Today is Friday, January 15th, 2016. I’m Greg Doig with today’s WVBI Community Calendar.
NEWS
A cross between tennis, badminton and ping pong, Pickle-ball is a fun and exciting game for all ages! Played with with 2 or 4 people, Pickle-ball works with hand-eye coordination skills, shot placement and strategy versus brute power, or strength. Come learn how to lob, slam, drive and volley!
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30-11:00am at the Beaver Island Community Center. Fee-free competitive-fun and exercise!
Join us for the FIRST session Thursday, 1/14 @ 9:30am!
Questions?! Call Ann at 448-2022, or Kitty at 2553.
We’re pleased to let you know we have a spiffy new website for WVBI.
- You can use it to listen online with a built-in station player that can provide you all sorts of information about the music we play. You’ll find song lyrics, album and artist information and more. To listen, just press the play button in the station player bar at the bottom of the page.
- There’s also a Community Calendar with information about events all over Beaver Island. We’re trying to make it complete with entries for BICC sponsored events as well as other events sponsored by other island organizations — including BICS, BIHS, the Chamber and the BI Cultural Arts Society, among others. We’ll also have entries for island board meetings that are open to the public. Want to see your event on the calendar? Just send us an email at calendar@wvbi.net.
- Keep up on what’s happening at WVBI with our news posts. You’ll find news about events on the station and at the BICC plus the text of our daily current events updates.
- Want to know what’s on when at the station? There’s complete program schedule with detailed information about all of our programming.
- Have an idea for a show or want to make a suggestion? Use the handy contact form.
But, enough reading about it. Dial it up and have a look at www.wvbi.net.
Mark your calendar! Join us February 26th for the 2nd Annual Alumni Basketball Tournament and Chili/Soup Cook Off
If you would like to join a team or sign up to enter your most awesome Chili or Soup call Carol @ 231-838-2883
This event is sponsored by the Beaver Island Sports Boosters. Our goal is to purchase BICS athletes new Soccer uniforms, an outdoor timer for the Soccer games, Platform for our Volleyball Refs, and new mats for the gym. All donations will go directly to these items for our Beaver Island Community School Sports Program.
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Radio Players News
We met, and are planning another meet Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Community Center. All interested please attend.
Basically, we looked at scripts and are encouraging all to look at some on genericradio.com to bring to discussion. Scripts we looked at include a Burns and Allen, Buck Rogers, The Creaking Door and one of the Lights Out series.
Depending on player numbers we’d like to tape 1-2 a month to be aired whenever the radio station wants to do so. Little rehearsal, no memorization, lots of fun… please join us.
If you can’t make it but are still interested, please let me know.
Jacque
P.S. We are considering some for the kids to do too. If you find any, please bring them along. Some have expressed an interest
From the Beaver Island Association
The Beaver Island Community is invited to a
Maine Islands Trip Debriefing
From Island Representatives
on
January 16, 2016 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
Beaver Island Community Center
Purpose of meeting: (1) to review and discuss with the Beaver Island community the lessons learned by Beaver Island representatives on the Maine island trip, (2) to begin discussion of approaches to addressing the key issues identified so far (including setting priorities and interested parties) and (3) based on discussion of (1) and (2), identify other issues that should be considered.
Please attend and let’s share ideas.
Additional information on trip can be found at:
www.beaverislandassociation.org
2015 Newsletters or Live WVBI Interview:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j3rpxil8qoyt9xz/Live%20at%20Five%202015-11-19%20Island%20Instutyte%20Trip%20Report.mp3?dl=0
Senior Services Meeting with BI Health and Human Services Tuesday Jan 19th 1 to 3 pm at the BICC.
http://beaverislandassociation.org
Wildlife News
Anyone who has a big flock of turkeys hanging out for the winter…please contact Mark LaFreniere. The Wildlife Club has corn purchased to feed turkeys and we want to find out where the large flocks are! Mark- 448-2220
At the Community Center…
Games Galore will now be held on Thursday’s at 1pm to 4pm
And speaking of the movies, for this coming Saturday, are:
NO MOVIE AT 3 PM–WE WILL BE HAVING A special presentation from the Beaver Island representatives that visited the Maine Islands. Everyone is invited to attend and exchange information and ideas.
Visit www.beaverislandassociation.org for more info.
But, at 7pm
The Visit (I) (2015)
PG-13 | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
Two siblings become incredibly frightened by their grandparents disturbing behavior, while visiting them on vacation.
Stars: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan |
Thanks to Beaver Island Community Center Business Sponsors , the Shamrock Bar and Restaurant, and the Beaver Island Boat Company
Reminder for Tuesday 1/19/2016 the National Geographic Program will air at 9ET featuring the Burton family and other island residents. We’ll have more details next week and as the series continues
Weather
Current Conditions – Greene’s Bay Beach, Beaver Island, MI
As of 8:28 AM Friday, January 15, 2016
Forecast: Mostly Cloudy, Snow within 12 hours
Outside Temp: 28.0 F
High Outside Temp: 29.5 F at 4:31 AM
Low Outside Temp: 25.3 F at 12:00 AM
Outside Humidity: 95%
Inside Temp: 67.2 F
Inside Humidity: 29%
Heat Index: 28.0 F
Wind Chill: 28.0 F
Dew Point: 27.0 F
Barometer: 29.524″ and Falling Slowly
Wind Speed: Calm
Wind Direction: NE
High Gust: 13.0 Mph at 7:26 AM
10 min Avg Wind: 2.0 Mph
Phyllis Moore – Right now I have 29° with a windchill of 14°, wind is at 20 mph from the east with gusts to 28 mph, humidity is at 96%, pressure is falling from 1001 mb, and visibility is 3 miles. Today: Cloudy. Chance of snow and patchy light freezing drizzle in the morning, then snow and rain likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. East winds at 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Tonight: Snow likely in the evening, then snow showers likely after midnight. Lows around 20. Northwest winds at 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
On this date of January 15, 1892 – “Triangle” magazine in Springfield, MA, published the rules for a brand new game. The original rules involved attaching a peach baskets to a suspended board. It is now known as basketball.
Did you know that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear?
Word of the day: reify (REE-uh-fahy, REY-) which means to convert into or regard as a concrete thing. Reify can be traced to the Latin rēs meaning “thing.” The suffix -ify, a variant of -fy, means “to make,” “to cause to be,” “render,” and is used in the formation of verbs.
Birthdays
David LePow
Saturday- Olivia Carey
Sunday – Mary Jean Pike. Mark Engelsman
Community Needs and Wishes
A PayPal account donation button has been set up for those off-Island to help out Tom Whitman. He was injured in a fall, and will probably be wheelchair bound for six to eight weeks
Here is a link to the Beaver Island News on the ‘Net Donation page where you can make your donation by Clicking on the Tom Whitman Donate Button.
http://beaverislandnews.com/Donation%20Page.html
Help if you can, please!
Cleaning out your pantry before fall or heading home after your vacation here? Remember that you can donate unopened non-perishable items to the Food Pantry to help families here on the Island. Drop boxes are at the Community Center, the Beaver Island Rural Health Center, Holy Cross Church, Fresh Air and the Beaver Island Christian Church. Monetary donations are always needed and can be made payable to the Beaver Island Christian Church, attention FoodPantry, PO Box 21. Or, thanks to Joe Moore, a PayPal/credit card donation link is available on the Beaver Island News on the Net website home page, lower left corner, at beaverislandnews.com.
Thank you for your help, the Food Pantry Committee, Judi Meister, Beth Croswhite, Mark LaFreniere and Deb Plastrik
Submitted by Deb Plastrik
Roads
Roads have a mean mix of ice and ice covered snow, so as always, let’s be careful out there. Especially in the school zone.
Outro
Since I have my Mark Twain t-shirt on today, I’ll give you a quote of his today – Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
That’s the WVBI Community Calendar for Friday, January 15th. I’m Greg Doig at WVBI – the Voice of Beaver Island.
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