Farmers markets support local growers, offer healthier options Several Manistee-area organizations believe that the fresher the food, the healthier and tastier it is. That’s what’s behind the Manistee County Live Well program’s 100 garden campaign and also the push to promote and expand area farmers markets. This year there are more farmers markets than ever [...]
Hello! I hope everyone is having a great Saturday. I had a very different week. I was actually gone the first part of the week. I was at a conference with a large group of people who do the same job as I do at the senior center. Wow, I sure learned a lot of [...]
By Lovina Eicher The Amish Cook 7 a.m. and the children just left for school. My husband, Joe, has been at work several hours already and daughter Elizabeth left for her job at 5:15 a.m. Joe tilled part of the garden last night. Daughter Susan, 17, and I, want to get some garden planted today. [...]
By Sarah Howard Program Coordinator MANISTEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING WEEKLY NEWSLETTER Hola! What a festive week at the Manistee County Senior Center. We started the week off with our first Cinco de Mayo celebration. Fun, food, music and piñatas — everyone celebrated together with some people coming dressed for the occasion and [...]
Codden family is looking forward to a normal Mother’s Day Last year Janeen Codden really enjoyed the huge Mother’s Day breakfast delivered to her bedside by her 8-year-old daughter Raegan. No one could blame her if she savored those moments in Manistee more than the other millions of moms enjoying similar Mother’s Day treats that [...]
MANISTEE — When most people see a vacant historical building, they think that it’s interesting and go on with their lives. When Sue and Brian Hamilton saw the building at 284 First St. in Manistee, they saw their future. The couple saw what would be the perfect building for a child development center in Manistee. [...]
By Lovina Eicher The Amish Cook We are having cold, rainy weather again. Monday was nice and sunny so we could get the laundry all dried. We are out of coal so hopefully it won’t get too cold yet. It looks like it will be a late spring. So different from the early spring [...]
By Sarah Howard Program Coordinator MANISTEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING WEEKLY NEWSLETTER Good morning! I had another busy week at the Manistee County Senior Center. On Monday we had a Hawaiian luau. What fun! You would never guess you were at the senior center; it was decorated and looked like we were in [...]
By Sarah Howard Program Coordinator MANISTEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING WEEKLY NEWSLETTER I want to tell you about my wonderful week at the senior center. We had the “Over 50 Dance” on Saturday and it was a blast. We had the three Gs working in our favor, great food, great company and great music. [...]
Recently, I was lucky enough to obtain a bottle of the latest Founder’s release called “Doom.” Doom is the Founder’s Brewing Company’s most recent offering in their Backstage Series that has included such wonderful brews as Bolt Cutter, and Frangelic Mountain Brown. Doom is described by the Founder’s team as “ … a bourbon-barrel-aged Imperial [...]