Below is information to help you prepare for the big event! We can’t wait to Relay and hope you’ll join us. No matter where you are, there’s a place for you at Relay and you can make a difference today by signing up or by simply making a donation. Thanks to Relay for Life participants, we are saving lives and creating a world with more birthdays.
Event Dates and Times: Saturday, July 10 – Sunday 11, 2010 from 10:00am – 10:00am
Event Location: Standish-Sterling Middle School Football Field, 3789 Wyatt Road, Standish, Michigan
Directions:
Take M-13 North through Standish to Grove Road (Twistee Freeze on left-hand side before Grove Road)
Turn left onto Grove Road, travel approximately two (2) miles, the Standish-Sterling Middle School is on the left
Event Schedule: 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Event Schedule to be posted later
Event Contacts: Community Representative Mark Heffner at Mark.Heffner@cancer.org or 1800-728-2323
For more information about Relay For Life, visit our Relay For Life information page.
Made In Michigan Crafts
August 20-22, 2010
Howell, Michigan
Contact Information:
517-540-6374
cstone@ci.howell.mi.us
Howell Melon Festival celebrates the heritage and agricultural roots of the Howell community and includes a Farmers Market, carnival, free entertainment, bed races, 5k & 10k run, BBQ, and an Arts & Craft Show featuring products made in Michigan. Don’t miss your chance to get a genuine Howell Melon and Melon Ice Cream.
Jan. 20, 2010
Poetry Series
Scarab Club
217 E. Farnsworth
Detroit, Michigan
Contact Information:
734-642-7194
mgriffor@marickpress.com
Co-sponsored by Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers
Featured writers:
- Caroline Maun
- Mariela Griffor
- Daniel Padilla
Caroline Maun’s first book of poetry The Sleeping, (Marick Press 2006) contains two poems nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize. She is also the editor of The Collected Poems of Evelyn Scott(National Poetry Foundation, 2005). Maun received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She was an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at Morgan State University from 1998-2004. She was recently named one of two recipients of WSU’s Academy of Scholars Junior Faculty Award. Her chapbook of poetry Cures and Poisons appeared with Pudding House Press in 2009.
Chilean native Mariela Griffor attended the University of Santiago and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She left Chile for an involuntary exile in Sweden in 1985. She is Publisher of Marick Press and curator of the Poets Follies Reading Series in Grosse Pointe. Her work appears in Washington Square Review, Passages North, Poetry International and other journals. Griffor holds a B.A. in Journalism and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New England College where she currently is a Joel Oppenheimer Scholar. She is the author of Exiliana (Luna Publications) and House (Mayapple Press).
Daniel Padilla studied writing at Albion College in Albion, Michigan, University of Detroit-Mercy and Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. An artist specializing in pastel drawing, his writing is enhanced by his studies of the visual arts in the streets, galleries and museums locally and throughout the Americas and Europe. He lives and works in his studio in Plymouth.
TaDah Productions will be partnering with Oakland Mall and WCSX radio to showcase the great products and services of Michigan. There will be sampling of food & drink, jewelry, accessories, services, art, and much more Michigan made products. Oakland Mall will also be offering a wine tasting of featured wines.
January 22 – 24, 2010
Oakland Mall
412 W. 14 Mile Rd
Troy, Michigan 48083
Contact Information:
Vicki Howard 248-548-2324
ta-dahproductions@comcast.net
