Ann Arbor was not far from Jackson, but it was a whole new and unfamiliar world for Gary Hice.

He didn’t go out for football at Huron and was cut from the basketball team.

A hard lesson for Hice.

Yet, just as working under his father at the car dealership had taught him about patience and class, so too did being left out at his new school.

“When I see kids become bitter at a coach or a program,” he says, “You think I don’t understand?”

That’s education. That’s growth. You don’t get it at the time. But, eventually, you do. Hice knows full well how important athletics are to a high school student-athlete, and what it means to have them taken away.

“The athletic experiences, both good and bad, have been a tremendous asset in my job,” he says. “I have a great perspective. I’ve been down a lot of these roads that these kids are going down.

“At the time, it’s a painful experience. Years from now, I hope they’ll use it in a positive way. There’s a lot of lessons to be learned.”

And at the end of the day, that’s what scholastic athletics if supposed to be about.

Winning games is great, the coveted athletic scholarship, for those who are truly good enough to land one, sensational.

But it’s the lessons you learn, either from playing or having it denied you, that are of utmost importance.

And Hice, as much as anyone involved in high school sports, has a keen understanding of that.

Getting an education

Gary Hice’s family was far from wealthy and his only avenue to a higher education was to pay for it himself.

He put himself through college, first for two years at Central Michigan University, the last two at Eastern Michigan. It’s at Central where he met his wife, Jeanne. They will celebrate 36 years of marriage this year and have two grown daughters, Lindsay and Lauren.

Facing his final semester as a senior in 1974 at Eastern, Hice was $400 short and his final tuition payment was due.

Jeanne’s father, the late Carlton Smith, a cattle farmer in Charlevoix, stepped up and loaned Gary the money.

“I don’t know about him, but there was no doubt I was going to pay it off,” Hice says.

“I was just grateful that I could finish (school) on time.

I worried that if it didn’t happen then, it might not ever happen.”

It did, and Hice graduated with a degree in parks and recreation management from Eastern Michigan in 1974.

“It was very important,” Hice says. “I felt like I had some something. ... I remem-

ber feeling pretty good about getting that degree.”

But, there was still the matter of the debt he owed to his future father-in-law. To pay it off, he worked for $50 a week, plus room and board, on Smith’s cattle farm in Charlevoix.

Working on a farm is among the most difficult physical labor one can imagine. Gary Hice embraced it, and when he was done, he had a college degree, and he was debt-free.

And Jeanne, who would later become his wife, saw the integrity in that. Down the road, a lot of other people would see the same thing.

Getting started

Hice’s first foray into education was as a study-hall monitor at Charlevoix High School in 1975. It was $5 an hour, six hours a day.

He was also asked to coach cross country at the school and held the 1975 Rayders, which included a freshman Jeff Drenth and a junior named Walt Drenth. The late Jeff Drenth would go on to become one of the best distance runners in the country, and Walt Drenth is now the cross country coach at Michigan State. Hice has a team picture of that group in his basement as well.

Hice, a football-basketballbaseball player growing up, knew nothing about cross country. But he learned that he loved being around high school kids. He also jumped at the chance to help Moyer, then the Charlevoix varsity boys’ basketball coach, with the program. The two have been best friends since.

Hice eventually made his way to Petoskey High School where he taught and coached and he worked for the Charlevoix-Emmet Department of Social Services developing after-school and weekend programs for at-risk youth.

In 1979, he was laid off from his teaching job at Petoskey and became the parks and recreation director at Petoskey from 1979-84 before returning to the school as its athletic director, replacing the retiring Bud Niedhamer.

“I always looked at that job — that it was a job of prestige, to be an athletic director,” says Hice, who was just 32 years old when he took the job and would later earn the MHSAA Al Bush Award in 2000 and the MIAAA’s George Lovich Award in 2008. “I thought it was pretty important, especially at Petoskey.”

He has also overseen myriad changes and improvements in the school’s athletic program, from the addition of varsity sports, to the development of the Athletic Hall of Fame, to the construction of the gym and wrestling room at the high school.

Hice earned his master’s degree in seondary educational administration from Central Michigan in 1989, attending night and weekend classes at North Central Michigan College, in Gaylord, and in Mount Pleasant.

Attention to detail

Hice’s attention to detail has served him well in the 27 years at the post.

“If you’re not a detail person, you’re not going to last long in this job,” he says.

TAMM FROM B1 Over her four year career, the Northmen went 76-15 and claimed two district titles, one in Class A and the other in Class B. Tamm was selected to the Class B AllState first-team last season.

For her career, Tamm averaged 14.9 points, 8.8 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.5 steals and shot 80.2 percent (198-of-247) from the free throw line. Her career 3-point percentage was 41.9 percent.

Tamm will play next season at Central Michigan University.

Midland Dow’s Becca Mills has carried her team to new heights throughout her fouryear varsity career. And after capping that career with a superb senior season, Mills added the most prestigious individual award yet to her already cramped risumi: Associated Press Class A Player of the Year for girls’ basketball.

Mills, a 6-foot-3 center, averaged 22 points, 13 rebounds, three steals, two blocks and two assists per game in leading Dow to a 19-1 record and a No. 3 ranking — the Chargers’ highest-ever state ranking.

“It’s exciting,” Dow coach Bob Wellman said of the

award. “Becca’s someone who’s worked hard to get where she’s at, and it’s nice to see that hard work pay off for her. She set goals to become one of the better players — if not the best player — in the state, and she’s done some great things.”

A Michigan Miss Basketball finalist, Mills finished her career as Dow’s all-time leader in both scoring with 1,524 points and rebounding with 875 boards.

“Becca always could use her size, but she has really developed a better post game and perimeter game, too,” said Wellman. “She has become a triple-threat — she’s able to score inside, score outside and score off the dribble.

Every part of her game got better (throughout her prep career), and her passing ability is unbelievable for a 6-3 kid.”

Mills, who will play at Michigan State, shot nearly 60 percent from the floor and just over 70 percent from the foul line this season. She is a four-time All-Saginaw Valley League first team honoree and a three-time All-State first team selection.

Class A All-State CLASS A ALL-STATE FIRST TEAM Hoffman, Okemos; Mandy Johnson, Holt Asia Boyd, Detroit Renaissance, 6-0, Sr. Coach: Rob Smith, East Lansing Crystal Bradford, Inkster, 6-1, Sr. ——— Kamilah Carter, Ann Arbor Pioneer, 5-4, HONORABLE MENTION (nominees reSr. ceiving one or no votes from the 10-memAlexis Harris, D etroit Renaissanc e, 6-1, ber panel): Sr. Kelcy B arott, Ann Arbor Hur on; DaDeborah Hoekstr a, East Lansing , 5-10, monica Bufor d, B enton Harbor; Kandac e Sr. Crittendon, Byron Center; Emily Firchau, Becca Mills , Midland D ow, 6-3, Sr . Monroe; Ashley F linn, Romeo; Jessica (Player of the Year) Green, B elleville; Allie Ha vers, Ma ttawan; Kerby Tamm, Petoskey, 5-10, Sr. Emerald Joiner, S aginaw Ar thur Hill; A driDaJourie Turner, Warren Fitzgerald, 5-9, ana Jor dan, P ort Hur on; Ale x La w, Gr and Sr. Haven; Jade L edy, Marquette; Er yn Maday, Shar’Rae Davis, Grand Haven, 5-8, Jr. Utica; Alyssa McBride , Ma ttawan; Victoria Caprice Dennis, Detroit Pershing, 5-9, Jr. Milton, Lansing Waverly; Jordyn Nurenberg, Alexis Miller, Caledonia, 5-7, Jr. Coach of the Year: Ka tie K owalczyk- St. Johns; E lena P opkey, Warren C ousino; Aisha Rodney, Grosse Pointe South; Deiona Fulmer, Grand Haven Rogers, Grand Rapids Union; Kari Schmidt, ——— SPECIAL MENTION (nominees r eceiv- Canton; Nichole Sly, Niles; Devin Talley, Ann ing two or more votes from the 10-member Arbor Hur on; Emily Wendling, F lushing; Ashley Wilson, Portage Northern panel): Coach: Peggy Carr, Inkster Shareta Br own, Gr and Blanc; Hannah “You don’t have those types of players come around very often. And when you get them, it’s a pleasure,” said Wellman.

“It’s been an honor to coach Becca these last four years, and I’m looking forward to watching her continue to grow at Michigan State.”

Joining Tamm and Mills on the Class A All-State first

team are Grand Haven’s Shar’Rae Davis, East Lansing’s Deborah Hoekstra, Caledonia’s Alexis Miller, Detroit Renaissance’s Asia Boyd and Alexis Harris, Inkster’s Crystal Bradford, Detroit Pershing’s Caprice Dennis, Warren Fitzgerald’s DaJourie Turner and Ann Arbor Pioneer’s Kamilah Carter.

“When referees don’t show up, people notice. When teams don’t show up, people notice.

A lot of it is detail.”

Dealing with people, as he learned by his father’s example, was crucial. The attention to detail? That was there from day one.

He can name Heisman Trophy and U.S. Open winners at the drop of a hat, and he can get about nine-out-10 if you name a year and ask him who won the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, or the Super Bowl, in said year.

“My boys call me Rainman,” he says.

There is much more to the job than simply showing up on game night. Hice is responsible for interviewing and hiring coaches — both head and assistant — from the varsity level on down to the middle school, ensuring that buses are scheduled for road trips and that they make it on time, and he’s responsible for budgeting.

Fund-raising has become a major concern over the years as school funding shrinks yet athletic programs expand.

He says a major component in his job and that of his coaches, is the things most people never notice.

“It’s not about game days and practices,” he says.

“There’s so much more involved. It’s way beyond the X’s and O’s. ... There are stresses and pressures, and responsibilities.”

Parental involvement, and the pressure to win, have moved to the forefront in high school athletic programs.

“It’s the too-much, too-soon syndrome,” he says. “Coaches are in an arms race to build a program and that starts at the younger levels.”

The fallout is that coaches, usually parents, are involved at the younger levels and it has expanded from recreation programs run by the city, to travel teams and AAU programs.

“I’m a part of the problem,” Hice says. “We all are. You’re asking people to put in more time, and you specialize (in one sport), which I don’t approve of.”

And at the end of the day, Hice is the one person who takes the criticism on the whole when things don’t match some people’s expectations.

“I like these people,” he says of his coaches. “They’re good people. They all have integrity, which is the most important thing, as far as I’m concerned.”

That integrity is a two-way street, and it’s a place Hice has arrived at after having lived through the highs and lows of it himself. He knows full well what it takes to make the strides necessary to improve oneself, is what it’s all about.

“There’s nothing more interesting to me than a high school student,” he says.

“They are a hoot. I will know when it’s time to get out when I no longer get a joy from being around high school students — when I can’t relate to them anymore, or, worse, when they can’t relate to me anymore. It won’t be anytime soon, unless they fire me.

“I’m too poor to quit, too stupid to do anything else.”

SEMIS FROM B1

Lexie Robak hit three key 3-pointers in the second half to help Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes beat Central Lake in a Class D semifinal Thursday night.

The defending champions had to overcome 23 points and 11 rebounds from Jasmine Hinds, who was named Miss Basketball on Monday.

Central Lake (26-1) led for much of the low-scoring game, but Robak hit a pair of 3-pointers late in the third quarter and one early in the fourth to put Our Lady (21-5) ahead for good.

Hinds fouled out with 6:10 left, ruining Central Lake’s last chance at the upset.

The Lakers will face Bark River-Harris (22-4) in Saturday’s championship game.

The Broncos got 20 points from Megan Mackowiak in a 66-44 win over Morenci.

Prep basketball

BOYS State quarterfinal pairings All games 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 22 Class A Hudsonville vs. Kalamazoo Central a t Lansing Eastern Southfield vs. East Detroit at Univ. of D etroit Mercy Orchard Lake St. Mary’s vs. Bay City Western a t Davison Detroit Southeastern vs. Romulus at Univ. of D etroit Mercy Class B Flint Powers vs. Detroit Country Day a t Ferndale Dearborn Divine Child vs. Lansing Sexton a t Marshall East Grand Rapids vs. Dowagiac a t Middleville Cadillac vs. Muskegon Heights at Houghton Lak e Class C Saginaw Buena Vista vs. Detroit Consortium a t West Bloomfield Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central vs.

S choolcraft at Battle Creek Central Muskegon Western Michigan Christian vs.

F lint Beecher at Mount Pleasant Negaunee vs. McBain at Petoskey Class D Adrian Lenawee Christian vs. Wyoming Tri-unity Christian at Jackson Eben Junction Superior Central vs.

C edarville at Escanaba Manistee Catholic Central vs. Fulton at Hope C ollege Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary vs.

D etroit Westside Christian at Waterford K ettering GIRLS STATE SEMIFINALS/FINALS At Breslin Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing Semifinals Thursday, March 17 Class C Grosse P ointe Woods Univ ersity Liggett 49, Sand Creek 29 St. Ignace 63, Flint Hamady 55 Class D Bark River-Harris 66, Morenci 44 Waterford Our Lady 52, Central Lake 41 Friday, March 18 Class A Detroit Renaissance (21-3) vs. Grand Haven (26-0), 1 p .m.

Canton (24-2) vs. Inkster (23-2), 2:50 p.m.

Class B Goodrich (24-1) vs. Dearborn Divine Child (21-5), 6 p .m.

Three Rivers (26-0) vs. Hemlock (22-3), 7:50 p .m.

Finals Saturday, March 19 Class A: Noon Class B: 6 p.m.

Class C: Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett (25-1) vs. St. Ignace (25-1), 4 p.m.

Class D: B ark R iver-Harris (22-4) vs .

Waterford Our Lady (21-5), 10 a.m.

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TV schedule FRIDAY AUTO RACING Noon SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup 1:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Nationwide Series 3:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup 5 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Nationwide Series BOXING 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Welterweights, Demetrius Hopkins (30-1-1) vs. Brad Solomon (16-0-0), at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. COLLEGE BASKETBALL Noon CBS — Oakland vs. Texas 12:30 p.m. TRUTV — Tennessee vs. Michigan 1:30 p.m. TBS — Akron vs. Notre Dame 2 p.m. TNT — Villanova at George Mason 2:45 p.m. CBS — Memphis vs. Arizona 3:10 p.m. TRUTV — Hampton vs. Duke 4:10 p.m. TBS — Florida St. vs. Texas A&M 4:40 p.m. TNT — UT-San Antonio at Ohio St. 6:50 p.m. TBS — Boston University vs. Kansas 7:15 p.m. CBS — Long Island vs. North Carolina 7:20 p.m. TNT — St. Peter’s vs. Purdue 7:27 p.m. TRUTV — Marquette vs. Xavier 9:20 p.m. TBS — Illinois vs. UNLV 9:45 p.m. CBS — Georgia vs. Washington 9:50 p.m. TNT — TBA at Georgetown 10 p.m. TRUTV — Indiana St. vs. Syracuse EXTREME SPORTS Noon ESPN2 — Winter X Games, tape 1 p.m. ESPN2 — Winter X Games, tape 3 p.m. ESPN2 — Winter X Games, tape 8 p.m. ESPN — Winter X Games, tape GOLF 9:30 a.m. GOLF — European PGA Tour, Sicilian Open 3 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour, Transitions Championship 6:30 p.m. GOLF — LPGA Founders Cup NBA 7:30 p.m. FSD — New York at Detroit TENNIS 4 p.m. ESPN2 — ATP/WTA Tour, BNP Paribas Open, women’s semifinal, at Indian Wells, Calif.

11 p.m. ESPN2 — ATP/WTA Tour, BNP Paribas Open, women’s semifinal, at Indian Wells, Calif.

SATURDAY AUTO RACING 9:30 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Nationwide Series 10:30 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup Noon SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, “Happy Hour Series,” 2 p.m. ESPN — NASCAR, Nationwide Series BASEBALL 4 p.m. WGN — Chicago Cubs vs. San Diego COLLEGE BASKETBALL 11 a.m. ESPN — NIT, second round, teams and site TBD Noon CBS — NCAA Division I tournament, third round, quadrupleheader, teams TBD, at Washington; Tampa, Fla.; Denver; or Tucson, Ariz.

6 p.m. TNT — NCAA Division I tournament, third round, doubleheader, teams TBD, at Washington; Tampa, Fla.; Denver; or Tucson, Ariz.

7 p.m. TBS — NCAA Division I tournament, third round, doubleheader, teams TBD, at Washington; Tampa, Fla.; Denver; or Tucson, Ariz.

COLLEGE WRESTLING 7:30 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Division IWrestling Championships GOLF 9 a.m. GOLF — European PGA Tour, Sicilian Open 1 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour, Transitions Championship 3 p.m. NBC — PGA Tour, Transitions Championship 6:30 p.m. GOLF — LPGA Founders Cup GIRLS’ PREP BASKETBALL 10 a.m. FSD — Class D State Final Noon FSD — Class A State Final 4 p.m. FSD — Class C State Final 6 p.m. FSD — Class B State Final NHL 8 p.m. FSD — Detroit at Nashville SOCCER 8:30 a.m. ESPN2 — English Premier League, Tottenham vs. West Ham United, at London TENNIS 2 p.m. ABC — ATP/WTA Tour, BNP Paribas Open WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 11 a.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Division I tournament, first round, teams and site TBD 1:30 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Division I tournament, first round, teams and site TBD 4 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Division I tournament, first round, teams and site TBD 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Division I tournament, first round, teams and site TBD

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6 p.m. TNT — NCAA Division I tournament, third round, doubleheader, teams TBD, at Charlotte, N.C.; Cleveland; Chicago; or Tulsa, Okla.

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All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Philadelphia 70 43 19 8 94 225 Pittsburgh 71 41 22 8 90 206 N.Y. Rangers 71 37 30 4 78 204 New Jersey 70 33 33 4 70 151 N.Y. Islanders 71 27 33 11 65 197 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Boston 70 39 21 10 88 211 Montreal 71 39 25 7 85 189 Buffalo 70 34 28 8 76 203 Toronto 72 31 31 10 72 187 Ottawa 71 26 36 9 61 161 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Washington 72 41 21 10 92 195 Tampa Bay 71 39 22 10 88 212 Carolina 71 32 29 10 74 198 Atlanta 71 30 29 12 72 200 Florida 71 29 33 9 67 179 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Detroit 71 43 20 8 94 232 Chicago 71 38 25 8 84 232 Nashville 71 36 25 10 82 183 Columbus 70 32 28 10 74 190 St. Louis 71 32 30 9 73 198 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF y-Vancouver 72 47 16 9 103 237 Calgary 73 37 27 9 83 222 Minnesota 70 35 28 7 77 178 Colorado 70 26 36 8 60 195 Edmonton 71 23 39 9 55 173 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF San Jose 71 40 23 8 88 203 Phoenix 72 38 23 11 87 209 Los Angeles 71 40 26 5 85 196 Dallas 71 38 25 8 84 201 Anaheim 70 38 27 5 81 197

GA 188 172 174 179 227 GA 170 178 202 223 221 GA 176 214 212 230 194 GA 201 201 168 211 209 GA 169 209 188 248 234 GA 186 204 174 199 203

NOTE: Two poin ts for a win, one poin t for overtime loss. y-clinched division Thursday’s Games Detroit 2, Columbus 0 Atlanta 4, Philadelphia 3, SO Montreal 3, Tampa Bay 2, SO Ottawa 3, New Jersey 1 Florida 4, Toronto 0 Nashville 4, Boston 3, OT Dallas 5, Chicago 0 Calgary 5, Colorado 2 Phoenix 3, Edmonton 1 St. Louis 4, Los Angeles 0 Minnesota at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Washington at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Montreal at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Detroit at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Columbus at Minnesota, 2 p.m.

Atlanta at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Florida, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Colorado at Edmonton, 10 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

St. Louis at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

NBA All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L P ct x-Boston 48 18 .727 New York 35 32 .522 Philadelphia 35 33 .515 New Jersey 22 44 .333 Toronto 18 49 .269 Southeast Division W L P ct x-Miami 46 22 .676 x-Orlando 43 26 .623 Atlanta 39 29 .574 Charlotte 28 39 .418 Washington 16 50 .242 Central Division W L P ct y-Chicago 49 18 .731 Indiana 29 39 .426 Milwaukee 26 41 .388 Detroit 24 44 .353 Cleveland 13 54 .194 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L P ct x-San Antonio 54 13 .806 Dallas 48 20 .706 New Orleans 40 30 .571 Memphis 37 32 .536 Houston 35 34 .507 Northwest Division W L P ct Oklahoma City 44 23 .657 Denver 41 27 .603 Portland 39 29 .574 Utah 36 33 .522 Minnesota 17 52 .246 Pacific Division W L P ct L.A. Lakers 48 20 .706 Phoenix 33 33 .500 Golden State 30 38 .441 L.A. Clippers 26 43 .377 Sacramento 16 50 .242

GB — 13 1/2 14 26 30 1/2 GB — 3 1/2 7 17 1/2 29 GB — 20 1/2 23 25 1/2 36 GB — 6 1/2 15 1/2 18 20 GB — 3 1/2 5 1/2 9 28 GB — 14 18 22 1/2 31

x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Games Chicago 84, New Jersey 73 New York 120, Memphis 99 Portland 111, Cleveland 70 Friday’s Games New York at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Denver at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Washington at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Miami at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Boston at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

New Jersey at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.

Golden State at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Cleveland at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 p.m.

Denver at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

Indiana at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Boston at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Charlotte at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Portland, 10 p.m.

NBA SCORING LEADERS G FG FT PTS A VG Durant, OKC 63 584 483 1768 28.1 Stoudemire, NYK 66 653 413 1729 26.2 James, MIA 66 609 422 1718 26.0 Wade, MIA 64 586 408 1633 25.5 Anthony, NYK 63 556 422 1597 25.3 Bryant, LAL 68 607 384 1689 24.8 Ellis, GOL 68 635 301 1683 24.8

NCAA MEN’S TOURNAMENT All Times EDT EAST REGIONAL Second Round Thursday, March 17 At St. Pete Times Forum Tampa, Fla. West Virginia 84, Clemson 76 Kentucky 59, Princeton 57 Friday, March 18 At Time Warner Cable Arena Charlotte, N.C. North C arolina (26-7) vs . Long Island University (27-5), 7:15 p.m.

Washington (23-10) vs. Georgia (21-11), 30 minutes following At Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland George Mason (26-6) vs . Villanova (21-11), 2:10 p.m.

Ohio Sta te (32-2) vs . Texas-San An tonio (20-13), 30 minutes following Xavier (24-7) vs. Marquette (20-14), 7:27 p.m.

Syracuse (26-7) vs . Indiana Sta te (20-13), 30 minutes following Third Round Saturday, March 19 At St. Pete Times Forum Tampa, Fla. West Virginia (21-11) vs. Kentucky (26-8) Sunday, March 20 At Time Warner Cable Arena Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina-Long Island Univ ersity winner vs. Washington-Georgia winner At Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland Ohio Sta te-Texas-San An tonio winner vs .

George Mason-Villanova winner Syracuse-Indiana Sta te winner vs . Xa vierMarquette winner SOUTHEAST REGIONAL Second Round Thursday, March 17 At The Verizon Center Washington Butler 60, Old D ominion 58 Pittsburgh 74, UNC Asheville 51 At St. Pete Times Forum Tampa, Fla. Florida 79, UC S anta Barbara 51 UCLA 78, Michigan State 76 At The Pepsi Center Denver BYU 74, Wofford 66 Gonzaga 86, St. John’s 71 At The McKale Center Tucson, Ariz.

Wisconsin 72, Belmont 58 Kansas State 73, Utah State 68 Third Round Saturday, March 19 At The Verizon Center Washington Pittsburgh (28-5) vs. Butler (24-9) At St. Pete Times Forum Tampa, Fla. Florida (27-7) vs. UCLA (23-10) At The Pepsi Center Denver BYU (31-4) vs. Gonzaga (25-9) At The McKale Center Tucson, Ariz.

Kansas State (23-10) vs. Wisconsin (24-8) SOUTHWEST REGIONAL Second Round Thursday, March 17 At The Pepsi Center Denver Morehead State 62, Louisville 61 Richmond 69, Vanderbilt 66 Friday, March 18 At The United Center Chicago Notre Dame (26-6) vs . Akron (23-12), 1:40, p.m.

Texas A&M (24-8) vs . Florida State (21-10), 30 minutes following Purdue (25-7) vs . St . P eter’s (20-13), 7:20 p.m.

Georgetown (21-10) vs . Virginia Commonwealth (24-11), 30 minutes following At The BOK Center Tulsa, Okla.

Kansas (32-2) vs. Boston University (21-13), 6:50 p.m.

UNLV (24-8) vs. Illinois (19-13), 30 minut es following Third Round Saturday, March 19 At The Pepsi Center Denver Morehead State (25-9) vs. Richmond (28-7) Sunday, March 20 At The United Center Chicago Notre Dame -Akron winner vs . Texas A&MFlorida State winner Purdue-St. Peter’s winner vs . GeorgetownSouthern Cal-Virginia Commonwealth winner At The BOK Center Tulsa, Okla.

Kansas-Boston University winner vs . UNLVIllinois winner WEST REGIONAL Second Round Thursday, March 17 At The McKale Center Tucson, Ariz.

Temple 66, Penn State 64 San Diego State 68, Northern Colorado 50 At The Verizon Center Washington Connecticut 81, Bucknell 52 Cincinnati 78, Missouri 63 Friday, March 18 At The BOK Center Tulsa, Okla.

Texas (27-7) vs . Oakland , Mich. (25-9), 12:15 p.m.

Arizona (27-7) vs. Memphis (25-9), 30 minutes following At Time Warner Cable Arena Charlotte, N.C. Michigan (20-13) vs . Tennessee (19-14), 12:40 p.m.

Duke (30-4) vs . Hampt on (24-8), 30 minutes following Third Round Saturday, March 19 At The Verizon Center Washington Connecticut (27-9) vs. Cincinnati (26-8) At The McKale Center Tucson, Ariz.

San Diego State (33-2) vs. Temple (26-7) Sunday, March 20 At Time Warner Cable Arena Charlotte, N.C. Duke-Hampton winner vs . Michigan- Tennessee winner At The BOK Center Tulsa, Okla.

Texas-Oakland, Mich. winner vs . Ariz onaMemphis winner

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

UCLA holds off Michigan State TA M PA , F l a . ( A P ) — UCLA kept clanking free throws, Michig an State kept draining 3-pointers. It turned a potential rout into a nailbiter.

In the end, the Bruins escaped. Barely.

Tyler Honeycutt and Malcolm Lee scored 16 points apiece and seventh-seeded UCLA held off a late comeback by the 10th-seeded Spartans 78-76 in the Southeast regional of the NCAA tournament.

The Bruins (23-10) won despite missing 17 free throws, nine of them in the final 3:40 while the Spartans were making a barrage of 3-pointers to get back into the game. They advanced to a third-round matchup against No. 2 seed Florida, which beat 15th-seeded UC Santa Barbara 79-51.

“This is not the first time that we’ve had a lead evaporate,” UCLA coach Ben Howland said. “We’re now 21-0, though, whenever we get a 10-point lead or more, and that’s been good. You know, we’ve played a lot of tight games, and somehow we’ve found a way to win more than we’ve lost, and that’s been big for us.”

UCLA led 42-24 at the half and by as many as 23 in the second half before nearly letting the game slip away against a team hoping to make it to a third consecutive Final Four. The Bruins were 30 of 47 from the foul line and only made two field goals over the final eight minutes.

D r ay m o n d G r e e n l e d Michigan State (19-15) with 23 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists — just the seventh official triple-double in NCAA tournament history. Durrell Summers added 15 and Spartans star Kalin Lucas finished with 11 after going the first 32 minutes without scoring.

“Any time you win in this tournament it’s a big deal,” Howland said after improving to 15-5 in six NCAA tour nament appearances with UCLA. He’s 19-8 overall.

“Beating Michigan State, I mean, this is a team that went to back-to-back Final Fours the last two years.

They are a tournament tested, very hard-nosed tough g roup,” Howland added.

“It’s a huge win for us, and I’m sure it’s a confidence booster for our players.”

L u c a s, ave r a g i n g 2 0 . 9 over his previous 14 games, missed his first eight shots before finally scoring on a steal and layup with 7:45 remaining. Unfortunately

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Michigan State’s Draymond Green (23) gets a shot off around the arms of UCLA’s Reeves Nelson during the second half of a Southeast Regional second-round NCAA tournament game Thursday in Tampa, Fla.

for Michigan State that first basket didn’t come until after Honeycutt and Joshua Smith keyed a 15-2 burst that had rebuilt UCLA’s lead to 23 after the Spartans pulled within 10 early in the second half.

But the g ame was f ar from over.

Green and Lucas made 3-pointers to start a gameending 35-14 run. Freshman Keith Appling made three treys during the surge, the final one pulling the Spartans within 77-76 with 4.4 seconds remaining.

Lee went the foul line for UCLA, sinking one of two free throws, leaving Michigan State with one more chance and 4.4 seconds left. That opportunity disappeared when Lucas was called for traveling while trying to dribble through a triple team.

“I’m crushed and disappointed because we just got off to such a poor start, and yet I’m so proud of these guys,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said.

“They’ve been knocked down so many times this year that I don’t think I’ve ever had a team that’s gone through as much, and yet to battle back and almost put themselves at a chance to win was incredible. ... I give UCLA a lot of credit. They just seemed to have more energy than us early. We found a way to bounce back ... and we just fell a little short.”

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HOROSCOPES For Monday, March 21 HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Consider commitment, in love or at work. Even if you resist it, you’re secretly committed to results. You may find bliss in making conscious promises. This spring is full of professional possibilities.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE LYNN JOHNSON

FRANK & ERNEST BOB THAVES

GARFIELD JIM DAVIS

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — There’s a double rainbow after the storm. From this perspective, you can appreciate the beauty of those seemingly insurmountable obstacles earlier.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — Brilliant ideas abound, and the pace is quick. You delight in beauty, and it’s springing forth like new clover.

Play with it, and capture those ideas with a brush stroke.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — Your natural talents and imagination could persuade you to arrogance.

Let your light-hearted affection triumph over nerves and give a stirring performance.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — Your easygoing and vibrant enthusiasm creates charisma that attracts.

Don’t give in to stage fright. Let your imagination feed your original talent.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 9 — You’ve put together something of great originality and talent, and imagination feeds your creative need. Things happen fast, so speed up the dance.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Do unto others, as you’d have them do to you. Push your own artistic boundaries by seeking hidden beauty in the mundane.

Create for no good reason.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 7 — You want to play and have a burning need to create.

Don’t stress on the details. Let your talent and appreciation for beauty imagine a fresh new direction. Write it down.

Capricorn (Dec. 22Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — There’s plenty of action at home, and maybe even some chaos. Try something new today, out of the familiar routine.

You may discover a new career skill.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — You’re strongly grounded in a creative pursuit that calls to you. Details may hold anxiety, which can be dispelled with imagination and independent action.

Think outside the box.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — Take time to lie down and look at clouds. Don’t let other people’s stress get to you.

A cloud weighs as much as a whale, yet it floats above effortlessly.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Today is a 7 — Go somewhere fun with the kids after work: the park, a movie ... have an adventure of some kind. Let your silly side out. Create something together.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — It’s time to go, even if it’s just a trip outside to breathe in the fresh air and appreciate beauty. Or you may want to travel far, by plane or through the pages of a novel.

SUDOKU To solve a Sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box.

ZITS JIM BORGMAN OR JERRY SCOTT

BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT

BONUS PUZZLE

DOG EAT DOUG BRIAN ANDERSON

See Sudoku solutions, next page.

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Sudoku solutions for puzzles on previous page.

Watches & Clocks If you see news happening or have a news tip or story idea, call Jeremy McBain, editor at (231) 439-9316, or e-mail him at jmcbain@petoskeynews.com

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"The Birdcage"

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('99) Samuel L. Jackson, Saffron Burrows.

Criminal Minds "Memoriam" Criminal Minds "Masterpiece" Criminal Minds Criminal Minds "Demonology" Criminal Minds "Omnivore" Breakout Kings "Collected" Deadliest Towns "Killer Tigers" I Shouldn't Be Alive "Killer Crevasse" Fatal Attractions Fatal Attractions Confessions "Drowning in Cats" Fatal Attractions BRAVO (3:30) "The Green Mile"

('99) Tom Hanks.

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DISNEY Shake It Up Wizards Life on Deck FishHooks Take Two /(:05)Wizards (:05)Life on Deck Life on Deck Life on Deck Life on Deck DIY Disaster House DO-IT-YOURSELF 10 Killer Projects Reno Realities Sweat Equity Ask-Old House Reno Realities Reno Realities Reno Realities Dream House Dream House Dream House Reno Realities E! Kourtney & KhloĂŠ Kourtney & KhloĂŠ E! News ENTERTAINMENT TV Sex and the City Sex and the City After Lately After Lately The Soup Fashion Police Chelsea Lately E! News ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS ESPN SportsCenter X Games Snowboard Slopestyle Winter X Games Snowboard Superpipe -- Tignes, France Baseball Tonight SportsCenter ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS 2 ESPN2 NASCAR Live Basketball Live NFL Live Boxing Classics 30 for 30 "Muhammad and Larry" Boxing Friday Night Fights -- Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Live Tennis BNP Paribas Open WTA Live FAM (3:30) "Harry Potter & the Sorce... "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

(2002,Family) Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe.

FAMILY CHANNEL The 700 Club FIT Diagnosis X "Shattered" FIT TV Diagnosis X "Family Secrets" Mystery ER "Burning Love" Mystery ER Mystery ER "Rash Decision" Mystery ER "Burning Love" FOOD French Food FOOD NETWORK Chef at Home Eat, Shrink Glutton Punish Iron Chef America "Flay vs. Bull" Throwdown Throwdown Diners, Drive-Ins Diners, Drive-Ins Rest Makeover "Tresca Trattoria" FNC News FOX NEWS CHANNEL FOX Report The O'Reilly Factor Hannity On the Record The O'Reilly Factor FSD UEFA Magazine Pistons in Focus PistonsLive Live Basketball New York Knicks vs. Detroit Pistons NBA -- Detroit, Mich. Live FOX SPORTS DETROIT Pistons Post Live The Final Score BMX MegaRamp ASA Triples FX 2 1/2 Men FX 2 1/2 Men 2 1/2 Men 2 1/2 Men "The Rocker"

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('08) Christina Applegate, Rainn Wilson.

GAME SHOW NETWORK GAME Newlywed Game Baggage 1 vs. 100 Deal or No Deal Family Feud Family Feud Newlywed Game Baggage 1 vs. 100 Lingo Deal or No Deal HALL Little House on the Prairie HALLMARK Little House Prairie "Mortal Mission" Touched By An Angel "Last Call" Touched By An Angel Touched By An Angel "At Risk" Golden Girls Golden Girls HGTV Income Property Designed to Sell House Hunters HOME & GARDEN House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters HIST Modern Marvels "Distilleries" HISTORY CHANNEL Modern Marvels "Distilleries 2" Modern Marvels "Driver's Seat" Pawn Stars Pawn Stars American Pickers "Invisible Pump" Meltzer's Decoded "D.B. Cooper" LIFE Intervention "Dillon" LIFETIME Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Reba Reba Reba Reba Reba Reba Met Your Mother Met Your Mother MSNBC News MSNBC Hardball With Chris Matthews The Last Word The Rachel Maddow Show Lockup "Raw: Nothing But Time" Lockup "Raw: Ain't No Hotel" MTV That '70s Show That '70s Show The Real World: Las Vegas MUSIC TV RJ Berger Jersey Shore "A House Divided" Silent Library Skins "Chris" Skins "Cadie" NG Beast Hunter "Man Ape of Sumatra" Hard Time "Against the Wall" NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Fish Warrior "Living Dinosaur" Beast Hunter Beast Hunter Fish Warrior "Living Dinosaur" NICK SpongeBob NICKELODEON iCarly House of Anubis iCarly Victorious Big Time Rush The Nanny "Ghostbusters"

(1984,Comedy) Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray.

OXY All About Aubrey "Fans and Foes" OXYGEN "Eight Below"

(2006,Adventure) Bruce Greenwood, Jason Biggs, Paul Walker.

"Eight Below"

(2006,Adventure) Bruce Greenwood, Jason Biggs, Paul Walker.

INDEPENDENT TV SCIENCE FICTION SOAPNET SPEED CHANNEL SPIKE TV SUPER STATION TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES LEARNING CHANNEL THE MOVIE CHANNEL TURNER NETWORK TV CARTOON NETWORK TRAVEL TV LAND USA NETWORK VIDEO HITS VERSUS WOMEN' S E NTERTAINMENT WGN ENCORE HOME BOX OFFICE HOME BOX OFFICE 2 CINEMAX SHOWTIME STARZ!

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('06,Hor) Christina Vidal, Rachel Taylor, Glen Jacobs.

SOAP Days of Our Lives The Young and the Restless SPEED The 10

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Trackside At "Bristol" 1000 Ways to Die (:35)Ways to Die TBS (4:00)Basket. Live (:45)Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live TCM Movie "Hitting a New High" ('38) Jack Oakie, Lily Pons.

SPIKE (:55)Gangland "Basic Training"

Without a Trace cont'd next Without a Trace "Nickel and Dimed" Criminal Minds "Open Season" Criminal Minds "Legacy" WWE Smackdown!

Merlin "Queen of Hearts" Being Human All My Children One Life to Live General Hospital Days of Our Lives Speed Center Auto Racing Food City 500 NASCAR -- Bristol, Tenn.

Racing Scotts Turf Builder 300 NASCAR Trackside At "Bristol" (:10)Ways to Die (:50)Ways to Die (:25)1000 Ways to Die 1000 Ways to Die "Cure for the Common Death" (:35)CSI:Crime (:15)Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live "Monte Walsh"

('70) Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance, Lee Marvin.

"Viva Maria!"

('65) Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Bardot.

TLC

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Cake Boss Cake Boss DC Cupcakes DC Cupcakes Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress DC Cupcakes DC Cupcakes Movie "Good Time Max"

('08) Matt Bell, Ruth Barrie. "Deuces Wild"

('02) Brad Renfro, Stephen Dorff. (:40) "The Big Hit"

('98) Mark Wahlberg.

TNT (4:30)Basket. Division I Live (:15)Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live (:45)Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live TOON Johnny Test RegularShow Young Justice Ben 10 Generator Rex Star Wars: Clone King of the Hill King of the Hill American Dad American Dad TRAV Bizarre Foods "Best Bites" Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures "Preston Castle" Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures TVL All in the Family All in the Family Sanford and Son Sanford and Son Sanford and Son Sanford and Son Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond USA NCIS "One Shot, One Kill" NCIS "Good Samaritan" NCIS "The Truth Is Out There" NCIS "The Good Wives Club" CSI: Crime Scene "Way to Go" VH1 (5:30)Bball Wives Basketball Wives "Reunion" Basketball Wives "Reunion" "What's Love Got to Do With It?"

('93) Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett.

(:15) "The Truth" ('10) John Heard.

VS WE WGN ENC HBO HBO2 MAX SHOW STARZ

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Family Guy Family Guy Ghost Adventures Hot in Cleveland Roseanne CSI: Crime Scene "Toe Tags" Love&Hip-Hop Beverly Hills Fab. Hunt for Big Fish Hunt for Big Fish CityLimitFishing "Ghost"

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North to Alaska North to Alaska Quest For One Quest For One Hunt for Big Fish CityLimitFishing CityLimitFishing Charlie Moore Best Tred Barta Charmed "Y Tu Mummy Tambien" Charmed "Ghost"

(1990,Romance) Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Swayze.

Dharma and Greg Dharma and Greg Old Christine Old Christine Old Christine Old Christine Met Your Mother Met Your Mother WGN News Scrubs Scrubs Movie "Mo' Money"

('92) Damon Wayans.

"G.I. Jane"

('97,Dra) Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Demi Moore. (:10) "Rambo III"

('88) Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone.

Movie (:45)First Look Ricky Gervais Eastbound Real Time With Bill Maher Real Time With Bill Maher "The Lovely Bones"

(2009,Drama) Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, (5:30) "Cast Away"

('00,Dra) Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Tom Hanks. "The Losers"

('10) Jeffrey Dean Morgan. (:45)First Look "The Last Samurai"

('03) Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise. (:15) "Turner & Hooch"

('89) Mare Winningham, Tom Hanks.

Movie "War Games 2: The Dead Code"

('08) "Edge of Darkness"

('10) Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Mel Gibson.

(5:15) "Cheri" ('09) "Push"

('09,Thriller) Dakota Fanning, Djimon Hounsou, Chris Evans. "Holy Rollers" ('10) Justin Bartha, Jesse Eisenberg.

"Youth in Revolt"

('09) Michael Cera.

(5:40) "Armored" ('09) (:10) "Maid in Manhattan"

('02) Ralph Fiennes, Jennifer Lopez.

"Brooklyn's Finest"

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Tea Table Meetings

SUNDAY, MARCH20

Petoskey Duplicate Bridge

Club meets at 1:30 p.m. on Sundays at 2144 Cemetery Road, Petoskey (behind Lowe’s). All players welcome.

Visit www.petoskeybridgeclub.com or call (231) 8810829 for information.

The Straits Area Ostomy As-

socition meets 2 p.m. Sunday, March 20, in the back doctors’ dining room at Northern Michigan Regional Hospital in Petoskey. All ostomates and interested persons are cordially invitied. Call Suzanne Holguinat (231) 347-5275 for more information.

MONDAY, MARCH21

Boyne City Rotary Club meets at 7 a.m. Monday at Robert’s Restaurant in Boyne City.

Lions Club will meet at noon

Monday at Stafford’s Weathervane restaurant, Charlevoix.

Harbor Duplicate Bridge

Club meets at noon Monday at 7196 Pleasantview Road, Harbor Springs. Everyone welcome. Singles call if you need a partner. Call first, (231) 526-5988.

Indian River Striders (IRS) are

inviting all walkers and runners to join them for fitness, exercise, motivation 9 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Indian River Chamber of Commerce, walking a brisk 4 miles usually on the North Central State Bicycle Trail. Running is continuing at 6 p.m. on Mondays.

For information call (231) 2388930 or (231) 238-1029

The Compassionate Friends,

Safe Harbor Chapter, provides support to parents who have experienced the death of a child or adult sibling. The chapter meets the third Monday of every month at Hiland Cottage in Petoskey. For information call Susan Conklin at (231) 582-7897 or JoAnn Locke at (231) 347-8487.

TUESDAY, MARCH22

Harbor Springs Chapter of

BNI (Business Networking International) meets 7-8:30 a.m. every Tuesday at the Harbor Springs City Hall. Free breakfast. For more information, call Shaun Osborne at Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., at (231) 439-0911.

Petoskey Duplicate Bridge

Club meets at noon Tuesdays at 2144 Cemetery Road, Petoskey. Players with 0-99 points welcome. Visit www.

PetoskeyBridgeClub.com or call (231) 881-0829 for information.

Northern Michigan People

for Peace meets 7 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month at Horizon Books in Petoskey.

Call (231) 348-5499 or (231) 547-2626.

The Boyne City Scrabble Club

meets 1-4 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the Boyne District Library, 201 E. Main St., Boyne City. For information call (231) 582-2908.

Miscellaneous

Finding a job is a challenge

in our current market. Get the help you need to find the job you want. Attend the Petoskey Michigan Works “Job Search Strategies” workshop at 9:30 a.m. every Monday. No appointment necessary. For more information, call (231) 439-5215.

Hospice of Little Traverse Bay

offers grief and loss support groups throughout the year in both Emmet and Charlevoix counties. These two-hour groups run for six consecutive weeks with both daytime and evening groups available. Other services include individual and family counseling for adults and children, educational in services, pregnancy and infant loss support program, survivors of suicide and caregiver support groups.

These services are provided free of charge through community contributions. Call (231) 487-4825.

Veterans Affairs ofEmmet

County is open 9 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday for assistance to all Emmet County veterans. Located in the See TEA TABLE on PAGE B8

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Quiz Central Quiz Central Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert at the O2 Perfect Health Paid Program Hockey NHL Live Golf Transitions Championship PGA Site: Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club -- Palm Harbor, Fla. Live Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live (:15)Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live According to Jim Auto Racing American Le Mans Series -- Sebring, Fla. Tennis BNP Paribas Open Site: Indian Wells Tennis Garden -- Indian Wells, Calif. Live TBA Auto Racing Jeff Byrd 500 NASCAR Site: Bristol Motor Speedway -- Bristol, Tenn. Live To Be Announced (10:30) "Pitch Black"

('00) Movie "The Chronicles of Riddick"

(2004,Sci-Fi) Judi Dench, Colm Feore, Vin Diesel. "Exit Wounds"

('01) Isaiah Washington, Steven Seagal.

The Sopranos "Big Girls Don't Cry" The Sopranos The Sopranos "D-Girl" Breakout Kings Breakout Kings "Collected" Criminal Minds "Aftermath" Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Fatal Attractions Fatal Attractions Attractions "My Sister the Lion" Fatal Attractions Taking on Tyson Kathy Griffin Top Chef "Fit For a King" Top Chef "Island Fever" Million Dollar Listing Million Dollar "Billionaire Buyer" Million Dollar "Going to the Dogs" Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program State of the Union Fareed Zakaria GPS CNN Newsroom Your Money CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom Southern Fried Southern Fried Southern Fried Southern Fried Southern Fried Southern Fried Southern Fried Southern Fried Southern Fried Southern Fried Southern Fried Southern Fried Edgemont Edgemont Smash Cuts Smash Cuts "Dancing at Lughnasa"

('98) Michael Gambon, Meryl Streep. "The Painting" ('02) Stacey Dash, Charles Shaughessy.

Flying Wild Alaska "Goodbye Sun" Sons of Guns Sons of Guns Treasures Auction Kings Desert Car Kings American Chopper: "ESAB Bike" Man vs. Wild "Pacific Island" Wizards Wizards Good Luck ...

Shake It Up H. Montana H. Montana Sonny Chance Sonny Chance Sonny Chance Good Luck ...

Wizards Wizards (11:00)Basket. NIT Tournament Live Baseball T. Live Billiards Pro Tour WPBA Billiards Pro Tour WPBA Billiards Pro Tour WPBA Poker 2010 World Series -- Las Vegas, Nev. Basketball Division Tournament NCAA Live Scoreboard Live Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Scoreboard Live Basket. Division I Tournament Live (10:30) "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

('02) Daniel Radcliffe.

"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"

('04) Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe. Movie Golden Age The Game 365 Pistons in Focus PistonsLive Live Basketball Detroit Pistons vs. Atlanta Hawks NBA Site: Philips Arena -- Atlanta, Ga. Live Pistons Post Live Supergirl Jam News Fox News The O'Reilly Factor America's News HQ (10:30) "Superman Returns"

('06) "X-Men: The Last Stand"

('06) Patrick Stewart.

"The Incredible Hulk"

(2008,Action) Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, Edward Norton.

(11:00) "Always & Forever" ('09) "Time After Time" ('11) Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Richard Thomas.

"A Kiss at Midnight"

('08) Cameron Daddo, Faith Ford.

"The Wishing Well"

('09) House Hunters House Hunters My First Sale My First Place R. Estate Interv. Selling NY Bang for Buck Get It Sold House Hunters House Hunters For Rent The Unsellables Ancient Discoveries Ancient Discoveries Art of War World War II "The Air War" (11:00) "Hush Little Baby" ('07) "The Perfect Bride"

('91) Linden Ashby, Kelly Preston.

"Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder"

('96) "Do You Know Me?" ('09) Dead Men Talking Dead Men Talking Meet the Press Why They Run Why They Run The Crossbow Incident Deadly Secret Jersey Shore "Where's the Beach" Jersey Shore "Free Snooki" Jersey Shore "Drunk Punch Love" Jersey Shore Jersey Shore "Cabs are Here!"

Jersey Shore Explorer "Inside the DEA" Explorer Explorer "Marijuana Nation" Drugged "High on Marijuana" Drugged "High on Cocaine" Drugged "High on Ecstasy" Power Rangers SpongeBob iCarly iCarly iCarly Odd Parents SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob Victorious Victorious (11:00) "The Seamstress" ('09) "See No Evil"

('06) Christina Vidal, Rachel Taylor, Glen Jacobs. "The Prophecy"

('95) Elias Koteas, Christopher Walken.

"Kill Theory" (2009,Horror) Beverly Hills 90210 Gilmore Girls Gilmore Girls "That'll Do Pig" One Tree Hill "It's Alright, Ma" One Tree Hill One Tree Hill (10:30)Race Live 2 Guys Garage My Classic Car Car Science Arenacross National Series AMA M.Racing MOTOGP World Live Arenacross National Series AMA Supercross Lites AMA MuscleCar (:20) "The Punisher"

(2004,Action) John Travolta, Rebecca Romijin-Stamos, Thomas Jane.

"Ladder 49"

(2004,Action) John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Joaquin Phoenix. (:15) "Four Brothers"

('05,Act) Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin, Mark Wahlberg.

"The Bourne Supremacy"

('04) Franka Potente, Matt Damon.

"Shooter"

('06) Mark Wahlberg.

Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Lottery Changed My Life 3 Lottery Changed My Life 3 Lottery Changed My Life 3 Lottery Changed My Life Lottery Changed My Life "Step Up"

('06) Jenna Dewan, Channing Tatum.

"Step Up 2: The Streets"

('08) Robert Hoffman, Briana Evigan. "Stomp the Yard" (2006,Drama) Meagan Good, Columbus Short.

Extreme Beaches Top Ten Caribbean Beaches Florida's Top Ten Beaches Top Ten Hawaiian Beaches Top Ten Mexican Beach Resorts World's Best Spring Breaks (11:30) "The Break Up"

('06) Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn.

Law & Order: S.V.U. "Scourge" "Sex and the City"

(2008,Comedy) Kim Cattrall, Kristen Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker.

(11:30)Behind Basketball Wives "Reunion" Basketball Wives "Reunion" Love&Hip-Hop Beverly Fab. Wedding Wars Saturday Night Live "The Best of Amy Poehler" The Bass Pros Bill Dance FLW Outdoors Whacked Out Whacked Out Snowmobiling Snocross Lacrosse Boston Blazers vs. Buffalo Bandits NLL (11:30) "Coraline"

('09) (:15)First Look Real Time With Bill Maher Big Love "The Box"

('07) Giancario Esposito, Gabrielle Union.

"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" ('10) (11:30) "Crazy Heart"

('09) Jeff Bridges. (:15)First Look Pee-Wee "(500) Days of Summer"

('09) "X-Men Origins: Wolverine"

('09) Hugh Jackman. (:40) "Darkman 3: Die, Darkman, Die" ('96) (:10) "Darkman 2: The Return of Durant"

('95) (:45) "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past"

('09) "Darkman"

('90) Liam Neeson.

(11:30) "The Sum of All Fears"

('02) (:45) "Sling Blade"

(1995,Drama) Lucas Black, Dwight Yoakam, Billy Bob Thorton. "Adam Resurrected" ('08) Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum.

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Paid Program Paid Program TMZ Cops Cops America Most Wanted Entourage Enthusiasm Fringe "Stowaway" (5:00) "Tombstone"

('93) Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Kurt Russell. "Speed"

(1994,Action) Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper, Keanu Reeves.

"Speed"

('94) Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves.

Intervention "Benny" Intervention "Erin" Intervention "Megan/ Maryanne" Intervention "Cassie" Intervention "Jamie" Intervention "Tiffany" Must Love Cats Must Love Cats Must Love Cats Pit Boss XL "Little Chippendales" Pit Boss "Shorty the Ghostbuster" Pit Boss XL "Little Chippendales" House "Ugly" House "You Don't Want to Know" House "Games" House "It's a Wonderful Lie" House "Frozen" House "Don't Ever Change" Paid Program Paid Program Money-Motion Made Millions American Greed: Scam Suze Orman "What Not to Cut" Debt do Us Part Debt do Us Part American Greed: Scam The Situation Room CNN Newsroom Murder in Mexico Piers Morgan Tonight CNN Newsroom Murder in Mexico Most Shocking "Wild Riots" Most Shocking "Wild Riots 2" Top 20 Most Shocking truTV Presents: World's Dumbest truTV Presents: World's Dumbest Forensic Files Forensic Files (5:00) "The In Crowd"

('00) That '70s Show That '70s Show House "Simple Explanation" House "Saviours" House of Payne House of Payne Stargate Universe "Space" Apocalypse How 2012 Apocalypse Pompeii: Back from the Dead Bermuda Triangle Exposed Secrets of the Secret Service Pompeii: Back from the Dead H. Montana H. Montana Life on Deck Life on Deck Wizards Life on Deck Good Luck ...

Shake It Up Shake It Up Shake It Up Shake It Up Wizards (5:30)Sports SportsCenter Wrestling Division I Tournament NCAA Site: Wells Fargo Center -- Philadelphia, Pa. Live SportsCenter Scoreboard Live Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Scoreboard Live Poker '10 World Series Baseball Tonight Drag Racing Lucas Oil Series NHRA (4:30) "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

(2005,Adventure) Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe.

"Billy Madison"

('95) America's News HQ FOX Report Weekend Huckabee Justice with Judge Jeanine Geraldo at Large Journal Edit.

FOX News Basketball MHSAA Final H.S. -- East Lansing, Mich. Live Hockey Detroit Red Wings vs. Nashville Predators NHL -- Nashville, Tenn. Live Post-game Live Wingspan Wingspan (5:00) "Madagascar: Escape 2... "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa"

('08) Ben Stiller.

2 1/2 Men 2 1/2 Men 2 1/2 Men 2 1/2 Men Archer Movie (5:00) "Always & Forever" ('09) "Flower Girl"

('09) Kieren Hutchison, Marla Sokoloff.

"Time After Time" ('11) Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Richard Thomas.

"Time After Time" ('11) Designed to Sell House Hunters House Hunters Candice Tells All Dream Home Cash and Cari From a Stylist Antonio Treat. House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters (5:00)Reagan Modern Marvels Underwater "Fatal Pressure" Underwater Universe Underwater "Killer Shockwaves" Underwater Universe (5:00) "Not My Life"

('06) "Anywhere But Here"

('99) Natalie Portman, Susan Sarandon. "The Secret Life of Bees"

('08) Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Dakota Fanning. Coming Home In the Dead of Night Lockup "Raw: The Daily Grind" Lockup "Raw: Inmates Gone Wild" Lockup Lockup Jersey Shore "Drunk Punch Love" Jersey Shore Jersey Shore "Cabs are Here!"

Jersey Shore Jersey Shore "Kissing Cousins" Jersey Shore "A Cheesy Situation" Eyewitness Explorer The Real Bonnie and Clyde Alaska Troopers "Highway Hijinks" Alaska State Troopers The Real Bonnie and Clyde iCarly iCarly iCarly iCarly iCarly Dancing Crazy True Jackson Big Time Rush George Lopez George Lopez The Nanny The Nanny (4:30) "Silent Hill"

('06) "Population 436"

('06) Leigh Enns, Fred Durst, Jeremy Sisto. "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" ('06) "Wrong Turn 2: Dead End" Gilmore Girls "That'll Do Pig" The Young and the Restless The Young and the Restless The Young and the Restless The Young and the Restless The Young and the Restless Monster Jam "Philadelphia" Speed Center Lucas Oil Edge Auto Racing Food City 500 NASCAR The 10 NASCAR Perf. Speedmakers "Jaguar" Speedmakers "Aston Martin" King of Queens King of Queens Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Cellblock 6: Female Lock Up Real Life "Justice for Sparkle" Real Life "Where There's Smoke" Real Life "Bad Chemistry" Real Life "Twisted Faith" Real Life "Where There's Smoke" Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live "Kill Bill Vol. 1"

('03) When Vacations Attack When Vacations Attack Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures NCIS "Shalom" NCIS "Iceman" NCIS "Ex-File" NCIS "Knockout" NCIS "Heartland" "Hostage"

('05) (5:30) "What's Love Got to Do With It?"

('93) Angela Bassett. Love&Hip-Hop Beverly Fab. Wedding Wars Basketball Wives "Reunion" Basketball Wives "Reunion" Lucas Oil Motorsport Hour Bull Riding PBR -- Glendale, Ariz. Bull Riding PBR -- Fresno, Calif.

Snowboarding Grand Prix FIS Basketball Spr./F.W. NBDL "Charlie's Angels II: Full Throttle"

('03) Cameron Diaz.

"Cop Out" ('10) Tracy Morgan, Seann William Scott, Bruce Willis. The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway "Cop Out" Hung Ricky Gervais Bored to Death Bored to Death Boardwalk Empire "Belle Femme" Big Love: The End of Days "Up in the Air"

('09) Vera Farmiga, George Clooney.

(5:30) "Beverly Hills Cop II" ('87) (:15) "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"

('09) Michael Gambon, Daniel Radcliffe.

"The Book of Eli"

('09) Gary Oldman, Denzel Washington. (:15) "A Single Man"

('09) Julianne Moore, Colin Firth.

Shameless Alonzo Bodden Boxing Showtime Championship

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Out of Doors Wild. Journal America's Home Cooking "From the Garden" Eat and Cook Healthy With Dr. John La Puma Your Health Willa's Wild Life Pearlie Paid Program Paid Program EA Sports Golf Preview Golf Transitions Championship PGA Site: Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club -- Palm Harbor, Fla. Live Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Basket. Division I Tournament NCAA Live 333 TV Mystery Hunters Paid Program Paid Program Tennis BNP Paribas Open ATP Site: Indian Wells Tennis Garden -- Indian Wells, Calif. Live Paid Program Paid Program Cold Case Without a Trace Paid Program To Be Announced (11:45) "High Plains Drifter"

('73) Clint Eastwood. (:15) "Last of the Dogmen"

(1995,Drama) Tom Berenger, Kurtwood Smith, Barbara Hershey.

"Tombstone"

('93) Flip This House Flip This House "Broken Arrow"

(1995,Action) Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, John Travolta. Intervention "Michelle/ Austin" Intervention "Jenna" Animal Cops "Extreme Danger" Cats 101 America's Cutest Cat 2010 Must Love Cats Must Love Cats Must Love Cats House Miami "Optical Delusion" The Real Housewives of Miami The Real Housewives The Real Housewives Celebrity Apprentice Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program Paid Program CNN Newsroom Your Money CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom Speeders Speeders Hot Pursuit Hot Pursuit Hot Pursuit Hot Pursuit Most Daring Most Daring Most Shocking Edgemont Edgemont Heartland "Letting Go" True Hollywood "Heidi Klum" "Kevin of the North" ('01) Natasha Henstridge, Leslie Nielsen.

"The In Crowd"

('00) Cops & Coyotes "Desert Justice" Cops & Coyotes "Border Invasion" Texas Drug Wars Kidnap & Rescue I (Almost) Got Away With It I (Almost) Got Away With It Wizards Wizards Good Luck ...

Shake It Up H. Montana H. Montana Shake It Up Shake It Up Shake It Up Shake It Up Wizards Wizards (11:00)Basket. NIT Tournament Live NASCAR Countdown Live Auto Racing Scotts Turf Builder 300 NASCAR -- Bristol, Tenn. Live SportsCenter SportsCenter (11:00)Basket. Division I Tournament Live Scoreboard Live Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Scoreboard Live Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Movie "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

(2002,Family) Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe.

"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" ('04) Basketball MHSAA Final H.S. -- East Lansing, Mich. Live Lindner Fishing Ultimate Fishing Wingspan Big 12 Sports Basketball MHSAA Final H.S. -- East Lansing, Mich. Live News America's News HQ Journal Edit.

FOX News Glenn Beck America's News HQ (10:30) "Live Free or Die Hard"

('07) Justin Long, Bruce Willis. "Superman Returns"

(2006,Action) Parker Posey, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey.

"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" (11:00) "Flower Girl"

('09) "Growing the Big One" ('10) Kavan Smith, Shannen Doherty.

"For the Love of Grace"

('08) Chandra West, Mark Consuelos. "Always & Forever"

('09) Designed to Sell Designed to Sell The Unsellables Get It Sold Curb: Block Design on Dime Colour Conf.

Bang for Buck Candice Tells All Sarah's House Dear Genevieve C Spl: Miami Seven Deadly Sins "Greed" Secrets of the Dollar Bill Modern Marvels "Money" Secret Access: Air Force One Brad Meltzer's Decoded Reagan (11:00) "Baby for Sale"

('04) "Her Only Child"

('08) Kim Bubbs, Nicholle Tom. "Lies My Mother Told Me"

('05) Joely Richardson.

"Not My Life"

('06) Why Planes Crash "Human Error" Why Planes Crash "Fire in the Sky" Vegas Undercover Vegas Undercover The Spy Who Loved Her Unlocking the Past Teen Mom 2 "Two Steps Forward" Jersey Shore "A House Divided" Jersey Shore "Back to the Shore" Jersey Shore Jersey Shore "Where's the Beach" Jersey Shore "Free Snooki" Vegas Mafia Miami Drug Cartel Manhattan Mob Rampage Detroit Gang Squad Tijuana Drug Lords Bloods and Crips: L.A. Gangs Power Rangers SpongeBob iCarly iCarly SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob T.U.F.F. Puppy T.U.F.F. Puppy Victorious Victorious Movie "Children of the Corn"

('84) Linda Hamilton, Peter Horton.

"Splinter" (2007,Thriller) Tom Sizemore.

"Silent Hill"

('06) Sean Bean.

One Tree Hill "In da Club" Beverly Hills 90210 Bev.Hills 90210 "Addicted to Love" Bev.Hills 90210 "Change Partners" Beverly Hills 90210 Gilmore Girls Racing Food City 500 NASCAR Live 2 Guys Garage Hot Rod TV Auto Racing Homestead 200 Grand-Am -- Homestead, Fla. B.Jackson "The Shelby Legacy" B.Jackson "Mad About Mustangs" (:10)MuscleCar MuscleCar /(:40)Best of Pride (:50)Best of Pride Fighting Championships Best of Pride Fight.

Best of Pride Fight.

Best of Pride Fight.

(11:45) "College Road Trip" ('08) Raven Symone. "Guess Who"

('05) Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana, Bernie Mac. According to Jim Raymond Raymond Seinfeld Seinfeld Property Ladder Babies Behind Bars Babies Behind Bars Cellblock 6: Female Lock Up Female Lock Up "I Told the Truth!" Cellblock 6: Female Lock Up Law & Order "Girlfriends" (:15) "Kill Bill Vol. 2"

(2004,Action) David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Uma Thurman.

"Kill Bill Vol. 1"

('03) Lucy Liu, Uma Thurman.

Sturgis: Access Sturgis: Access Sturgis: Access Sturgis: Access Sturgis: Access Sturgis: Access Sturgis: Access Sturgis: Access Sturgis: Access Sturgis: Access Sturgis: Access Sturgis: Access NCIS "Kill Ari, Part 1" cont'd next NCIS "Kill Ari, Part II" Pt. 2 of 2 NCIS "Honor Code" NCIS "Bait" NCIS "Hiatus" Pt. 1 of 2 cont'd next NCIS "Hiatus, Part II" Pt. 2 of 2 (11:30) "Dick"

('99) Kirsten Dunst.

Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live Movie Sport Fishing Saltwater Exp. Into the Blue Charlie Moore Boxing World Series Snowboarding Grand Prix FIS Snowboard Progression Session FIS

('09) (:45)First Look ('09) Zach Gilford, Alexis Bledel. "Robin Hood" (2010,Adventure) Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong, Russell Crowe.

"Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" "Post Grad" (11:00) "Indecent Proposal" ('93) "Taking Woodstock"

('09) Kelli Garner, Henry Goodman.

Big Love: The End of Days "Love Happens"

('09) Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston.

Movie Movie "Juwanna Mann"

('02) Miguel Nunez.

"Deadly Impact"

('09) Sean Patrick Flannery. (:40) "Our Family Wedding" ('10) America Ferrera, Forest Whitaker. (:15) "Bandslam" ('09) Vanessa Hudgens, Alyson Michalka. (:15) "Leaves of Grass" ('09) Lucy DeVito, Edward Norton.

"Emma"

('96) Jeremy Northam, Gwyneth Paltrow.

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(5:30) "Demolition Man" ('93) Sylvester Stallone.

(1994,Action) Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper, Keanu Reeves. ('94) Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves.

"Speed" "Speed" Criminal Minds "The Boogeyman" Criminal Minds "North Mammon" Criminal Minds "The Performer" Criminal Minds "Parasite" Breakout Kings "The Bag Man" Breakout Kings "The Bag Man" Taking on Tyson I'm Alive "Death Wish" River Monsters: Unhooked RivMon Unhooked "Congo Killer" Taking on Tyson RivMon Unhooked "Congo Killer" Bethenny "There Is No Normal" Bethenny "Business as Unusual" The Real Housewives The Real Housewives The Real Housewives WatchWhat Housewives Paid Program Paid Program Diabetes Life Wall St. Journal Crime Inc.: Counterfeit Goods Mexico's Drug War Liquid Assets Crackberry'd CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom CNN Cover Story Stalker: Shooting Piers Morgan Tonight CNN Newsroom Stalker: Shooting Cops Cops Cops Basketball NIT Tournament NCAA Live truTV Presents: World's Dumbest truTV Presents: World's Dumbest King of Queens King of Queens Heartland "Letting Go" The Browns Cheaters "Dark Blue"

('02) Scott Speedman, Ving Rhames, Kurt Russell. The Browns Man vs. Wild "North Africa" Man vs. Wild "China" Man vs. Wild Man vs. Wild "Arizona Sky Islands" Man vs. Wild Man vs. Wild Life on Deck Life on Deck Life on Deck Life on Deck Good Luck ...

Shake It Up Life on Deck Wizards Sonny Chance Sonny Chance Sonny Chance Sonny Chance SportsCenter SportsCenter 30 for 30 "Four Days in October" 30 for 30 Baseball Tonight Live SportsCenter (5:00)Basket. Division I Live Scoreboard Live Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Scoreboard Live Poker '10 World Series Poker '10 World Series (5:30) "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

('05) Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe.

"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"

('07) Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe.

News FOX Report Weekend Huckabee Justice with Judge Jeanine Geraldo at Large Huckabee BMX MegaRamp ASA Triples Poker Bogata Open WPT Poker Borgata Open WPT Hooters Dream Girl Special Golden Age The Final Score Poker Bogata Open WPT "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer"

('07) Jessica Alba. "Iron Man"

(2008,Action) Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Robert Downey Jr..

"X-Men: The Last Stand" ('06) (5:00) "The Wishing Well" ('09) "Smooch" ('11) Kiernan Shipka, Simon Kassianides, Kellie Martin.

Golden Girls Golden Girls "Time After Time" ('11) Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Richard Thomas.

RV 2011 House Hunters House Hunters Holmes Homes Holmes Homes Holmes Inspection House Hunters House Hunters Income Property Income Property Ax Men "Tipping Point" Ax Men "King of the Hill" Ax Men "Fraying at the Edges" Ax Men American Pickers Top Shot "Bury the Hatchet" (5:00) "Do You Know Me?" ('09) "Smoke Screen" (2010,Drama) Currie Graham, Jaime Pressly.

Army Wives Coming Home "The Hat Trick" Army Wives Caught on Camera Caught on Camera "Bad Behavior" Caught on Camera "Boom!"

The Desperate Hours To Catch a Predator cont'd next Jersey Shore "Kissing Cousins" Jersey Shore "A Cheesy Situation" Jersey Shore Jersey Shore "A House Divided" The Real World: Las Vegas The Real World: Las Vegas Alaska State Troopers Explorer "Inside LSD" Explorer "Narco State" Inside Cocaine Submarines Alaska State Troopers Explorer "Narco State" iCarly iCarly Big Time Rush Victorious Wife & Kids Wife & Kids Hates Chris Hates Chris George Lopez George Lopez The Nanny The Nanny (5:00) "Kill Theory" (2009,Horror) "Joy Ride: Dead Ahead" ('08) Nick Zano, Nicki Aycox.

"Identity"

('03,Thril) Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Cusack. "Toolbox Murders"

('04) One Tree Hill "In da Club" General Hospital General Hospital General Hospital General Hospital General Hospital Supercross AMA -- Jacksonville, Fla. Speed Center NASCAR Victory Lane "Bristol" (P) Wind Tunnel With Dave Despain My Classic Car Car Crazy Speed Center (4:30) "Shooter"

('06) Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Lottery Changed My Life 3 Lottery Changed My Life Sister Wives Sister Wives "Free Range Browns" Cleaners Cleaners Sister Wives "Free Range Browns" Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Basketball Division I Tournament NCAA Live Leverage California Beaches Jamaica: Paradise Uncovered When Vacations Attack The Wild Within "Texas" The Wild Within "Guyana" When Vacations Attack Law & Order: S.V.U. "Behave" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Consent" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Pixies" Law & Order: S.V.U. "Folly" Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: S.V.U. "Manhunt" Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live "The Best of Jimmy Fallon" 40 Funniest Fails "Hour 1" 40 Funniest Fails "Hour 2" Wedding Wars Dirt Knights Whacked Out Whacked Out Bull Riding PBR -- Fresno, Calif.

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A benefit dinner will be

served 4-8 p.m. Saturday, March 18, to benefit Aidan Allard at Central Elementary School cafeteria, Petoskey.

First Christian Church, 308 Monroe St., Petoskey, food pantry is open 9 a.m.-noon every Wednesday.

Lighthouse lunch is held 11

a.m.-1 p.m. every Monday and Thursday at Community Church of God, 202 W. Hurlbut St., Charlevoix, in the fellowship hall of the church.

Anyone in need of a hot meal is welcome.

The Harbor Springs Com-

munity Food Pantry, located in the lower level of the Holy Childhood Community Center building (entrance on Third Street), is open from 9:30 a.m.-noon every non-holiday Monday. Food is available for anyone in need in the Harbor Springs area.

Those wishing to donate items may bring them to the pantry on Monday morning or leave them in baskets inside the entrances of the church from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Phone (231) 526-2017 ext. 43.

Bay Shore Presbyterian

Church food pantry is open from noon-3 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday. Use the back door. For information, call (231) 348-2086.

The Manna Food Pantry is

open 9 a.m.-noon on Tuesday to serve those in need in the Oden/Conway/M-119 area. For more information, call (231) 347-8852.

Cross of Christ Lutheran

Church, Petoskey, Paper Pantry is open 5-7 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month and 9-11 a.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month. The Paper Pantry

New spring merchandise arriving daily!

provides items such as toilet paper, shampoo, dish soap, laundry detergent as available to individuals who state a need for such assistance.

Contact Cross of Christ, (231) 347-5448.

The Parsons Centennial

Farm will host its, fifth annual open house for their Harwood Heritage Gold Maple Syrup business from 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, March 20. Visitors will have the opportunity attend different stations to learn about the process of collecting maple sap and boiling it into maple syrup.

Available to visitors will be a demonstration of how to tap a tree, (in the past and in the present), the collection system with the network of tubing, the reverse osmosis and boiling process, the grading process, sugar-on-snow, and tasting of delicious treats.

The farm is located at 00061 Parsons Road. The event is free to the public.

The Charlevoix Commu-

nity Food Pantry is open to residents of the Charlevoix Public School district who need emergency food. It’s located in the Congregational Church on the corner of State Street and Park Avenue and its hours of operation are: 10 a.m.-noon Monday and Thursday. The pantry will be closed when Charlevoix Schools are closed.

Cross of Christ Lutheran and

Emmanuel Episcopal churches provide a free lunch from noon-1 p.m. every Thursday for those in need at the First Presbyterian Church in Petoskey. All are welcome.

WIC appointments are now available at Health Department offices in Antrim, Charlevoix, Emmet and Otsego Counties. WIC provides free food for eligible pregnant and post-partum women; infants; and children. For appointments, call the Health Department of Northwest Michigan at (231) 547-0295 or (800) 432-4121.

Free and anonymous HIV

counseling and testing Orasure/oral test, no needles.

For information, call ( 800) 432-4121.

Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Emmet, Kalkaska and Otsego counties by dialing toll free (800) 442-7315.

North Country Community Mental Health Services Board has contracted with Traverse City’s Third Level Crisis Intervention Center to provide crisis counseling services around the clock in the service area.

A new 4-H club for 5 to 7

year olds is forming in Good Hart starting in May. “The Woodsy Walkers� will delight in nature, storytelling, story making, and drawing. If you feel your child might be interested in joining this club, contact Diane Brazier at the Emmet County MSU Extension Office at (231) 439-8974.

The Christian Science Read-

ing Room is a study room, library and bookstore. The public is welcome. It is open from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The Reading Room is located at 434 E. Lake St., Petoskey. The phone number is (231) 348-7648.

The Women’sResource

Center of Northern Michigan offers educational support group meetings for past or present victims of domestic abuse. The group meets from 6-7:30 p.m. every Monday at the Women’s Resource Center Safe House. Call (231) 347-1572 or (800) 275-1995 for further information.

Self-help Alcoholics Anonymous 24-hour information call (231)348-5005.

Al-Anon /Alateen information is available by calling (231) 675-7044.

Caregiver Support meets

1:30-3 p.m. the fourth Thursday at Petoskey Friendship Center library. Call (231) 3473211 or (888) 347-0369.

Celebrate Recovery is a

Christ-centered recovery program which meets at the Walloon Lake Community Church 7-9 p.m. every Thursday. For information, call John at (231)347-3985 or Terry at (231)582-7590.

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The event will raise money to install a dance floor in the lower level of the building. The project is expected to cost around $6,000 when completed, said Ross “Popeye� Boucher, assistant adjutant at the post.

People can expect to find a little bit of everything at the sale, he said.

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Compassionate Friends, a

Narcotics Anonymous

support group for bereaved parents, meets the third Monday at Hiland Cottage in Petoskey. Call Susan at (231) 582-7897 or JoAnn at (231) 347-8487.

Depression Bipolar Sup-

port Alliance/Northwest Michigan is a nonprofit peer led Christian support group.

It meets 9:30-11 a.m. the second and fourth Saturday of the month at Freedom House, 12705 U.S. 31, Charlevoix. For information call Del B. at (231) 675-3196.

DivorceCare information, call (231) 547-9482 for details.

Emotional and mental

health self-help group. Call (231) 582-2699.

Grandparents Raising

Grandchildren meet 6-7:30 p.m. on the fourth Monday of each month, January through November (no December meeting), at Petoskey Friendship Center library. Child care available by appointment. Call (231) 347-3211 or (888) 347-0369.

Grief and loss support group

meets 1-2:30 p.m. the third Thursday of the month at Hospice of Little Traverse Bay, One Hiland Drive, Petoskey. (231) 487-4825.

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Harbor Springs Friendship Center activities Tuesday, March 22: exercise 9 a.m. in building D, potluck.

East Jordan Senior Center

activities Tuesday, March 22: line dancing 11 a.m., lunch at noon: fish sandwich, peas, soup and salad bar, bingo 12:30 p.m., paint class 1 p.m.

Pregnancy and infant loss

support group information, call (231) 487-4825.

Self-help group information is found on www.petoskeynews.com.

Pellston Friendship Center

activities Tuesday, March 22: water fitness 8:45 a.m., coffee 10 a.m., games 10:30 a.m., lunch at noon: spaghetti and meatballs, ice cream.

Senior citizens Petoskey Friendship

Center activities Tuesday, March 22: foot care 8:30 a.m., massage 9 a.m., Wii 10 a.m., lunch at noon: spaghetti and meatballs, ice cream 1 p.m.

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Center is serving dinners at 5 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 1 p.m. on Sundays. The center is located at the Lion Dan Russell Building on Cedar Street in Mackinaw City.

Beaver Island Senior Center

activities Tuesday, March 22: Arthritis Foundation exercise 11 a.m., lunch: fish filet, red potatoes.

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Winter rafting:

A unique way to enjoy the scenery Rachel Brougham (231)439-9348 - rbrougham@petoskeynews.com

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hile boating weather is still weeks away, it doesn’t mean you can’t get out on the water.

Winter rafting, a cold-weather activity that has increased in popularity in recent years, allows people of all ages to get out on the water and enjoy the serene winter scenery as they make their way down one of our local rivers. “It’s beautiful and so peaceful,� said Kay Harper, co-owner of Jordan Valley Outfitters in East Jordan. “Most of the time you don’t see anyone else. It’s just you, the quiet and a fair amount of wildlife.�

Harper and her husband, Scott, have offered winter rafting excursions down the Jordan River for the last 13 years.

Rafts hold up to six people and are guided. Trips last approximately an hour and a half, with a stop for a hot

drink and snacks along the river. “Don’t worry, you won’t get wet,�

Harper said. “The worst thing that has happened in our 13 years is we had a 3-year-old who wanted to touch the water because she was so interested, so her parents just had to try to keep her hand out of the water. So really, there are no worries about getting wet.�

There are departures at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Rafting trips will go through this weekend; after that, trips can be set up for the rest of the season if there is an interest.

The price is $39 per person. “This weekend (March 18-20) is a full moon, so our 5:30 trip will be pretty awesome, especially if it’s clear or a snowy night. It will be just gorgeous,�

Harper added.

For reservations or more information, call Jordan Valley Outfitters at (231) 536-0006 or visit www.jvoutfitters. com.

In Indian River, rafters can enjoy an

While you won’t get wet on a locally guided winter rafting trip, you should dress for the conditions. Gloves or mittens, hats and boots are all recommended. Snow pants are also suggested, depending on the temperature. hour and a half trip down the Sturgeon River through Big Bear Adventures.

A guide will lead up to six adults along a stretch of river dotted with mostly private land. “A winter trip is great because there is nobody else on the river and it’s really beautiful if you’ve had fresh snow,� said Big Bear Adventures general manager Gary Phillips.

Wildlife also abounds along the Stur-

geon n River.

Phillipss said it’s common to o see not only y deer and beavers, but also the occasional eagle, mink and turkey.

Departures take place at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and d 3 p.m., seven days a week.

The cost is $42 per person for a two-person trip, or for a full raft, the cost is $34 per person. Children 6 to 12 years old are $26, and those 5 and under are $5.

Advance reservations are required and can be made by calling (231) 2388181. Information can also be found at www.bigbearadventures.com. “Hurry up and get out here before the snow is gone,� Phillips said. “It’s really a trip everyone can enjoy.�

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ONGOING EVENTS 7:07 — Zion Lutheran Church in Petoskey hosts “7:07 rock ‘n’ roll worship” at 7:07 p.m. every Monday, featuring The Ablaze Band.

Pizza dinner 6:30-7 p.m. Kids pajama party in the nursery. Contact Randy Hitts, (231) 6223565 or rjhitts@aol.com.

Blissfest coffeehouse — A Blissfest coffeehouse and open mic is 1-4 p.m. every Sunday at the Grain Train, Petoskey. Visit www.graintrain.coop or www.blissfest.org.

Breakfast — An all-you-can-eat pancake, eggs and sausage breakfast is 7:3011:30 a.m. the first Sunday of every month through May at the VFW Hall, 12735 U.S. 31 North, Charlevoix. Cost is $5 for adults or $3 for children. Takeout and delivery available. Handicap accessible. Call (231) 675-4444.

Breakfast — The Knights of Columbus Council 7365 host an all-you-can-eat breakfast 8 a.m.-noon the first Sunday of every month through June at the Cross in the Woods Family Center, Indian River. There will be pancakes, sausages, ham, hash browns, eggs, toast, fruit, orange juice, coffee, tea and milk. Cost is $7 for adults or $2 for children under 12.

Breakfast — Breakfast is 7 a.m.-noon Sundays through March at the Sno-Mobilers Club in East Jordan. Visit www.ejchamber.org.

Concert — Pine Lake Winds Band will be playing 7-8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Charlevoix Middle School band room, Charlevoix. Public is welcome. Call Ev Wujcik, (231) 547-6376.

Dance class — The USA Dance Chapter 2048 hosts dance classes 7-9 p.m. every Tuesday in March at the Vivace School of Music and Arts, Harbor Springs. Dances will feature the tango. Cost is $4 for non-members and $2 for USA Dance members. E-mail Judy Wojcik at jwojcik@charter.net.

Film — Petoskey Film Theater shows independent, foreign and art house films 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays at the Petoskey District Library Carnegie building. Donations are appreciated. Call the PFT Movie Hotline at (231) 758-3108 or send an e-mail to petoskey.film.theater2@ gmail.com.

Fundraiser — First Friday celebrations benefiting Charlevoix Circle of Arts are 5-7 p.m. the first Friday of the month at Stafford’s Weathervane Restaurant, Charlevoix. Music by Northwest Academy students and friends. Cost is $10 per person.

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Junior Birders — SEE-North Junior

School musical — The musical “My

Birders of Northern Michigan is an interactive program of birding field trips that provides children 8-14 with a new adventure at every location. This club will meet once a month at different locations throughout the area. (231) 348-9700; www.seenorth.org.

Fair Lady” will be presented by East Jordan Thespians at the East Jordan community auditorium, East Jordan High School, East Jordan. Show times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 18-19, 3 p.m. Sunday, March 20, and 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, March 24-25. Tickets are $3 each and are available at the door. Call (231) 536-2259.

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Irish Heritage Festival — Boyne

Council’s Ice Breaker lecture series is noon1 p.m. at the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, Petoskey. Topics include: regional gaps analysis work Thursday, March 24. The lectures are free and open to the public. Call (231) 347-1181 or visit www.watershedcouncil.org/events.

City’s Irish Heritage Festival is Friday through Sunday, March 18-20, in Boyne City. Friday events include an Irish heritage dinner featuring a six-course traditional Irish feast, Irish step dancers, Celtic music and more 5-8 p.m. at the Eagles hall, 101 River St. Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for children 6-12 years old. Visit www.boynechamber.com for a complete schedule.

Music benefit — Live music 6 p.m. every Saturday at the American Legion Hall in Petoskey. An open jam will follow concerts 8:30-10 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Manna Food Project, the Salvation Army and Nazarene Church in Alanson. Suggested donations are nonperishable items. Local talent is invited to take part. This gathering is smokeand alcohol-free, and kid friendly. Call (231) 348-9694.

Music session — A Celtic music session with Gaeyle Gerrie Bossand John Richey is the first and third Sunday of the month. For future locations, visit www.synergysong.com.

Pray Petoskey — Community nondenominational prayer gatherings are in Petoskey as follows: Pray Petoskey 7-8 a.m. Mondays at the Petoskey Friendship Center, noon Tuesdays at Petoskey City Hall and noon-1 p.m. Wednesdays at the Northern Michigan Regional Hospital chapel in Petoskey. Call (231) 758-0302 or (231) 347-9387.

Roller skating — Roller skating for those 3-18 years old is noon-3 p.m.

Saturdays through April 1 at the Harvest Barn Church in East Jordan. Cost is $5. Call (231) 536-2870.

Serene Jewel Sangha — Serene Jewel Sangha 7-9 p.m. Wednesdays in the Donovan Room of the Augustine Center in Conway.

The third Wednesday of each month the group meets in noble silence from 7:30-9 p.m.

Contact Michael Winnell, (231) 347-5557 or serene.jewel@gmail.com.

Teen program — An after school teen program for those in grades six-12 is 3-5 p.m.

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Dance — A St. Patrick’s Day teen dance for grades six-12 is 7-11 p.m. Friday, March 18, at the Levering Community Center, Levering. Cost is $5 and includes dancing, pizza, pop, games and prizes. Call (231) 537-4404.

Mountain’s Carnival Weekend is Friday through Sunday, March 18-20, at the resort in Boyne Falls. On Friday, slopes are open 9 a.m.-9 p.m. with an outdoor cookout 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on the patio of Stein Eriksen’s. At 9:30 p.m. there will be live entertainment at the Snowflake Lounge.

Visit www.boyne.com.

Dance — A Blissfest swing dance is 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 18, at the Emmet County Fairgrounds, Petoskey. Cost is $10 for adults, $6 for those under 18 or free for those under 5. Visit www.blissfest.org.

Fish fry — A fish fry is 4-7 p.m. Friday, March 18, at the Pancake Chef Restaurant, Mackinaw City. Cost is $8 for adults or $5 for children under 12. Proceeds benefit the Mackinaw Memorial Parade. Call (231) 4365578.

Art auction — Student art works will be up for grabs during a silent/live auction 6:30-9 p.m. Friday, March 18, at the Concord Academy school in Petoskey. Cost is $5 for a bid card and includes dessert.

Call (231) 439-6800.

Carnival Weekend — Boyne

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DJ Four at 9:30 p.m. every Friday.

BOYNE FALLS Eagle’s Nest, Boyne Mountain, Boyne Falls — Dan Farrow 6-8:30 p.m. every Saturday in March.

City Park Grill, Petoskey — DJ 2xtrubl 10 p.m. Saturday, March 26.

Noggin Room, Stafford’s Perry Hotel, Petoskey — Billy Brandt and

Eriksen’s, Boyne Mountain, Boyne Falls — Michelle Chenard 4-7 p.m. Saturday, March 19.

Sarana VerLin 8-11 p.m. Friday, March 18.

Doug Thomas 8-11 p.m. Saturday, March 19. Boyne River Remedy 8 p.m.-midnight Monday, March 21. Bob Greenway 8-11 p.m.

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Everett’s, Boyne Mountain, Boyne Falls — Ben Overbeek 7-10 p.m.

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Comedy 9-10:30 p.m. and DJ Shawn at 11 p.m. every Saturday; $5 admission.

Papa Lou’s, Petoskey — Karaoke with DJ Seezy 10 p.m. on Wednesdays. Live entertainment 10 p.m. every Thursday. DJ Bill da Cat 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

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9 p.m. every Saturday.

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Root Fusion 6-9 p.m. and Mac Daddy 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Saturday, March 19.

Snowflake Lounge, Boyne Mountain, Boyne Falls — Mac Daddy 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Friday, March 18. Pete Kehoe 8-11 p.m. Wednesday, March 23. Galactic Sherpas 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Friday, March 25.

cava, Bay Harbor — Chris Koury 8-11 p.m. Friday, March 18. Charlie Reager 8-11 p.m. Saturday, March 19. Pete Kehoe 8-11 p.m. Friday, March 25.

South American Grill, The Inn at Bay Harbor, Bay Harbor — Michelle Chenard 7-11 p.m. Friday, March 18. Ron Getz 7-11 p.m. Saturday, March 19.

Nathan Bates 7-11 p.m. Friday, March 25.

BELLAIRE

BOYNE CITY Boyne City Lanes, Boyne City — DJ 8 p.m. every Friday. Nicki Lee’s Karaoke 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. every Saturday.

Cafe Santé, Boyne City — Sean Ryan 8-11 p.m. Friday, March 18. Ron Getz 5:30-9 p.m. Thursday, March 24. Sean Bielby and Adam 8-11 p.m. Friday, March 25.

Sportsmans Bar, Boyne City —

Thursday. Ray J the DJ 9:30 p.m. every Friday unless noted.

INDIAN RIVER

ELMIRA

The Pinehurst, Indian River — Entertainment by Alvis 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

The Railside Bar and Grill, Elmira — Karaoke 9:30 p.m. every Friday.

Wigwam, Indian River — Karaoke 9:30 p.m. every Wednesday.

CHARLEVOIX

GAYLORD

Flight Deck, Charlevoix — DJ

Stampede Saloon, Gaylord —

Karen 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Wednesdays. Karaoke 10 p.m. every Thursday.

Jelly Roll Blues Band 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m.

Saturday, March 19. Rock Canyon Band 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday and Saturday, March 25-26.

Giuseppe’s Italian Grille, Charlevoix — Connie’s Karaoke 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. every Friday.

Whitneys, Charlevoix — Karaoke

HARBOR SPRINGS

LEVERING The Frontier Saloon, Levering — Karaoke 9 p.m.-1 a.m. every Thursday.

MACKINAW CITY Dixie Saloon, Mackinaw City — DJ 11 p.m.-2 a.m. every Friday and Saturday.

9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. every Tuesday.

Northern Lights Recreation, Harbor Springs — The Push 9:30 p.m.-

EAST JORDAN

1:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday, March 18-19.

The Myk Rise Band 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

Friday and Saturday, March 25-26.

JR’s Tailgate Pub, Mackinaw City — Karaoke 9 p.m.-2 a.m. every Friday.

mic night with Cal Manis 7-11 p.m. every Tuesday. John Slough 7 p.m. every Friday.

Slopeside, Boyne Highlands, Harbor Springs — Michelle Chenard

TOPINABEE

The Zone, East Jordan — Connie’s Karaoke 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. every Thursday.

8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16. Pete Kehoe and Michelle Chenard 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 17. Charlie’s Root Fusion 9 p.m. Friday, March 18. Nancy’s Fury 9 p.m.

Saturday, March 19.

Short’s Brewery, Bellaire — Matt Phend 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19.

Nancy’s Fury performs 9 p.m. Saturday, March 19, at Slopeside, Boyne Highlands, Harbor Springs.

Skier Services Center, Boyne Mountain, Boyne Falls — Charlie’s

p.m.-1 a.m. every Monday.

The Riverside, Alanson — Karaoke

NANCY’S FURY

p.m. every Friday and Saturday. Charlie Reager 9 p.m.-midnight Friday, March 18.

Jordan Inn, East Jordan — Open

ELLSWORTH Gold Nugget Bar and Grill, Ellsworth — Open mic 9 p.m. every

Breaker’s Bar, Topinabee — Driven 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 18-19. The Intoxitones 9:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, March 25-26.

WOLVERINE

Zoo Bar, Boyne Highlands, Harbor Springs — Aaron Vaughn and

Meadows Bar and Grill, Wolverine — Muddy Bottom Boys 7-11

friends 4:30-8 p.m. Saturday, March 19.

p.m. every Saturday.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 19

ONGOING EVENTS

School musical — The

musical “My Fair Lady” will be presented by East Jordan Thespians at the East Jordan community auditorium, East Jordan High School, East Jordan. Show times are 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 19, 3 p.m.

Sunday, March 20, and 7 p.m.

Thursday and Friday, March 24-25. Tickets are $3 each and are available at the door. Call (231) 536-2259.

Valley District Library, East Jordan. Call (231) 536-7131.

ART EXHIBITS

Exhibit — “Faces of Northern Michigan” exhibit is on display through May 31 at Real People Media Community Media Center in Charlevoix. Hours are 3-5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays or by appointment. Call (231) 838-6460 or visit www.realpeoplemedia.org.

School musical — The musical “Guys and Dolls” is presented by Boyne City students at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 19, 2 p.m. Sunday, March 20, and 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 25-26, at the Boyne City Performing Arts Center, Boyne City High School, Boyne City.

Call (231) 439-8100 for ticket information.

Exhibit — “Winter Haiku” is on display 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Fridays through Mondays at Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. The exhibit is on display through March. Visit www.threepinesstudio.com or call (231) 526-9447.

Irish Heritage Festival — Boyne City’s Irish Heritage Festival is Saturday through Sunday, March 19-20, in Boyne City.

Saturday events include dance workshops 10 a.m.-noon at the Early Education building at the corner of Park and Main streets. A genealogy workshop will follow 1-3 p.m. at the Boyne District Library. Visit www.boynechamber.com for a complete schedule.

Dance — A St. Patrick’s Day adult dance is 8 p.m.midnight Saturday, March 19, at the Levering Community Center, Levering. There will be live music by The Chubby Chasers. Cost is $10 and includes a cash bar. Must be 21 or older to attend. Call (231) 537-4404.

School musical — The

Petoskey Family History Library is open 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Wednesdays, and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. on Thursdays at the corner of Alcan and Country Club roads in Petoskey. (231) 758-2986.

musical “Oliver” will be presented by Petoskey students at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, March 24-26, at the Petoskey High School auditorium, Petoskey. Tickets are $8 at the school or at the door.

Contact Julie Saunders at (231) 348-2473.

History museum — The Harbor Springs History Museum, 349 E. Main St., is open to visitors 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Wednesday through Friday, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. The “Earl H. Mead” exhibit is open through July 9. Call (231) 526-9771 or visit www.harborspringshistory.org.

Story hour — Petoskey District Library lap sit for 3-year-olds is 10:30 a.m.

Mondays and 10:05 a.m. and 11:45 a.m.

Thursdays. Golden slumber story hour is 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays.

Exhibit — “Come Join Us for a Winter

Story time — Charlevoix Public Library

Cruise” exhibit runs through March at the Boyne Arts Collective, Boyne City. Winter hours are noon-5 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and noon-4 p.m. Sundays.

Visit www.boynearts.org.

is 10:30 a.m. every Thursday for children birth-5 and their caregivers. The library is at 220 W. Clinton St.

Story time — Story time for kids 1-2

Exhibit — An exhibit of mixed media

p.m. the second and fourth Saturday of the month at Local Flavor in Boyne City.

STORY TIMES

Art, science and history museum — Raven Hill Discovery

Story time — Crooked Tree District Library story time 10:30-11 a.m. every Wednesday in Walloon Lake for children birth-4 and their caregivers with stories, songs and crafts. (231) 535-2111.

Story time — Crooked Tree District

Center is open noon-4 p.m. Saturdays and 2-4 p.m. Sundays. Admission is $8 per person. Family activities are noon-4 p.m. every second Saturday and admission is free. Raven Hill is located between East Jordan and Boyne City just off C-48 at Pearsall Road. Call (231) 536-3369 or (877) 833-4254, or visit www.ravenhilldiscoverycenter.org.

Library story time 2-3 p.m. every Thursday in Boyne Falls for children birth-4 and their caregivers with stories, songs and crafts.

(231) 549-2277.

Story time — Playgroup and story time for children 0-5 years 9:30-11 a.m. every Wednesday at Jordan Valley District Library, East Jordan. (231) 536-7131.

History museum — Inland Water

Story time — Preschool story time

Route History Museum is open 10 a.m.2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and by appointment, off U.S. 31 on River Street in Alanson. Call (231) 838-5309 or visit www. iwrhs.com.

for 3- to 5-year-olds is 10:30 a.m. every Tuesday. Afternoon story time is 2:30 p.m.

Wednesdays. Children’s lap sit for those birth-3 years is 9:15 a.m. Mondays at the Boyne District Library, Boyne City.

Carnival Weekend — Boyne Mountain’s Carnival Weekend is Saturday and Sunday, March 19-20, at the resort in Boyne Falls. Saturday events include skiing at 9 a.m., music, games, adult costume contest, grilled foods and more. Visit www.boyne. com for a complete schedule.

Concert — A concert with Moonlight Red is 6 p.m.

Saturday, March 19, at the Petoskey American Legion Hall, Petoskey. An open jam will follow. Bring donations of food, toiletries, gift cards or cash for local charities. Call (231) 525-8133 or e-mail laurencorie@azilar.net.

Learning session — Visitors will learn how to use a GPS and compass at 1 p.m.

Saturday, March 19, at Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire.

Cost is $5 per person. Preregistration and advanced payment is required. Call (231) 533-8314.

Concert — A concert with Nathan Bates and Orpheum Bell is 8 p.m. Saturday, March 19, at Freshwater Studio, Boyne City. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door.

Call (231) 582-2588.

SUNDAY, MARCH 20

School musical — The musical “My Fair Lady” will be presented by East Jordan Thespians at the East Jordan community auditorium, East Jordan High School, East Jordan. Show times are 3 p.m. Sunday, March 20, and 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, March 24-25. Tickets are $3 each and are available at the door. Call (231) 536-2259.

School musical — The musical “Guys and Dolls” is presented by Boyne City students at 2 p.m.

Sunday, March 20, and 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 25-26, at the Boyne City Performing Arts Center, Boyne City High School, Boyne City. Call (231) 4398100 for ticket information.

Irish Heritage Festival — Boyne City’s Irish Heritage Festival wraps up Sunday, March 20, in Boyne City. Events include a Celtic music session 1-3 p.m. at the Boyne District Library. Visit www.boynechamber.com for a complete schedule.

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School musical — The

MUSEUMS

Highlands Krazy Daze is Saturday, March 19, at the resort in Harbor Springs.

There will be face painting, jump competitions, NASTAR racing, a silly slalom, inflatables and more 10 a.m.-4 p.m. for kids. Adult activities include a dual giant slalom race, Krazy Cup slalom and a costume contest, ski over the pond and more. Visit www. boyne.com for a complete schedule.

Family History Library — The

Exhibit — The annual juried photography exhibit runs through Friday, April 15, at Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey.

Photographer G. Randall Goss will be featured. Another exhibit, “This is My World,” featuring works of Michigan State University students, is on display through March 30. Call (231) 347-4337 or visit www.crookedtree.org.

by Lynn Carson will be on display through April 30 at the Jordan Valley District Library, East Jordan. Call (231) 536-7131.

Krazy Daze — Boyne

J. Blackbird Museum “Quillwork to Beadwork” 2011 exhibit is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday; call ahead at (231) 526-7999. The museum is located at 383 E. Main St., Harbor Springs. Call Joyce Shagonaby at (231) 526-2705 or e-mail jshag@chartermi.net.

musical “My Fair Lady” will be presented by East Jordan Thespians at the East Jordan community auditorium, East Jordan High School, East Jordan. Show times are 7 p.m.

Thursday and Friday, March 24-25. Tickets are $3 each and are available at the door. Call (231) 536-2259.

Blackbird museum — The Andrew

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School musical — The

Play — The Pellston Elementary Drama Club will be presenting “Captain Bree and her Lady Pirates” at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 20, at the Pellston High School auditorium. Cost is $8 for adults and $5 for students. Call (231) 539-8801.

Boyne Mountain, Boyne Falls.

Information, ideas and events will be discussed. Call (231) 536-7351 or e-mail info@ ejchamber.org.

musical “My Fair Lady” will be presented by East Jordan Thespians at the East Jordan community auditorium, East Jordan High School, East Jordan. Show time is 7 p.m.

Friday, March 25. Tickets are $3 each and are available at the door. Call (231) 536-2259.

School musical — The musical “Guys and Dolls” is presented by Boyne City students at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 25-26, at the Boyne City Performing Arts Center, Boyne City High School, Boyne City. Call (231) 439-8100 for ticket information.

School musical — The musical “Oliver” will be presented by Petoskey students at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 25-26, at the Petoskey High School auditorium, Petoskey. Tickets are $8 at the school or at the door. Contact Julie Saunders at (231) 3482473.

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Carnival Weekend —

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Boyne Mountain’s Carnival Weekend wraps up Sunday, March 20, at the resort in Boyne Falls. Events include skiing at 9 a.m. and the Slush Cup at noon. Visit www.boyne. com for a complete schedule.

Professor Peter Glendenning will talk about the exhibit “This is My World” at 10 a.m.

Tuesday, March 22, at Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Call (231) 347-4337 or visit www. crookedtree.org.

Open house — A maple syrup open house is 1-4 p.m.

Sunday, March 20, at Parsons Centennial Farm, Charlevoix.

The open house will feature maple syrup and how it’s made, and foods cooked with maple syrup. Call (231) 5472038.

MONDAY, MARCH 21 Breezeway blast-off — A Breezeway blast-off event is 7 p.m. Monday, March 21, at

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23

Multi-media performance — A multi-media performance by Freedom Sings, a program of the First Amendment Center in Washington, D.C., is 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 23, at the Student and Community Resource Center gymnasium at North Central Michigan College, Petoskey. Call (231) 439-6349 or visit www. ncmich.edu.

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Pal trip with alien Paul a fun ride

Lisa Kennedy The Denver Post

DENVER (AP) — Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are clever and endearing fellows. So one could easily expect the British duo of the zombie comedy “Shaun of the Dead” and the cop buddy riff “Hot Fuzz” to make their alien-meets-lads comedy “Paul” an out-of-this-world ride.

Alas, it is not to be. There are chuckles, even some deep guffaws, as sci-fi guys and comic book creators Clive Gollings and Graeme Wily hook up with a real alien by the name of, well, you know.

But in the end — as well as the middle and maybe even at the outset — “Paul” is more often a close encounter of the middling kind.

Seth Rogen provides the wisecracking voice of the green pint-size alien with the huge blue eyes. Paul crashed in America’s desert Southwest in 1947. Since then, he’s been the guest of a clandestine government operation.

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Corbin Bernsen (clockwise from top left), Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen are shown in a scene from “Major League.”

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In this film publicity image released by Universal Pictures, Paul the alien, voiced

by Seth Rogen (left), and Simon Pegg are shown in a scene from the film, “Paul.”

One thing is clear from Rogen’s turn: As Paul schooled his hosts, he also picked up the kind of crass habits that require an R rating.

It’s familiar, not incandescent, comedy. Still the film takes its most ambitious — and tonally complicated — turn when the trio pull into the Pearly Gates RV Park, where Moses Buggs (John Carroll Lynch) and daughter

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Charlie Sheen

performances

Christy Lemire

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AP Movie Critic

et’s go back to a happier, simpler time, back when Charlie Sheen was known primarily as an actor, and not a multimedia motormouth who’s coined such instant catchphrases as “winning” and “tiger blood,” and behaved so erratically that he lost his high-paying TV gig.

For a while there — mostly in the ‘80s — Sheen made movies, like his father, Martin Sheen, and his brother, Emilio Estevez. Sure, he appeared in his share of idiotic comedies and action flicks, but he also delivered some strong roles and worked with some daring directors. So let’s take a look at Sheen’s five best performances — outside of his Twitter account or webcast “Sheen’s Korner,” that is: “Platoon” (1986): Sheen is at the center of Oliver Stone’s Vietnam War epic — he’s standing in for Stone, really — as a young man conflicted about war and his place in the world, while simultaneously being torn between two powerful superiors. The film is immediate, intense and visceral, the winner of four Academy Awards including best picture and best director. It’s a spectacle of chaos, but Sheen — whose character, Chris, has dropped out of college to volunteer for the war because he feels it’s his patriotic duty — infuses it with introspection and humanity. This, and the next film on the list, would make Sheen a superstar in the mid1980s.

“Wall Street” (1987): Sheen reunites with Stone for a movie that could not be more reflective of its place and time.

He stars as Bud Fox, an ambitious, young stockbroker who’s willing to do whatever he must to get to the top. Again, he’s torn between two influential men: Michael Douglas in his Oscar-winning role as the greedy Gordon Gekko and Martin Sheen who’s also playing his on-screen father, a union leader who taught Bud to respect his blue-collar upbringing.

Bud is intoxicated by his lavish new lifestyle but — on screen, at least — eventually develops a conscience. Sheen reprised the role in a cameo last year in Stone’s sequel, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.” It ... was a bit awkward.

“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ” (1986): He only had a brief part — not nearly the screen time of star Matthew Broderick or even Alan Ruck as Ferris’ best friend, Cameron. But he’s a pivotal force in helping Jennifer Grey, as Ferris’ frustrated sister, loosen up and let go of her jealousy. Sitting in a police station with messy hair and dark circles under his eyes, he’s a dangerous delinquent but also kind of sexy.

Appropriately, the first word he utters to her is, “Drugs?” But by the end, he’s got Grey making out with him, then giggling hysterically as she dances out the door. It’s art foreshadowing life, reflecting Sheen’s ability to be both subversive and irresistible.

“Eight Men Out” (1988): John Sayles’ film about how the 1919 Chicago White Sox threw the World Series is probably the best movie ever made about baseball.

It’s intelligent, detailed and earnest, but it may not be for everyone, since it is literally so inside-baseball. Still, it placed Sheen among a tremendous ensemble cast, featuring John Cusack, David Strathairn and John Mahoney. He played center fielder Oscar “Hap” Felsch, who initially was reluctant to go along with the scheme but soon gave in, made some conspicuously sloppy plays and took the money.

“Major League” (1989): It seems only fitting in retrospect that “Wild Thing” was the song that played when Sheen’s character came out of the bullpen — and that he has difficulty with control. As Rick “Wild Thing” Vaughn, Sheen did his own pitching and supposedly hit 83 mph on the radar gun. As he’d declare these days in one of his many exclamatory tweets, “Fastball!”

The story of a Cleveland Indians team that plays better to avoid having the owner move them to Miami is still amusing today, featuring Berenger (again), Wesley Snipes and Corbin Bernsen. Sheen has talked of wanting to make another “Major League” movie; given his unparalleled propensity for staying in the spotlight, anything seems possible.

Think of any other examples? Share them with AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire through Twitter: http:// twitter.com/christylemire.

Ruth live a righteous Christian life.

Forget encounters of the third kind. As played by Kristen Wiig, the cowed daughter of a fiery father is in need of some human contact.

“Paul,” a Universal release, is rated R for language, including sexual references, and some drug use. Running time: 104 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

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The pies are also lso available to take home me at a price of $8.25. The servings are large, ge, so one pie could feed ed two people.

Adams makes a point of using as many fresh ingredients as possible, and while the ingredient list may be long, she believes it’s a recipe for even the most novice cook.

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wo years ago, Julie Adams, co-owner of Julienne Tomatoes in Petoskey, came across a recipe for a shepherd’s pie she couldn’t resist.

After some experimentation and tweaking with her chef, Rusty Hughes, the two came up with the perfect one-dish meal that will hit the spot during the colder months.

“It’s just so rich and filling,” Adams explained. “When you eat it, it makes you all warm inside, and it’s the perfect meal for a cool day.”

“And then of course you’re going to want to curl up on the couch for a nap,” she added with a laugh.

Rusty’s Shepherd’s Pie is served at Julienne Tomatoes on a regular basis next to their already famous soups and sandwiches.

Rusty’s Shepherd’s Pie Makes 1 9-by-13-inch dish or 9 12-ounce bowls

For the filling 2 ears of corn or 1 1/2 cups 1/4 cup butter 1 yellow onion, small dice 2 stalks celery, small dice 1/2 green pepper, small dice 1/2 red pepper, small dice 2 1/2 pounds ground beef or ground lamb 2 cloves garlic 1 1/4 cup bread flour 2 cups beef broth 2 cups fire roasted diced tomatoes 2 teaspoons dried thyme leaves 1 teaspoon dried rosemary leaves 1 tablespoon Worcestershire 1/2 cup red wine 1 1/2 cups frozen green peas Salt and pepper to taste

RACHEL BROUGHAM/NEWS-REVIEW

Rusty’s Shepherd’sPie features ground beef or lamb with vegetables and is topped with a cheesy mashed potato mixture. The dish is often featured at Julienne Tomatoes in Petoskey and is available for takeout.

For the topping 10 cups roughly chopped russet potatoes 1/2 cup butter 1 cup sour cream 1 cup whole milk 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese Salt and pepper to taste Paprika

“When you eat it, it makes you all warm inside, and it’s the perfect meal for a cool day.”

— Julie Adams, Julienne Tomatoes

MARCH 19th - 2011

Roast corn. Remove from cob and set aside.

Cook potatoes in salted water for 10-13 minutes or until tender. Drain and mash with butter, sour cream and cheese. Gradually add milk, being careful not to make them too soft. Season with salt and pepper, and set aside.

Sauté onion, celery and peppers in butter until soft. Add the ground beef or lamb mixture and cook until browned. Drain excess fat and add garlic and flour. Stir in beef broth, tomatoes, herbs, corn, peas, red wine and Worcestershire.

Simmer, partially covered, until thickened. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Butter a 9-by-13-inch casserole dish or soup bowls, and add meat mixture. Top with potatoes and paprika, and bake in a 350 degree oven until potatoes are golden.

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