5 YEARS AGO October 17, 2019
The issue of how to protect Christmas Cove’s eroding beach and parking lot has returned to the front burner for Leelanau Township board members and residents. At its regular meeting in September, the Leelanau Township Board approved the park and recreation committee’s recommendation to commission KAL Excavating in Omena, in an amount not to exceed $5,000, to place tree stumps in the embankment to Christmas Cove’s parking lot, where township Supervisor Doug Scripps said the erosion is most severe. *** A pilot program to provide locally grown food to public school students with roots in Leelanau County was one of the 147 line item vetoes signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Championed by local lawmakers, some $2 million was included for the project in the budget passed by the State Legislature. Some public schools such as Glen Lake plan to continue offering fresh foods from local farmers in hopes that the funding will be restored.
10 YEARS AGO October 16, 2014
A local organization that feeds hungry people may be getting its $29,000 in 2-percent tribal grant money after all. Or not. The Leelanau Township Board of Trustees on Tuesday voted 5-0 to approve a contract with Leelanau Christian Neighbors (LCN) that would have the township acting as a pass-through agency for money from the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. But that contract is contingent upon approval from the township attorney. *** Although heavy rains have resulted in flooding throughout Leelanau County, the situation has become so dire around Little Traverse Lake that an emergency meeting was held Tuesday afternoon to figure out what might be done to alleviate the problem. Just halfway through October, seven inches of rain have been recorded for the month at a National Weather Service volunteer station in Maple City. Normally, less than two inches is expected by Oct. 15. *** A student-led group focused on driving safely is being organized at Glen Lake School in the aftermath of a horrific accident that claimed two lives. The Glen Lake Board of Education endorsed Monday night an effort by students and other community members to explore the topic of driver safety. Before the end of the month students and secondary Principal Konrad Molter are expected to meet with Jennifer Ritter, a district parent and injury/prevention coordinator for Michigan State University Extension/Munson Trauma.
25 YEARS AGO
October 21, 1999
Construction is expected to begin next month on a $3.7 million Grand Traverse Band Civic Center on an 88-acre parcel near the tribe’s Medicine Lodge off Stallman Road in Peshawbestown. The 25,000 square-foot facility will house a gymnasium, fitness center and a running track. *** The Leland third grader who received a new lease on life with a heart transplant four weeks ago is recuperating. Stefani Pentiuk, 8, is expected to return home to Leland around Christmas. *** The cost of a gallon of milk has gone over $3, sparked by a drought in the eastern United States.
50 YEARS AGO
October 17, 1974
One of the newest state parks in Michigan is the 410-acre Leelanau State Park on Cathead Bay north or Northport. The park consists of a 45-acre developed portion, known as the Northport Unit, on the tip of the Leelanau Peninsula and including the former Grand Traverse Lighthouse and the remainder of the Park. *** The House of Representatives in Washington D.C. was slated to vote on a Senate-passed measure to raise the ceiling of Congressional appropriations to $57.7 million on Wednesday afternoon. That was the message received by the Leelanau Enterprise from John Hawley and aide to Congressman Guy VanderJagt.
75 YEARS AGO October 14, 1948
Fifteen Leelanau County boosters and three from Benzie last Friday night descended on the annual meeting of the upper Peninsula Development bureau at Escanaba with plans for two state carboat routes from lower to Upper Peninsula. As the result of a get-together at the meeting delegations from the two counties agreed to pool their efforts for both carboat lines and to ask Grand Traverse County to join. *** Milford Schneider, of Lake Leelanau, is a thorough young man. Sunday afternoon he was driving a car belonging to his father, Fred Schneider, near Shalda’s store at North Unity when in trying to avoid a backing car he skidded on the wet road. He hit (1) a plow, (2) a rowboat, (3) a repair shop. Car, plow, boat and shop were badly smashed. Schneider was unhurt. Ted Grant towed the wrecked car to Traverse City.
100 YEARS AGO October 16, 1924
We acknowledge a pleasant call from Capt. and Mrs. O.E. Wilbur of Charlevoix and Mr. and Mrs. C. Wrisley of Northport this week. Captain Wilbur is the oldest licensed Captain on the Great Lakes and best known. *** Mr. and Mrs. William Buckler and family motored to Mt. Pleasant last Saturday where they visited their son Roy who is attending school at that place.
