And welcome back to mix 93.
And here we are with the very first bulldog bite of the season.
We have Chris Solani here in the studio with us today.
How you doing?
Morning, Sam.
I'm doing well.
Thank you.
How are you doing?
Well, I'm doing well.
I guess it's been about three months already.
Yeah, you know, time clicked by pretty fast.
A very busy summer.
You know, I made the comments to our staff during their professional in-service days last week.
It seemed like the month of August disappeared right before us and throughout the whole context of our late summer.
And so, yeah, it crept up on us quick.
And here we are, first official week of school.
And missed a couple, perhaps, Wednesdays that we typically have in August.
But appreciate you having us back on the air today.
It's a pleasure to have you.
How were the kids acclimating to the new school year?
Well, you know, being day two, I know there was a lot of smiles yesterday.
I was in both buildings, Barquel and of course, high school, middle school.
We have some work that have gone on over the summer with our first
package of our bond work moving forward with our new entries and our systems of getting in and out of the buildings.
And so, you know, again, just the fact of getting the students back in the desks, in the classrooms with the teachers and the staff, you know, it's a good thing.
Like I said, a lot of smiles, a lot of excitement.
I'm looking forward to a really good year.
All right, that is excellent.
So what else is going on?
Any special things?
Well, you know, I think we have Coach Brendan LeClaire on us with us this morning.
Coach
LeClaire, how are you doing?
Doing great as far as how you guys doing
Doing good, thanks coach.
So as I just referenced, typically we get on late August normally in the last couple of years and we talk with our head coaching staff for our fall sports and lo and behold, we're now in September.
We've got a couple games in our belt, but we have our new head varsity coach with us, Brennan Leclerc.
Coach, what I'm going to ask you to do first is kind of give us the 30,000 foot of Brennan Leclerc, your background.
I know I think we've had you on in the past, but just to refresh our audience out.
there about who you are and how you tie into Hancock football and of course your role as the new adversity coach.
Yeah sounds good.
I went to high school in Dollar Bay and I got the luxury of playing you know Hancock football through the co-op there which I was very thankful for and you know played all my high school years at Hancock and then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to play at Michigan Tech and
Got a lot of great experience there for four and a half seasons.
And then once I got out of the attack, the job opportunity came up for JV head coach, Hancock.
And, you know, I hopped on it and was there for the last two years.
And then, you know, when the opportunity arises for the Farsi head and coaching job of Hancock, you know, threw my head in the ring and was lucky enough to get it.
Absolutely.
And of course, you just referenced Brendan being a member of our co-op schools with Hancock, of course, Dollar Bay.
Chastle and Jeffers are the four schools who are part of our co-op and and you were you had a pretty good run a good pretty good heyday there during your 10 year in high school with the program had some Some good numbers had some good athletes had some really exceptional wins and opportunities to play at a real high level And certainly we're looking forward to that opportunity on your direction now with the program to continue Where you were as a player within our program and so going into this season, you know, let's talk a little bit about the month
of August you know going into pre-camp kind of some thoughts that you had about our personnel some of the work that you had done over the course of the spring and the summer to get some of our student athletes out and talk about the roster a little bit and some some of the expectations you had going into the season.
Yeah so one of the big things when you know I was able to get the job in the spring was you know recruiting at all the co-op schools because I mean when I was playing we had tons of numbers from all schools
And, you know, it really helped us, especially just with depth and depth.
And, you know, just, there's a lot of athletes at these schools, so you got to make sure we're getting out to them.
So throughout the spring and summer, you know, constantly being on the guys and making sure they know, even if it's their first year, we're fine.
Hey, just come out and give it a shot and you'll have fun.
And as the summer progressed, you know, we were getting, you know, good success there and getting a lot of guys that maybe have
played in the past but you know maybe took a year or two off and you know they started coming back out and we were looking pretty good and for number-wise going into ball camp and uh a lot of these great athletes come from schools like we have you know a handful from we have quite a bit from Jeffers quite a bit from Hancock you know we got a couple here and there from Dollar Bay and Chaffville which is good to see and you know a few of those big names you know we got like Levi Kennedon who's
great at baseball and other sports too, but he came back out.
Max Nordstrom, he's a junior, he came back out from Jeffers.
And then just a few guys that maybe haven't came out, like Logan Larson from Hancock, he's a senior and Benny Ben-Karen and he's a senior as well from Hancock.
And it's nice when you do get some of that experience with Ben-Karen and Jasper Towels, Carter Warry.
handful of those guys that have been through the program to help these newer guys out and everyone's picking up real quick and you know so it was a little learning curve in those first couple weeks of fall camp but the guys are picking up quick and you know things are looking better, better week to week and guys are getting more comfortable with each other and you know we just got to keep that progression going.
Yeah, absolutely.
So, you know, with that progression and going to the fall camp, you know, not only working with the student athletes, you had to assemble your own staff with regard to, you know, the assistant coach for the varsity and the JV coaches, which in essence are also assistance within the program in support of you.
You want to talk a little about your staff?
Yeah, I got a great staff and my
He's been great.
I've been working with him on the JV level the last two seasons.
So, you know, that was a pretty easy decision to bring him up to varsity.
You know, and he's great.
And we always liked that talk football and all the deals that we can use.
And he's a great guy to work with.
And then for the JV staff, you know, I had knowledge of some coaches and previous coaches of mine, Ben Tampas, loads of experience.
He was my football coach.
Hancock when I was going through the JV and middle school programs.
I had him in track at Dollar Bay.
He had loads of experience that we pulled from and you know a lot of things that you know maybe you just skip along.
He brings up and you know gives you his knowledge and then obviously I got my younger brother as a JV assistant too so he always has great ideas.
He has great experience in football going through the Hancock program as well and then
He was lucky enough to at least do a year over at Michigan Tech football, so he's a good player.
You know, and all these guys play different positions than I did in high school.
So, in their perspective on things, and you know, just make sure we're at a broad sense over all positions for the program and at all levels, so we can make sure we're given the best opportunity for our kids.
Absolutely.
So, you know, getting that preseason work with both the student athletes as well as your staff, getting into fall camp, going through the rigmarole of the early season process, the two days, the long work hours, the hot, the heat in August, although maybe we didn't have as much as perhaps in years past in August.
But in any event, you leading up to the first contest where we're now two games into the season.
You know, we started with a scrimmage over at West Iron.
And then our first game of the year over at Iron Mountain, and then last week with West Iron, can you talk about the lead-up to that?
Some of your expectations, whether or their current roster, some of our veterans you referenced, and then how they, as well as the team, has performed over the course of the last two games, and then looking ahead to our next contest this week.
Yeah, so in all camps, the guys were always wanted to be there.
try to make it practice every time off the people still got work and stuff so we were don't make it sure we're communicating with them and make it sure we can get everybody at practice that we could but everyone was excited to be there everyone was excited about football so you know that to the team was you know we were ready to play and they're excited and they were etching to get to that first scrimmage and still up to that point i i didn't know how we were going to do against another team yet we hadn't there's almost a whole new group
So we didn't know where we were going to be at.
And we went to that scrimmage.
Some great competition between three other schools.
And we did pretty well.
So I was pretty happy with our performance there.
So that gave us more confidence.
And I think the fellas, you know, starting to get back into this mindset that football is fun.
And, you know, we want to be here.
Was good going into that week one.
Obviously, Iron Mountain historic program there.
They got a good squad, especially this year.
But there were still opportunities where we probably should have been much closer in that game.
Obviously, taking away those turnovers, you know, not throwing as many picks and, you know, just take care of the self-supposed mistakes on the higher mountain game, you know, would have helped us, you know, be a little bit more closer than the score showed.
But there were still good stuff to pull from that.
And then going into West Iron, you know, we wanted to bounce back game.
So, you know,
really take care of the details fixed in what we did in the first game and uh... what you know if we we had a great game that second game and you know took care of the details and turn the ball over remove the ball on offense get momentum and then get stopped on defense getting take away from defense great to see you know and a lot of the names you're hearing from these interceptions to touchdown these are the guys have been in the program two three years and then
You know, now we're starting to sprinkle in the guys that, you know, maybe it's the first year coming.
So you could see they're getting more and more comfortable as the weeks go.
Now on to Mastic, you know, we're, we're starting, we're studying hard and, you know, they run the T formation, which we don't see very often.
So that's going to, you know, we're figuring out how to combat that.
But, uh, you know, the boys feel confident in what we're doing and you know, we're going to run our stuff on offense and, you know, just hold them.
take away their strengths on defense.
So, you know, they're a good opponent.
They've, you know, they competed against Lawns last week and they got to win their week one.
So, you know, we can't look over anybody, but, you know, we're confident in what we're doing.
And, you know, as long as we're taking care of the stuff we need to, you know, hopefully we can get that score where we want it.
You know, and I just don't, I mean, I'm thinking about this.
We did reference this back in the spring, but just for our audience's information, you know, when we're talking about
the teams we've played so far.
And then coming up, we have Iron Mountain, West Iron, and now Manistique.
These are teams that have not been traditional to our schedule the last several years, albeit we have played Iron Mountain as a crossover game.
So in reference, there's two divisions of the West Pack.
And so there's a larger division.
So the schools that are made up of the largest population of student population versus the schools of the smaller ones.
And so for the last several years, we were part because of our co-op.
with our four school co-op.
We've been placed in that upper division or that large school division.
And in this year, we kind of have a hybrid, but we're...
We're aligning and playing more of the smaller division schools.
And that's where the Iron Mountain, the West Irons, again, was a traditional member of the Westpac.
We used to play every year.
And then that changed a few years ago.
Manastique has not been a typical opponent of ours.
And then looking ahead with regard to kind of how that our schedule lines up, it's going to be a blend now of both those larger school division opponents as well as lower school division opponents.
You want to talk about the remainder of the
schedule and perhaps some of your, uh, expectations or hopes moving forward.
Yeah.
So, um, you know, we take it week by week.
Uh, we got Matt Mastique this week, you know, so I make sure we take care of business this week first and then, you know, looking forward, uh, we play Gwen and then we start getting into a real, you know, start planning those bigger schools, you know, of our schedule where we got, you know, a real good team in the Ghani and Kingsford.
They're both.
Real established programs and, you know, tough games and hopefully we can, you know, compete against those guys, you know, as we have in the past.
But, um, and then after that, we got Bark River, who, you know, just made a great run last year in the smaller 11 man division.
And then, uh, then we end the season with Watson Houghton.
So the remaining of the schedule, there's no pushovers.
You know, we have to take every one week by week and, you know, there's nobody we're looking over.
Everyone from here on out is, you know, a solid team.
So that just takes the care of what we need to do and, you know, let the play safe for itself.
And yeah, the schedule, it's a little different this year.
You know, it's nice to get a little blend of the smaller schools and big schools.
Obviously, it's much different from what I've played.
And there's a few schools we don't play anymore, like Hurley and Lake London.
But, you know, we take it year by year and just make sure we're focused on the team we got at hand this week.
Absolutely well coach.
It's been fun to see been down.
Obviously I came down and seen some practices here in the early part of the season in August and then looking at the numbers and the like you reference the excitement and enthusiasm that the young man have in the program now certainly a really good start to the season.
One in one right now going into this week number three.
I want to wish you the best of luck with the team and then looking forward to continued success and development of the program under your leadership
coach.
Thanks for having me on, guys.
All right, thank you.
Yep, it
was a pleasure to have
you.
And so, what else would you like to discuss?
Well, you know, right now, just a couple notes.
I referenced when we first got on some of the bond work that has taken place with our new bond initiatives.
First package has been...
About 99.9% completed and that was with our new entryways at both Barkelo and the high school middle school.
And so I just want to put out there for our listening audience just a little bit different process now and trying to get into the building.
And so what has happened is that each campus we've extended the foyer getting into the building.
And then it's an enclosed area where now anybody who is going to visit the campus must go directly into the offices.
And so when you get into the new entryways, there'll be a little ring buzzer system that you'll hit
the button and each of our secretaries at both Barquel and Ms.
Tammy and Ms.
Trina at the high school will buzz visitors in and you'll be directed into the office at that point.
Previously you know when people got buzzed in they'd have direct access into the general commons area of each building and so now this is another security feature so end safety feature that we've implemented aid to provide
a little more weather climate involved.
space for people when they come in from outside the elements, getting into then to the area where they can buzz into the office.
And then they'll be going into the office space, signing in or waiting there within the office for their respective students or to be able to manage where they need to attend at that point.
So just want to put that out there that, you know, there's no longer direct access into the building, got to go through the offices.
And so there's a little bit of a learning curve and patience to that.
But I think when people visit each of the campuses now,
be pleasantly surprised at kind of how they're being welcomed into the buildings now and then have access into the office space.
So that's just a nugget to touch on.
And then what we'll do is I'll continue to add some updates along the way here where the next couple shows and bring on some of our other coaches and some of our new staff perhaps that we have that we want to provide some awareness out there to our Bulldog community.
Hey, that sounds really exciting.
Can't wait to hear from all the coaches.
Good to know how all the sports are going.
Yep,
absolutely.
So we'll look forward to the next score on Sam.
All right.
Well, this has been the Bulldog Bite here on Mixed 93.
Thank you for having been here.
Yeah, absolutely.
Sam, thank you as always to the to yourself and the station as well as I believe still.
Gino's is our sponsor.
Honestly, I'm not sure.
I should really look into that.
We're going to look into that because, hey, I like announcing the fact that they do, they support us, and then certainly we'll see if they continue with that opportunity with the radio station.
Well, yeah, we never heard so thank Genos anyway.
Yep, absolutely.
Thank you, Genos.
And welcome back to Mixed93, and it's time for Hancock Happenings.
Todd Gast, how you doing?
I'm doing great.
How you doing?
I'm okay.
Happy Wednesday.
That's right.
It is a beaut out there.
What a beautiful day to be outside.
I kind of wish we could play a little bit of a hooky today.
But here we are, we're indoors and we're in the end of summer happenings here in Hancock and we want to talk about our Thursdays here in the city.
We have quite a fun Thursday lined up every week here in the city of Hancock, which is the all new Hancock Thursday farmers market, which features over 30 rotating vendors this year that makes the Hancock Thursday market your choice for high quality.
and baked goods, and then also with some gluten-free options in there as well.
The freshest produce, and I talk about fresh picked, it's usually on that day.
So if you're looking for your fresh produce, come to the Hancock Thursday market, that is tomorrow from two until 6 p.m.
You can also find bagels and clothing mending and quail eggs and more.
So come on down, if you believe in...
keeping your dollars local and building our own local economy, these are the ways you do that.
Support our local businesses like our farmers and our cottage industry folk, because they are our local businesses.
They are part of our community.
So get your family's groceries every Thursday on Quincy Green and also on Saturday.
Saturday is from 10 till noon and Thursday is two until 6 p.m.
We also have game night on Thursday.
Thursday Thursday evenings here in downtown Hancock and you can find game night every Thursday at Casey bonkers and they're at 119 Quincy Street every Thursday for game night until 8 p.m.
So they're open late.
They've got board games They've got a ton of fun games that you and your family can play.
They've got also some great drink choices there as well So Casey bonkers is where you're gonna want to be for fun on Thursdays and that they are open until 8 p
and then you can take a hop skip and a jump right down to New Teenies Supper Club and they are at 321 Quincy Street.
You can grab a bite to eat, get that energy, get that brain going for trivia night and that begins at 830 and that is every Thursday at New Teenies.
We also love to talk about the arts here in Hancock.
We really love our art scene here and we have fall classes at the Copper Country Community Art Center.
registered now those fall fall classes are available and you can go on their website and that is www.coppercountryarts.com and that is Copper Country
coppercountryarts.com for their fall classes.
We've got our Finlandia Art Gallery Sámi exhibition through September 23rd.
And this exhibit consists of two actual shows that are all known from the Sámi Circle North America.
And you'll see Erika Larson's Walking with Reindeer and Sámi Herders in Alaska, as well as artifacts from Sámi Circle North America's archives.
So what a great opportunity and great experience to be able to go to the Finnish American Heritage Center right here in downtown Hancock at the Finlandia Art Gallery.
These shows are through September 23rd.
You've got a little bit of time.
You were already in the first week and boy, these weeks are just flying by.
So get on over to the Finnish American Heritage Center at the Finlandia Art Gallery for the Sami exhibition.
We also have our bright spot Hancock.
We're calling all artists for this fall and winter art installation in downtown Hancock.
We are planning this art installation right now.
We are choosing three to five word slogans and or phrases that we want artists to be able to replicate onto a two foot pre-treated wooden disc.
And these discs will then be installed throughout the city of Hancock.
on our light poles to create bright spots during those kind of gloomy gray days that we have here in the Copper Country.
And you can go and find your light pole that has wonderful art on it, that has bright spots for our community.
So if you are interested in painting one of these discs, you can email us at city of Hancock.com.
We need your phone number on that email and we will then be...
Selecting artists that will be part of this once again the bright spot Hancock this fall in winter We've just had a fantastic celebration with our end of summer celebration here in downtown Hancock that was this past Saturday The weather could not have been more perfect for us to all be outside It was just in the 70s with a slight breeze.
There was hardly a cloud in the sky So what a fantastic day that we had we have our
pickleball.
doubles tournament winners here for you.
We had over 20, we had actually 20 teams participating this year at Lorngrove Park.
And our men's doubles division winners were Robert Steros and Luke Luskin from CaliMet and Houghton respectively.
They took first place.
Cyril Fox, Petrov and Krista Kleiman of Houghton took second place.
Joe and Adam Ingersoll of Madison, Wisconsin took third place.
And in the women's division, we had winners
We're Patty blue wet and Angela
Davis from Marquette.
They took first place.
Julie Lang and Nora Tanimi from Twin Lakes.
They took second place.
Amy Granroth, Joy Zimnick from Chassel and Calumet respectively took third place.
We want to thank Mary Kaminski for handling all of our tournaments up at Lauren Grove this year.
She did a fantastic job.
She also did the Kribbage tournament at New Teenies and the winners of the Kribbage
Tournament were Randy Ortele and Amy Keenem.
And we, again, thank you, Mary, for all the work that you did.
We cannot do this without you.
So way to go, Mary.
And also our Cornhole Tournament, that was handled by Tara Doolong and Jody Mickish.
And they helped run our Cornhole Tournament on Quincy Green this year.
And the winners were Steve and Rich Simmons.
They took first place and Eric Strom and Kirk Sorenen.
They took second place.
We had an amazing selection of music throughout the day.
Tony Sari and her friend were the opening act and then we had Maggie Brotherton, which was fantastic.
She did late afternoon and then we had Chad Borgen and the collective.
They were doing our street dance.
So we went right from the day part to which we had over 30 vendors that were selling their wares on Quincy Green.
We had bouncy houses.
We had food vendors.
We want to think.
Griffin calf favorite for being their uncle's diner had fantastic pasties and sweets.
We had, uh, res Robbins fry bread.
We also had fresh coast drinks there.
What a huge hit they were.
Uh, so everyone did really, really well.
Uh, we also want to thank the Hancock business association for handling our ping pong ball drop.
They dropped hundreds of prizes down a ping pong ball, uh, that, uh, there was a number that was associated with a prize.
We did a kid's drop and.
an adult drop right on Quincy Green from the top of our 80-foot aerial fire truck.
And we want to thank the Hancock City Fire Department for doing that and also hosting the beer garden and Chad Borgen and the Collective for our street dance.
Plus, we had our finale with our laser light show.
That was amazing.
It was themed on the 250th birthday of our country.
It was very patriotic with a lot of other fun music and show options there.
So we hope everyone
Everyone enjoyed the entire End of Summer celebration that we had.
It was all day on Saturday.
We had probably close to 2,000 people that came through all day long.
So thank you all for taking the time and spending part of our End of Summer celebration with us right here in downtown Hancock.
We also have the Hancock Rotary World of Wine Tasting.
That is next week, and that is Friday, September 18th, and that is at 7 p.m.
I don't know.
actually, is it next week?
I think maybe we have, it is the ninth today, so yeah, we've got nine more days left, right?
So it is next Friday, and that's at 7 p.m.
Boy, that is just sneaking right up on us.
So the world of wine tasting is our theme for this year, and we're having wines selected already.
We just edited the wines that will be part of this tasting.
Thank you to Geno's Restaurant for doing these small plate pairings that will be a part of this awesome event.
We are going to be featuring wines from the Ritaggio Imports, and these wines will have never been tasted outside of the UP, so they will be debuted at this wine tasting.
So if you want to be part of that wine tasting, you must find a Rotarian, or you can call us at City Hall at 906-482-2720.
It's $75 per person, $525 per table, that's for eight people.
Tickets are going fast.
So give us a call once again 906-482-2720 or email city at cityofhandcock.com.
That is city at cityofhandcock.com and or find one of those Rotarians out there.
We're also doing a silent auction.
If you have not donated yet a prize to this, please do so.
Again, I just read off those numbers, but if you want to hear them one more time, 906-482-2720.
We'd love everybody in the community to get involved in the Hancock Rotary's biggest fundraiser of the year.
That is coming up Friday, September 18th at 7 p.m.
And it's gonna be here before we know it.
All right.
So that is a lot of stuff happening in Hancock.
Absolutely.
A lot of exciting
stuff.
And thank you for your time.
Of course, Inyo.
I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your summer out there and be sure to enjoy those Hancock happenings.
And welcome back to Mixed93, and it's time for Hancock Happenings.
Todd Gast, how you doing?
I'm doing great.
How you doing?
I'm okay.
Happy Wednesday.
That's right.
It is a beaut out there.
What a beautiful day to be outside.
I kind of wish we could play a little bit of a hooky today.
But here we are, we're indoors and we're in the end of summer happenings here in Hancock and we want to talk about our Thursdays here in the city.
We have quite a fun Thursday lined up every week here in the city of Hancock, which is the all new Hancock Thursday farmers market, which features over 30 rotating vendors this year that makes the Hancock Thursday market your choice for high quality.
and baked goods, and then also with some gluten-free options in there as well.
The freshest produce, and I talk about fresh picked, it's usually on that day.
So if you're looking for your fresh produce, come to the Hancock Thursday market, that is tomorrow from two until 6 p.m.
You can also find bagels and clothing mending and quail eggs and more.
So come on down, if you believe in...
keeping your dollars local and building our own local economy, these are the ways you do that.
Support our local businesses like our farmers and our cottage industry folk, because they are our local businesses.
They are part of our community.
So get your family's groceries every Thursday on Quincy Green and also on Saturday.
Saturday is from 10 till noon and Thursday is two until 6 p.m.
We also have game night on Thursday.
Thursday Thursday evenings here in downtown Hancock and you can find game night every Thursday at Casey bonkers and they're at 119 Quincy Street every Thursday for game night until 8 p.m.
So they're open late.
They've got board games They've got a ton of fun games that you and your family can play.
They've got also some great drink choices there as well So Casey bonkers is where you're gonna want to be for fun on Thursdays and that they are open until 8 p
and then you can take a hop skip and a jump right down to New Teenies Supper Club and they are at 321 Quincy Street.
You can grab a bite to eat, get that energy, get that brain going for trivia night and that begins at 830 and that is every Thursday at New Teenies.
We also love to talk about the arts here in Hancock.
We really love our art scene here and we have fall classes at the Copper Country Community Art Center.
registered now those fall fall classes are available and you can go on their website and that is www.coppercountryarts.com and that is Copper Country
coppercountryarts.com for their fall classes.
We've got our Finlandia Art Gallery Sámi exhibition through September 23rd.
And this exhibit consists of two actual shows that are all known from the Sámi Circle North America.
And you'll see Erika Larson's Walking with Reindeer and Sámi Herders in Alaska, as well as artifacts from Sámi Circle North America's archives.
So what a great opportunity and great experience to be able to go to the Finnish American Heritage Center right here in downtown Hancock at the Finlandia Art Gallery.
These shows are through September 23rd.
You've got a little bit of time.
You were already in the first week and boy, these weeks are just flying by.
So get on over to the Finnish American Heritage Center at the Finlandia Art Gallery for the Sami exhibition.
We also have our bright spot Hancock.
We're calling all artists for this fall and winter art installation in downtown Hancock.
We are planning this art installation right now.
We are choosing three to five word slogans and or phrases that we want artists to be able to replicate onto a two foot pre-treated wooden disc.
And these discs will then be installed throughout the city of Hancock.
on our light poles to create bright spots during those kind of gloomy gray days that we have here in the Copper Country.
And you can go and find your light pole that has wonderful art on it, that has bright spots for our community.
So if you are interested in painting one of these discs, you can email us at city of Hancock.com.
We need your phone number on that email and we will then be...
Selecting artists that will be part of this once again the bright spot Hancock this fall in winter We've just had a fantastic celebration with our end of summer celebration here in downtown Hancock that was this past Saturday The weather could not have been more perfect for us to all be outside It was just in the 70s with a slight breeze.
There was hardly a cloud in the sky So what a fantastic day that we had we have our
pickleball.
doubles tournament winners here for you.
We had over 20, we had actually 20 teams participating this year at Lorngrove Park.
And our men's doubles division winners were Robert Steros and Luke Luskin from CaliMet and Houghton respectively.
They took first place.
Cyril Fox, Petrov and Krista Kleiman of Houghton took second place.
Joe and Adam Ingersoll of Madison, Wisconsin took third place.
And in the women's division, we had winners
We're Patty blue wet and Angela
Davis from Marquette.
They took first place.
Julie Lang and Nora Tanimi from Twin Lakes.
They took second place.
Amy Granroth, Joy Zimnick from Chassel and Calumet respectively took third place.
We want to thank Mary Kaminski for handling all of our tournaments up at Lauren Grove this year.
She did a fantastic job.
She also did the Kribbage tournament at New Teenies and the winners of the Kribbage
Tournament were Randy Ortele and Amy Keenem.
And we, again, thank you, Mary, for all the work that you did.
We cannot do this without you.
So way to go, Mary.
And also our Cornhole Tournament, that was handled by Tara Doolong and Jody Mickish.
And they helped run our Cornhole Tournament on Quincy Green this year.
And the winners were Steve and Rich Simmons.
They took first place and Eric Strom and Kirk Sorenen.
They took second place.
We had an amazing selection of music throughout the day.
Tony Sari and her friend were the opening act and then we had Maggie Brotherton, which was fantastic.
She did late afternoon and then we had Chad Borgen and the collective.
They were doing our street dance.
So we went right from the day part to which we had over 30 vendors that were selling their wares on Quincy Green.
We had bouncy houses.
We had food vendors.
We want to think.
Griffin calf favorite for being their uncle's diner had fantastic pasties and sweets.
We had, uh, res Robbins fry bread.
We also had fresh coast drinks there.
What a huge hit they were.
Uh, so everyone did really, really well.
Uh, we also want to thank the Hancock business association for handling our ping pong ball drop.
They dropped hundreds of prizes down a ping pong ball, uh, that, uh, there was a number that was associated with a prize.
We did a kid's drop and.
an adult drop right on Quincy Green from the top of our 80-foot aerial fire truck.
And we want to thank the Hancock City Fire Department for doing that and also hosting the beer garden and Chad Borgen and the Collective for our street dance.
Plus, we had our finale with our laser light show.
That was amazing.
It was themed on the 250th birthday of our country.
It was very patriotic with a lot of other fun music and show options there.
So we hope everyone
Everyone enjoyed the entire End of Summer celebration that we had.
It was all day on Saturday.
We had probably close to 2,000 people that came through all day long.
So thank you all for taking the time and spending part of our End of Summer celebration with us right here in downtown Hancock.
We also have the Hancock Rotary World of Wine Tasting.
That is next week, and that is Friday, September 18th, and that is at 7 p.m.
I don't know.
actually, is it next week?
I think maybe we have, it is the ninth today, so yeah, we've got nine more days left, right?
So it is next Friday, and that's at 7 p.m.
Boy, that is just sneaking right up on us.
So the world of wine tasting is our theme for this year, and we're having wines selected already.
We just edited the wines that will be part of this tasting.
Thank you to Geno's Restaurant for doing these small plate pairings that will be a part of this awesome event.
We are going to be featuring wines from the Ritaggio Imports, and these wines will have never been tasted outside of the UP, so they will be debuted at this wine tasting.
So if you want to be part of that wine tasting, you must find a Rotarian, or you can call us at City Hall at 906-482-2720.
It's $75 per person, $525 per table, that's for eight people.
Tickets are going fast.
So give us a call once again 906-482-2720 or email city at cityofhandcock.com.
That is city at cityofhandcock.com and or find one of those Rotarians out there.
We're also doing a silent auction.
If you have not donated yet a prize to this, please do so.
Again, I just read off those numbers, but if you want to hear them one more time, 906-482-2720.
We'd love everybody in the community to get involved in the Hancock Rotary's biggest fundraiser of the year.
That is coming up Friday, September 18th at 7 p.m.
And it's gonna be here before we know it.
All right.
So that is a lot of stuff happening in Hancock.
Absolutely.
A lot of exciting
stuff.
And thank you for your time.
Of course, Inyo.
I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your summer out there and be sure to enjoy those Hancock happenings.