LINCOLN — Region 9 Area Agency on Aging is hosting a free Caregiver Empowerment and Wellness Conference on April 23, at the Alcona County Commission on Aging in Lincoln from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. This year’s topics include Advance Care Planning, Decoding Dementia, and The Art of SelfCare. ...
ALCONA COUNTY — The Alpena County Library has released its schedule of events for April and it is going to be a busy month in Harrisville and Lincoln. On April 2, there will be a Puzzle-palooza and a community jigsaw puzzle exchange at the Harrisville branch. If you already have completed ...
Calling all bowlers! (And non-bowlers who like having fun!) Habitat for Humanity Northeast Michigan is hosting a Bowl to Build fundraiser event on Friday, April 17 at Thunder Bowl Lanes in Alpena! Get a team of four together for a fun, family-friendly event. For $25 per person, you get shoe rental, two hours of bowling, pizza and a pitcher of pop. In addition, there will be a 50-50 drawing, raffle baskets, and prizes for the team who gets the most donations, the team with the highest score, and the team with the lowest score. (Yep, you read that right!) We have room for 24 teams, so ...
The Alpena County Library’s George R. and Edith Angell Cook Special Collections Department will host State Maritime Archaeologist Wayne R. Lusardi on Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Stillion Conference Room. Lusardi will tell the story of Tuskegee Airman Lt. Frank H. Moody, who was killed on April 11, 1944 when his Bell P-39Q Airacobra crashed into lower Lake Huron. Lusardi has led expeditions to the site for over a decade and will share the history of World War II training over the Great Lakes, the details of the accident, and the ongoing work to preserve this important piece of history ...
