And here we are back on mix 93 and it's time for the Bulldog bite Chris Solani is here in the studios with us once again And how are you doing today?
Good morning Sam.
I'm doing very well.
Thank you for this fine Wednesday morning September the 16th Sun is shining.
It's very comfortable.
So yeah, absolutely glad to be here.
That's wonderful.
Haven't seen too much of the weather outside is a
Warm is a cold.
It's nice and I like it like just use the word comfortable.
So that's what's nice about it And I'll be and I still have a vest on this morning, but that's that's okay We're we're into that time of the freshness and the Christmas in the year when you wake up in the morning a little bit of dew frosting over so No, it's beautiful outside with the sun and so hopefully I'll continue to get more of this type of temperate climate for the next several weeks.
That'd be great
Yeah, hopefully so.
So what is going on over at Hancock?
Well, today we're going to talk about some updates, some announcements, and just some FYIs for our listening audience and for our Bulldog community.
I guess first and foremost what I want to do, and I know I've touched on this briefly, but I want to just kind of give people out there just some awareness pieces of our new staff this year that perhaps will be looked to have on the radio with us in the coming weeks with regard to just our general operations in the classrooms.
And so to start with, we're going to talk a little bit about BarCal.
And we do have some new staff in Barquel, predominantly our new teaching staff.
We have Ms.
Ailey Stuber.
She is new to our first grade.
And so we had last year, one of our longstanding teachers retire and Ailey has come in.
Ailey is a Hancock alum, married to a Hancock alum, so very proud of our Bulldogs, Ailey and Mr. Michael Stuber.
And so she's in the first grade and doing a wonderful job, an excellent teacher.
great representation of being that bulldog person that we look to aspire to with our students and young people who are growing up and looking to perhaps entering the teaching field.
She's a great role model in there.
Then we have a new fifth grade teacher, Miss Kyla Larson.
Miss Larson is a new teacher as well.
Just finishing up her degree, she did some student teaching here locally, worked with us from a long-term subposition and just very
decided to have her with us at the fifth grade level.
And she's working alongside Mr. Jack Johnson in the fifth grade.
And so from a team and other approach teaching concept, they're doing a wonderful job with the fifth graders thus far.
And then we also have, in rotation at the elementary, we have our new music teacher, our new band director and music instructor for the high school, middle school.
He is also the...
the lead teacher for all our music programming here in the district, Mr. Noah Nettle.
And so Noah is taking on the role of our elementary side of operations.
As many know, Mr. Bob Hilton is not currently with us.
He's still, I believe, and I could be mistaken now, but I think he's still down in Lorne, Michigan, working with some health components that many are aware about and not taking too much information or putting too much out there.
But Noah is in place.
to help cover that role and responsibility at the elementary setting.
Noah is a local, just graduated from Northern Michigan with his music band certification.
And so we're very excited to have him, a former student athlete in the area, attended Jeffers Gropa again locally.
So another great local product that we're very excited to have in our in our Bulldog community and working with our students and providing that great direction for their growth.
And again, he'll also be
managing our operations at the middle school and high school as well as our band and music director.
Moving up into the middle school, high school, we do have some other new faces that our students are going to get to know very well and are actually in that process of.
So we have Ms.
Hannah Alexander.
She's a new teacher with us.
I shouldn't say new.
She actually did her student teaching rotation while this is past semester in the spring, working with Mr. Matt Griffith, a great mentor.
She is a new middle school, high school social
studies teacher for us, very high achiever, tremendous accolades at Northern Michigan within her.
program of study in her discipline.
You know, one of the highest achieving students they had at Northern was recognized at several different levels with her prowess within the classroom and teaching, working alongside Mr. Griffith as well.
So exceptional young teacher, very, very excited to have her with us and she's going to do a tremendous job for our students in the middle school and high school.
Moving on, we do have Mr. Noah Earl.
I think I referenced Mr. Earl in our last radio show.
He is our new industrial arts teacher, and you know, the acronym is ICM, but now so ICBM, excuse me.
So industrial technology, construction.
management, building, trades, and manufacturing.
So from that standpoint, his profile within the middle school and high school is not only gonna be just woodshop and middle shop, but working alongside all components of what we'll call building systems, right?
And so he's got a plethora of background, fully certified within industrial technologies, was a contractor, worked for contractors, you know, has done a lot of different skill sets.
And we're gonna be implementing some
new curriculum under his guidance as well to fully vet that building system component as well.
So, you know, when it comes to HVAC technologies and things to that alike, we're going to be bringing those in for him to be able to offer to our students.
And along the way, also get some credentialing, that skill development that, you know,
prospective employers locally won't have to spend time helping train those students when they want to enter the workforce.
So I'm very excited about Mr. Earl.
Very excited about his program.
I also referenced, I think I recall, a partnership we have with the city now with 7-Eleven Water Street.
And if I'm redundant, I apologize, but this is just a great opportunity for our students for doing some renovation work within his program.
So our upper division students within his program will be working down at 7-Eleven.
They are currently working on
on concepts and ideas about a plan of action that they feel they can accommodate.
And then that'll be presented to the city, Ms.
Mary Babcox, the manager, and the city council in October.
And so that's up.
a process right now they're going through and looking forward to that, again, that partnership in which our students are going to get some vital experience in how to renovate and all those critical elements of home structure and in improvement.
So very excited about that with Mr. Earl and his program.
So just to touch a little bit on our new staff, I don't believe I'm forgetting anybody from a new staff standpoint.
This year, we did have some restrictions so we didn't replace some of our teacher.
openings but we did replace those critical elements I just referenced with the teachers here and so again very excited that they're going to be part of our, they are part of our community now and they are being able to be working alongside and helping educate our students in the learning environments that they each host in respective barcale or high school, middle school.
Okay jumping a little bit a couple
news and noteworthy items.
First, we're gonna start unpacking some data points and getting them out to other public a little bit more.
Meaning, you know, how do our students achieve?
And what are our achievement rates in the public schools of Hancock?
And then how do we help promote that and demonstrate the successes of our students?
So right now, I think most people know that, you know, the state testing windows.
occur basically in the spring, so typically in April.
And then we don't get a lot of that information, a lot of data point until the end of summer or the early part of the school year that following year.
And so we're right now just getting that information from the MSTEPs, the PSATs and the SATs.
And we're going to be throwing that information out and sharing that with the public to really show how we are doing in the classroom and in achievement for our students and just a couple nuggets I'm going to put out there right now.
You know, at the elementary level there's a
There's a significant push and awareness about literacy and mathematics in the state of Michigan, and for that matter, across the entire nation.
And so there is an emphasis from the Michigan Department of Education all the way down, and we'll count in our legislative bodies as well, and how we need to be better at supporting achievement by our students.
And so just the two pieces of information I'm gonna share now with regard to math, as this just came out recently,
So at the third and fourth grade level, these are two critical grades in which there are markers that the state uses, and for that matter, again, the national body uses.
And for math, the state averages for math achievement for third and fourth grade respectively are just around 40%.
40% at the third grade level, a little bit higher at the fourth grade level.
Locally, the average for the ISD is right around 50%.
So 50% for, I think it's 51.9% of third grade and then 50% roughly speaking at the fourth grade.
Well, this past year, our third and fourth grade respectively achieved 67% and 60% of proficient achievement.
And so that's exceptional scores when it comes to the average.
And so we are very proud of that.
We are leading in a lot of ways locally with regard to our student achievement.
in these indicators.
And so we're going to start pushing this a little bit more, again, showing and demonstrating the value of the education and learning environment at both BarCal Elementary, our middle school and high school, because that's important, right?
And we know when it comes to how and what we want our students to look like, what a bulldog is and represents.
This is the beginning of those pieces of getting that full.
component of education and that learning that's so critical to today's students.
And so we're very proud of it.
And then like I said, we're gonna be getting that out and pushing that information a little bit more out on the socials.
So stay tuned for that.
And yeah, we're very proud.
And what are the socials?
Well, again, social media content.
So our Facebook page, our Instagram page, our website for sure.
And so those are, you know, again, my technical fluency isn't great.
So, but those are what I'm going to do.
And, you know, we have some individuals on both campuses that take care of getting a lot of information out as well.
Ms.
Trina Barrett, the high school middle school, our secretary does a wonderful job in supporting and developing that content.
We did have Bob Hilton in working at the elementary.
We have another person in place currently to help with.
that so it's a little bit slower than we'd want again front end of the year a lot of things going on and so we're you know building that content and we'll be pushing it out shortly.
Another news and noteworthy piece that I just wanted to throw it there because this is an initiative that our athletic director Mr. Ryan Tolles helped establish and put together yesterday.
Yesterday, Tuesday, the U.S.
Navy was able to present to our high school students about teamwork and leadership skills.
So our high school students in the gymnasium during our fourth period got to be involved with our Navy.
shipmen who came in to talk with them.
And then they had lunch with them in the cafeteria.
Great opportunity for engagement with our students and our Navy representatives.
And then today, they are having a student athlete team building and leadership exercise at Connenfield.
And so this is another way in which our students, now be it,
albeit they're student athletes, but our students have an opportunity to engage with leadership models and mentors that come in and do some training aspects, whether students, you know, some of it, you know, people hear this, but they're, you know, not.
it's not too extreme, but a lot of the different things that our Navy SEALs do as far as training and team building aspects, they're going to employ those with our students today down at Condon, and hopefully it'll be a wonderful experience for them to be able to get that mentorship and that...
influenced by the heroes and role models that we have within our armed forces who deal with teamwork leadership on a daily and then have to represent that at all points in walks in life.
So a great opportunity for our student athletes to be involved and engage in a different way and very thankful to AD Tolls for helping set that up through Michigan Tech with his role as an advisor within the engineering programs and then helping our student athletes and our students.
be engaged with those Navy representatives.
So a great piece, very excited for our students and student athletes to be involved with that.
And looking forward to seeing what the feedback and responses from our students about the experience.
So we'll get to that in the next couple of days.
All right, sounds exciting.
Yeah, wonderful.
soapbox.
Well, I'm already at my time because I keep rambling, right?
But, you know, a couple other tidbits before, you know, we talk with opportunities for other representatives of the school district, both coaches, teachers or support staff.
Last week, we had Mr. Brennan LaClaire, a new football coach on.
They ended up having another tremendous win last week against Manastique as a home game.
So they're currently two and one.
This week, they're traveling to Gwynne.
You know, Gwynne is a
a school district that is very similar to ours in a way.
We've had some exceptional contests with them in the last several years when we'll be able to compete or actually schedule them.
And so hopefully it'll be another positive outcome for the program if they can go down to Gwynne on Friday and have a good showing.
We'll be looking forward to an opportunity to be three and one, hopefully.
And the program hasn't seen that in a while.
And so I got a text message after the contest on Friday's game from our JV Head.
slash a varsity associate coach, Mr. Ben Tampas, who again has been part of our program historically in many different levels.
He just, he wanted to reinforce what we're all seeing and feeling as the excitement back in the football program and definitely looking forward to how our student athletes within the football program compete and represent the Bulldog community.
So excited for them right now and then looking forward to the rest.
this season.
Um, volleyball, uh, coach, uh, Lampa and his team, um, are doing an exceptional job right now.
Uh, I think there were some questions after last year about some, some.
Um, roles and responsibilities to their program.
Uh, he's got the women competing extremely well right now.
They traveled this past weekend down to Gladstone for the annual rock tournament.
Uh, they came away victorious, uh, in that tournament, which is a great experience, uh, for them in that, you know, they're competing against the area, um, UPY teams and some good competition.
Uh, it sets them up for moving forward, uh, towards a tournament run.
Uh, they had a tremendous contest last night against CaliMet, uh, being that they went to five sets, uh, back
and forth each set.
And so, you know, again, just the grit that the ladies are showing as part of the program.
And Coach Lampa's, again, leadership within that has been tremendous.
See, hopefully we'll have him on next week to talk a little bit about the volleyball program from the start of the year, midpoint, and looking ahead again to some of those really important dates coming up against, you know, our perennials, whether it be the Gremlins, we'll be seeing the fight.
excuse me, the Copper Kings again, towards the end of season and then during the conference run and going into district play.
So very excited what's going on there with Coach Lamp and the volleyball program.
And then we'll also get, eventually we'll get Coach Smith on from the, you know, the Cross Country Rain program, both the middle school and high school.
And so we're looking forward to their engagements and conversations here coming up in the next couple of weeks.
Yeah, me too.
I'm looking forward to that.
Absolutely.
Great.
Alright, so anything else to mention before we head out?
As usual, thanks for having us on air and thanks to the radio station for helping support the Bulldog Byte.
And again, whether they are or they're not, we'll reference it, but thankful to Genos to be in our sponsor as well.
Alright, so thank you very much.
This has been the Bulldog Byte, right here on
Mixed93.
It's time for Hancock Happenings right here on Mixed93.
We have the Todd Gast.
The one, the only.
How are you?
I'm doing pretty good.
How are you?
I'm doing
okay.
I actually did Google my name once and there are several Todd Gasts out there, so I am not the one and only.
Well, same here.
Yeah, I bet there is some Sam Sears out there,
right?
There's a lot of Sam Sears.
Unreal.
Are they related?
No.
None?
No, not a single one of them, I think.
Okay.
I'll
recognize them
all.
No, not even...
Little bit.
No.
All right.
Well then guess what?
We're just gonna go into Hancock happenings and fall is in the air, right?
It's feeling a little bit more cool up there We still have less than a week to go less than a week.
It's almost a complete week though guys.
We just did a quick Google on the first day of fall equinox and It is at 840 p.m
On Tuesday.
Oh, yeah, so yeah, it's gonna be we're that late.
Yeah that late But hey a happy pre-fall to everybody.
I think we talked about this too.
We're in the meteorological fall.
That's right September 1st, but I never understand why we have to have two falls
So anyway
It's
still summer.
It is still summer.
I feel like it is.
But we're still in summer, but we are getting into the beginning of fall.
And it's going to happen with the all-new Hancock Thursday Farmers Market.
And that is every Thursday where we have over 30 rotating vendors that make the Hancock Thursday Market your choice for high-quality baked goods with some gluten-free options as well.
Fresh, not free.
Fresh.
produce, it couldn't be more fresh.
Just picked that day.
You get bagels, other, like I said, other baked goods, clothing, mending, quail eggs and more.
So you can get your family's groceries every Thursday on Quincy Green, and that's from two until 6 p.m.
But guess what?
We only have three more weeks left.
That is going to be it.
So October 1st is the final market day on Quincy Green.
So you want to start getting up and stocking up on those items.
that you want to preserve for fall and winter.
So what a great opportunity.
You have three weeks left to get all that great fresh picked produce.
grown right here locally and if you believe in keeping our money local this is really one of the ways you can do that because our local farmers and our local cottage industry folks those are local businesses so we want to support them and then we understand that there's other markets in other towns we want you to support those markets as well because we believe also that farmers markets in your town make your town
even more healthy.
So let's support our all new Hancock Thursday Farmers Market.
That is this Thursday and that is tomorrow.
So that is three more like three more that concludes tomorrow then next week and the following week and that is going to be it.
So let's stock up and it's harvest time and you're going to find all those awesome veggies and fruits out there.
Also it's game night on Thursdays here in Hancock.
So it is the place
to be, and where you want to go to KC Bonkers, and that's at 119 Quincy Street, and that's every Thursday for game night, and they're open until 8 p.m.
So they have a really awesome array of different board games, and what a great way to start preparing for the weekend.
Take your family out, your friends, coworkers, what a great way to just get together, play games, and they have drink specials there as well.
And New Teenies Supper Club at 321 Quincy Street hosts
Trivia night every night or every Thursday night.
Sorry about that.
Every Thursday night is Trivia night and that's at 8 30 p.m.
So you can take a hop skip and a jump right from Casey Bonkers to New Teenies grab a bite to eat and get your brainwaves all ready to go to play trivia.
And like I said, that's every Thursday night at 8 30 at New Teenies Supper Club right here in downtown Hancock.
So we've got some September Arts in Hancock, which is a new
Um...
exhibition at the Copper Country Community Arts Center is Up Close and Personal, which is freeform stitching by Peg McNinche.
And it'll be at the Cynthia Cote Gallery.
And that show will be through September 30th.
So you have a little bit of time to get on over and check out this show.
But it is really a wonderful show.
As well as the Finlandia Art Gallery's Salmi exhibition, which is through September 23rd.
which this exhibition consists of two exhibits on loan from the Sami Circle.
Circle North America, which is Erica Larson's Walking with Reindeer and Sami Herders in Alaska, as well as artifacts from the Sami Circle North American Archive.
So this is going to be a really interesting show to check out.
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly suggest getting over there.
That is at the Finlandi Art Gallery, and that's at the Finnish American Heritage Center.
We're also doing our first ever bright spot, Hancock, and we're calling artists
for this fall, winter art installation, where we're gonna be painting, our artists will be painting discs that are about 18 to 24 inches in diameter, and they will be pre-treated, ready to paint, and we're gonna have some painting parties at ILO Creative and Lynn Masalini's Art Studio and Gallery, and the Copper Country Community Art Center.
Those are the three locations that we're gonna have in October for the painting parties, so you will paint
inspirational phrases.
There will be about three to five words and you get to choose your phrase that you would like, but they will be selected by the city of Hancock.
And then you will paint those inspirational words in the way that you see those words in your artwork.
and those discs will then be installed on light poles throughout the city of Hancock.
So you can go in fall and winter to go and get your, to find your bright spot during those kind of dark gloomy days that are coming up in fall and winter.
So if you're interested in this, you may give us a call 906-482-2720 or email city at cityofhancock.com.
Also there's
Fall in the air that we were talking about.
So it was a great time to get those fall art classes.
And you may do that at the Copper Country Community Art Center.
ILO Creative has great classes.
Also Magic Kiln Studio.
They've got their Sunday Fun Day art projects that they do every month.
And then the Finnish American Folk School, they have a whole list of great classes to sign up for.
So you can go onto their websites and get something fun going.
for fall this year.
We've got the Hancock Rotary World of Wine Tasting and Silent Auction.
It's in just two days.
So that's this Friday, September 18th at 7 p.m.
with doors opening at 6.30 p.m.
There will be special selections of wines from Rotagio Imports.
They're out of Iron River and they're introducing wines to Michigan through the UP for the first time.
So they have a total of five wines that will be served with small plate
offerings that will be done by Geno's Restaurant here in Hancock.
And they've got a very special dessert wine that has just been added and we're super excited to share it with you.
So we have a fully, also a fully stocked wine cooler that will be raffled off during this event.
So eat every ticket for a single ticket is $75.
And if you'd like to get a table of eight, that is $525.
This is the Hancock Rotary's biggest fundraiser of the year.
So we're really
asking for support from the community.
And if you'd like to get your tickets, you may buy them and call us at 906-42-2720.
Email cityatcityofhandcock.com and get your tickets or you can stop by City Hall or find one of those Rotarians out there.
So we're super excited to have that.
That is this Friday only in two days.
So this is going to be a super special event.
Like I said, there's wines here that have not.
yet been tasted by folks in the state before.
So very exciting, excited to have this.
We've got the pancake breakfast for the Hancock City Fire Department.
This is their annual fundraising event on October 3rd, and that'll be from 7am to noon at the Fire Hall on Ethel Avenue.
It's $10 for adults and kids under 6
are free, um, or they eat free.
You're not going to get them for free.
Uh, so we're also, uh, doing the Hancock Historic Committee presenting Bobs and Audis, bring the story of your ancestors life.
And he's the off author of his new book, uh, Beyond the Copper Horizon, which is a novel, uh, set here in the UP.
Uh, so that's on Tuesday, October 6th at 6 30 PM at 3 99 Quincy Street.
That is Hancock City Hall and also the Hancock history.
Hall.
And so that is on Tuesday, October 6th.
And we can't not wait to have that discussion.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
We also want to remind everybody that the closing for our summer season, we've been talking about fall.
And so that means Hancock Beach, the Hancock Campground and Lakeside Cemetery are all closing on October 15th.
But before that, we want to let people know and remind folks that Lakeside Cemetery Gravesites must have all decorations removed.
by October 1st.
So that's what we've got going here for the Hancock happenings pre-fall edition.
Make sure we want to get the word out about the Hancock Rotary World of Wine Tasting and Silent Auction.
This is a very special wine tasting, like I said, very incredibly special wines.
Many have not been introduced here in the state of Michigan, and they will be right here at the World of Wine Tasting.
That's on Friday, September 18th.
That is in two days, 7 p.m.
Doors open at 6.30 p.m.
Can't wait to have this event.
And thank you so much as always, and have a great week, everyone.
Yep, it's a pleasure to have you, and I'll see you when it's fall.
Absolutely.
All right, this has been Hancock Captains on Mixed 93.
It's time for Hancock Happenings right here on Mixed93.
We have the Todd Gast.
The one, the only.
How are you?
I'm doing pretty good.
How are you?
I'm doing
okay.
I actually did Google my name once and there are several Todd Gasts out there, so I am not the one and only.
Well, same here.
Yeah, I bet there is some Sam Sears out there,
right?
There's a lot of Sam Sears.
Unreal.
Are they related?
No.
None?
No, not a single one of them, I think.
Okay.
I'll
recognize them
all.
No, not even...
Little bit.
No.
All right.
Well then guess what?
We're just gonna go into Hancock happenings and fall is in the air, right?
It's feeling a little bit more cool up there We still have less than a week to go less than a week.
It's almost a complete week though guys.
We just did a quick Google on the first day of fall equinox and It is at 840 p.m
On Tuesday.
Oh, yeah, so yeah, it's gonna be we're that late.
Yeah that late But hey a happy pre-fall to everybody.
I think we talked about this too.
We're in the meteorological fall.
That's right September 1st, but I never understand why we have to have two falls
So anyway
It's
still summer.
It is still summer.
I feel like it is.
But we're still in summer, but we are getting into the beginning of fall.
And it's going to happen with the all-new Hancock Thursday Farmers Market.
And that is every Thursday where we have over 30 rotating vendors that make the Hancock Thursday Market your choice for high-quality baked goods with some gluten-free options as well.
Fresh, not free.
Fresh.
produce, it couldn't be more fresh.
Just picked that day.
You get bagels, other, like I said, other baked goods, clothing, mending, quail eggs and more.
So you can get your family's groceries every Thursday on Quincy Green, and that's from two until 6 p.m.
But guess what?
We only have three more weeks left.
That is going to be it.
So October 1st is the final market day on Quincy Green.
So you want to start getting up and stocking up on those items.
that you want to preserve for fall and winter.
So what a great opportunity.
You have three weeks left to get all that great fresh picked produce.
grown right here locally and if you believe in keeping our money local this is really one of the ways you can do that because our local farmers and our local cottage industry folks those are local businesses so we want to support them and then we understand that there's other markets in other towns we want you to support those markets as well because we believe also that farmers markets in your town make your town
even more healthy.
So let's support our all new Hancock Thursday Farmers Market.
That is this Thursday and that is tomorrow.
So that is three more like three more that concludes tomorrow then next week and the following week and that is going to be it.
So let's stock up and it's harvest time and you're going to find all those awesome veggies and fruits out there.
Also it's game night on Thursdays here in Hancock.
So it is the place
to be, and where you want to go to KC Bonkers, and that's at 119 Quincy Street, and that's every Thursday for game night, and they're open until 8 p.m.
So they have a really awesome array of different board games, and what a great way to start preparing for the weekend.
Take your family out, your friends, coworkers, what a great way to just get together, play games, and they have drink specials there as well.
And New Teenies Supper Club at 321 Quincy Street hosts
Trivia night every night or every Thursday night.
Sorry about that.
Every Thursday night is Trivia night and that's at 8 30 p.m.
So you can take a hop skip and a jump right from Casey Bonkers to New Teenies grab a bite to eat and get your brainwaves all ready to go to play trivia.
And like I said, that's every Thursday night at 8 30 at New Teenies Supper Club right here in downtown Hancock.
So we've got some September Arts in Hancock, which is a new
Um...
exhibition at the Copper Country Community Arts Center is Up Close and Personal, which is freeform stitching by Peg McNinche.
And it'll be at the Cynthia Cote Gallery.
And that show will be through September 30th.
So you have a little bit of time to get on over and check out this show.
But it is really a wonderful show.
As well as the Finlandia Art Gallery's Salmi exhibition, which is through September 23rd.
which this exhibition consists of two exhibits on loan from the Sami Circle.
Circle North America, which is Erica Larson's Walking with Reindeer and Sami Herders in Alaska, as well as artifacts from the Sami Circle North American Archive.
So this is going to be a really interesting show to check out.
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly suggest getting over there.
That is at the Finlandi Art Gallery, and that's at the Finnish American Heritage Center.
We're also doing our first ever bright spot, Hancock, and we're calling artists
for this fall, winter art installation, where we're gonna be painting, our artists will be painting discs that are about 18 to 24 inches in diameter, and they will be pre-treated, ready to paint, and we're gonna have some painting parties at ILO Creative and Lynn Masalini's Art Studio and Gallery, and the Copper Country Community Art Center.
Those are the three locations that we're gonna have in October for the painting parties, so you will paint
inspirational phrases.
There will be about three to five words and you get to choose your phrase that you would like, but they will be selected by the city of Hancock.
And then you will paint those inspirational words in the way that you see those words in your artwork.
and those discs will then be installed on light poles throughout the city of Hancock.
So you can go in fall and winter to go and get your, to find your bright spot during those kind of dark gloomy days that are coming up in fall and winter.
So if you're interested in this, you may give us a call 906-482-2720 or email city at cityofhancock.com.
Also there's
Fall in the air that we were talking about.
So it was a great time to get those fall art classes.
And you may do that at the Copper Country Community Art Center.
ILO Creative has great classes.
Also Magic Kiln Studio.
They've got their Sunday Fun Day art projects that they do every month.
And then the Finnish American Folk School, they have a whole list of great classes to sign up for.
So you can go onto their websites and get something fun going.
for fall this year.
We've got the Hancock Rotary World of Wine Tasting and Silent Auction.
It's in just two days.
So that's this Friday, September 18th at 7 p.m.
with doors opening at 6.30 p.m.
There will be special selections of wines from Rotagio Imports.
They're out of Iron River and they're introducing wines to Michigan through the UP for the first time.
So they have a total of five wines that will be served with small plate
offerings that will be done by Geno's Restaurant here in Hancock.
And they've got a very special dessert wine that has just been added and we're super excited to share it with you.
So we have a fully, also a fully stocked wine cooler that will be raffled off during this event.
So eat every ticket for a single ticket is $75.
And if you'd like to get a table of eight, that is $525.
This is the Hancock Rotary's biggest fundraiser of the year.
So we're really
asking for support from the community.
And if you'd like to get your tickets, you may buy them and call us at 906-42-2720.
Email cityatcityofhandcock.com and get your tickets or you can stop by City Hall or find one of those Rotarians out there.
So we're super excited to have that.
That is this Friday only in two days.
So this is going to be a super special event.
Like I said, there's wines here that have not.
yet been tasted by folks in the state before.
So very exciting, excited to have this.
We've got the pancake breakfast for the Hancock City Fire Department.
This is their annual fundraising event on October 3rd, and that'll be from 7am to noon at the Fire Hall on Ethel Avenue.
It's $10 for adults and kids under 6
are free, um, or they eat free.
You're not going to get them for free.
Uh, so we're also, uh, doing the Hancock Historic Committee presenting Bobs and Audis, bring the story of your ancestors life.
And he's the off author of his new book, uh, Beyond the Copper Horizon, which is a novel, uh, set here in the UP.
Uh, so that's on Tuesday, October 6th at 6 30 PM at 3 99 Quincy Street.
That is Hancock City Hall and also the Hancock history.
Hall.
And so that is on Tuesday, October 6th.
And we can't not wait to have that discussion.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
We also want to remind everybody that the closing for our summer season, we've been talking about fall.
And so that means Hancock Beach, the Hancock Campground and Lakeside Cemetery are all closing on October 15th.
But before that, we want to let people know and remind folks that Lakeside Cemetery Gravesites must have all decorations removed.
by October 1st.
So that's what we've got going here for the Hancock happenings pre-fall edition.
Make sure we want to get the word out about the Hancock Rotary World of Wine Tasting and Silent Auction.
This is a very special wine tasting, like I said, very incredibly special wines.
Many have not been introduced here in the state of Michigan, and they will be right here at the World of Wine Tasting.
That's on Friday, September 18th.
That is in two days, 7 p.m.
Doors open at 6.30 p.m.
Can't wait to have this event.
And thank you so much as always, and have a great week, everyone.
Yep, it's a pleasure to have you, and I'll see you when it's fall.
Absolutely.
All right, this has been Hancock Captains on Mixed 93.