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AuTrain Onota School District Showcases Danish-Inspired Art at DeVos Art Museum

For seven years, students from the AuTrain Onota School District have participated in the annual Children’s Exhibition, a very special artwork display at the DeVos Art Museum on the campus of Northern Michigan University in Marquette. Fourteen students in grades kindergarten to eighth have crafted unique and engaging artwork and are sharing it with the public. AuTrain Onota schools is one of only nine total schools showcasing their work and art teacher, Diane Illikainen, considers this a prestigious honor for her students.
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Memorial Day

John 15:13 - There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for a friend. Memorial Day is an occasion of grief, reflecting on the tragic loss of life and recounting their courageous military service.
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Centennial approaching: Book-loving Shingleton woman celebrates 100th birthday

Antonio Verrelli On June 4th Lucille Marie Taylor will celebrate something remarkably common and simultaneously rare - a birthday, but not just any birthday, a 100th! Plans for this year’s celebration have already begun, with Taylor and her daughter, Sandra Dwelley, organizing a family reunion - and sure to be a large one, at that. “I have three sisters still living,” said Taylor, “three daughters, and 12 grandchildren living in places like Wyoming, Colorado, and … Florida,” she added, continuing to list grandchildren and states until she couldn’t.
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Briefs

Summer Reading starts soon! Signup begins Friday, June 7. Join us Wednesday, June 12 at 1 p.m. for the kids’ kick-off with Ming the Magnificent Magician. Children (ages 0-12) can track their reading and earn prizes all summer. At 6 p.m., ages 12 and up can enjoy a Sushi Making Workshop. Don’t miss out! See page #4 for more information.
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Munising High School Natural Resources Class Fish Release Field Trip

On Tuesday May 14, Mrs. Ludecke’s Natural Resources class went to the Anne River to release the salmon fry that had been raised in the classroom. Students left at nine in the morning and returned back to school by one in the afternoon. Mrs. Ludecke’s Natural resources class is a mixture of tenth, eleventh and twelfth graders. Fourteen out of the thirty students went on the field trip.
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Honoring Chris: A Beacon of Recycling Advocacy in Munising/Alger County

Chris Case of Alger County Recycling is one of four recipients of the 2024 Excellence in Recycling Award, presented at the Michigan Recycling Coalition (MRC) 42nd Annual Conference. For over three decades, Chris has been dedicated to advancing recycling initiatives in the Munising/Alger County area of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Chris’s unwavering determination led to the rebuilding of recycling programs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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