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ALPENA – The Association of Lifelong Learners has released it schedule of events for next week. Below is more information aout them and a brief description of the events.
Food Co-op Monday will be held at 026 ACC Madeline Briggs Center from 1:30- 2:30 p.m.
The DDA & United Way of Northeast MI have received a grant from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to start an initiative to create an Alpena Food Co-op serving northeast Michigan. The presentation will explain what a food co-op is and why it is important to establish one in Alpena. A market feasibility study, pro forma and committee structure have been completed and the next step is membership and election of a Board of Directors.
Anne Gentry is the Executive Director of the City of Alpena's DDA. Target Board member, graduate of Brown University. Joseph Gentry is the Executive Director of the United Way of Northeast Michigan, Trustee Alpena Community College and fiduciary of the Northeast Michigan Healthy Food Initiative.
While best experienced in person, this presentation is also available via Zoom: Meeting ID: 862 2856 2237 Passcode: 223147
Providing a Strong Foundation for ACC Students is on Oct. 6, at the ACC Madeline Briggs Center 140 from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
Join Mary Eagan, executive director of the Alpena Community College Foundation, to learn how donors to the ACC Foundation make a tangible difference in students' lives beyond scholarship support. Mary will also talk about what types of scholarships are available and how you too can donate to or set up an ACC scholarship fund. Mary Eagan is a proud Alpena Community College alumna who began her journey at the college as a nontraditional student. After graduating, she went on to major in creative writing at the University of Iowa, where she earned a bachelor's degree, certificate in nonprofit management, and master's degree in strategic communication.
While best experienced in person, this presentation is also available via Zoom: Meeting ID: 863 5936 8183 Passcode: 245278
Writing Workshop is on Oct. 7, at the ACC Madeline Briggs Center from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
This writing workshop series focuses on writing, sharing, and feedback. Everyone has stories, some are told, some are written, and some, like memoirs, are written to be shared with others. Mary Ann Krajnik Crawford has been a personal journal writer and teacher of writing for many years.
Alpena Reminiscing will be on Oct.7, at the ACC Madeline Briggs Center 140 from 3:30 p.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Join Doug Pugh, Roger Bauer, and Doug Allyn at the "local" coffee shop (Briggs 140) to share memories of what Alpena was like a few years ago when these gentlemen were younger. Learn about soda fountains, bars, downtown shops, how many local groceries we had, the State Theatre Popcorn Lady, home milk deliveries, and what young citizens did for fun. These gentlemen have been friends since childhood, and this promises to be a very entertaining program.
Doug Pugh is a retired attorney and former Probate Court Judge. He enjoys travel, attending ALL programs, and writing articles for The Alpena News. Roger Bauer is an active attorney in Alpena, earned an Associate Degree from ACC, BA from MSU, and Law degree from Wayne State University. He has been licensed for 58 years. Doug Allyn is the author of 13 novels and more than 150 short stories internationally in five languages.
Training Dogs to Aid the Disabled is on Oct.8 at the ACC Madeline Briggs Center 140 from 1:30 p.m. until 2:30 p.m.
Most of us have known the pleasure of canine companionship. For disabled citizens, dogs can be much more than good buddies.
Dawn DeBruyn will tell us about her 13 years as a trainer preparing dogs to make a world of difference for their humans. Her dogs will demonstrate some of the skills they have learned. Dawn DeBruyn started her dog training for the disabled business after becoming disabled herself and at 50 learned the benefits of a service dog. She generally starts with young puppies but has trained older dogs as well.
Becoming an Oenophiliac One Tasting at a Time will be on Oct. 8 at 8121 E Grand Lake Road in Presque Isle. The event begins at 5 p.m. and last until 6:30 p.m.
Join in an enlightening and delightful tasting of five wines with a little conversation about each, and about wine in general. The philosophy behind the ever-evolving Birch Hill wine set is that — with more than 100,000 wineries around the world, most of which are small (producing 60,000 to 100,000 bottles per year); and easily 2000 (of 10,000 total) varietals of grapes used in wine, each translating the unique terroir in which it grows - we strive to learn about and oAer an eclectic, ever changing wines from small (non-industrial) wineries, every bottle of which is 'good'. After all, as people say, life is too short to drink bad wine! Please come taste for yourself. Food, cheeses etc. available for purchase to enjoy with the wines you taste.
Kris Fairey whose family has come to Grand Lake since 1924, moved to Presque Isle in 2021, then bought Birch Hill Grocery. She earned degrees in English (BA), Divinity (MDiv), History (MA), and Renaissance Studies and History, all from Yale, and spent the first forty years of adulthood in education (and raising three children). Kris says running the store has been perhaps the most creative, challenging, simply fun, endeavor, of any. And learning about and tasting the wine has been among the most enjoyable parts of it!