Today is Thursday November 9th, 2017.
I’m Greg Doig with today’s WVBI Community Calendar.
Coming Up
The ‘VA Day’ has officially been rescheduled and confirmed for Tuesday, November 14, 2017, with the same timing of 9:00 – 11:30am BIRHC Representatives from VA Health care will discuss services available at the BIRHC for eligible veterans. Stop by and they can help you sign up for your VA Benefits and more.
Thursday
Pickleball 9:30 a.m. BICC
Games Galore 1-4 p.m. BICC
Friday
Arthritis Exercise Program BICC 10:00 a.m.
Saturday
Veterans Day Ceremony 11:00 a.m.
Movies BICC
3 p.m. Cars moved to the 18th
MUNE PG | 1h 26min | Animation, Adventure, Family When a faun named Mune becomes the Guardian of the Moon, little did he had unprepared experience with the Moon and an accident that could put both the Moon and the Sun in danger. Stars: Omar Sy, Izïa Higelin, Michaël Grégorio Trailer: https://youtu.be/X-YuxDOO8pU
7 p.m An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
PG | 1h 38min | Documentary
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth (2006) brought climate change
into the heart of popular culture comes the follow-up that shows just how
close we are to a real energy revolution.
Stars: Al Gore, George W. Bush, John Kerry
Trailer: https://youtu.be/huX1bmfdkyA
Free Will Donation Suggested $5
BICC and Shamrock Bar and Restaurant
Sunday
Worship Services on Island
Christmas Bazaar November 12th Gregg Fellowship Center 11-2:30 p.m.
Monday
Storytime BIDL 10:30 a.m.
BICS Board Meeting 7:00 p.m.
Regular meetings of the BICS Board of Education occur on the 2nd Monday of each month. Agendas and other meeting materials are available on the BICS website.
At our website, we’ve tried to include everything, but if we’ve missed your event you can easily add it yourself by using the handy “Post Your Event” button in the upper right of the calendar or by sending an email with the details to calendar@wvbi.net<mailto:calendar@wvbi.net>. And, we can make it easy for your events to show up in a nice calendar on your website, too, so you only have to post them once. Your website can show only your events or those plus other categories from the calendar that you choose.
Remember that the Pantry can always donations. For your convenience, there are collection baskets at the Beaver Island Christian Church, Beaver Island Community Center, Beaver Island Rural Health Center, Fresh Air, Holy Cross Church and Island Airways.
We can accept unopened, unexpired non-perishable food items. Cash donations are tax-deductible and are always appreciated as well. Checks can be made payable to the Beaver Island Christian Church, PO Box 21, Beaver Island, 49782. Please write Food Pantry on the memo line. Or you can use the Donation button at the bottom of the home page at beaverislandnews.com
The Food Pantry Committee
Judi Meister, Beth Croswhite, Mark LaFreniere, Deb Plastrik and Chris Heikka
Resale Store – Open on Thurs., Fri., and Sat. from noon until 4:00.
Weather
WVBI BICC – Sponsored by Powers Hardware
32 and snow
Today – Snow/Wind. High 32F. Winds NW at 25 to 35 mph.
Tonight – Snow Showers/Wind. Low 18F. Winds NNW at 25 to 35 mph.
Greenes Bay Beach – Boyle Family
32 and snow too
Same forecast as in town today
Current Conditions – Greene’s Bay Beach, Beaver Island, MI
As of 2:52 AM Thursday, November 9, 2017
Forecast: Partially Cloudy
Outside Temp: 39.8 F
High Outside Temp: 40.6 F at 1:02 AM
Low Outside Temp: 37.7 F at 2:09 AM
Outside Humidity: 89%
Heat Index: 40.0 F
Wind Chill: 32.0 F
Dew Point: 37.0 F
Barometer: 30.011″ and Falling Rapidly
Wind Speed: 16.0 Mph
Wind Direction: W
High Gust: 21.0 Mph at 12:29 AM
10 min Avg Wind: 10.0 Mph
Rain Rate: 0.00″/Hour
Day Rain: 0.03″
Storm Rain: 0.03″
Month Rain: 0.57″
Year Rain: 12.73″
Phyllis Moore Forecast
At the moment I’m showing 32° with a windchill of 21°, humidity is at 100%, pressure is falling from 29.89 inches, wind is from the NW at 7 mph, and visibility is 2 miles.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY: For Chippewa, Mackinac, Emmet, Cheboygan, Charlevoix, Otsego, Grand Traverse, and Crawford counties until 7 am Friday. 3-6″ of snow is forecast with isolated higher amounts. Strong gusty winds will create hazardous travel conditions.
TODAY: Periods of snow showers and rain showers in the morning then periods of snow showers in the afternoon. Patchy blowing snow in the afternoon. Breezy. Total daytime snow accumulation of 2 to 6 inches. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 15 mph increasing to northwest 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Gusts up to 45 mph.
TONIGHT: Patchy blowing snow in the evening. Periods of snow showers in the evening then numerous snow showers after midnight. Breezy. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 1 to 4 inches. Lows around 16°. NOrthwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph becoming north 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 after midnight.
MARINE REPORT: Gale Warning in effect from 7 am EST this morning through this evening.
TODAY: West wind 10 to 15 knots with gusts to around 25 knots becoming northwest up to 30 knots with gusts to around 40 knots in the morning. Periods of showers early in the morning. Periods of snow showers through the day. Waves 7 to 10 feet. Waves occasionally around 12 feet.
TONIGHT: North wind up to 30 knots with gusts to around 40 knots. Numerous snow showers. Waves 6 to 9 feet.
ON THIS DATE of November 9, 1938 – Nazi troops and sympathizers destroyed and looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, burned 267 synagogues, killed 91 Jews, and rounded up over 25,000 Jewish men in an event that became known as Kristallnacht or “Night of Broken Glass.”
DID YOU KNOW THAT the Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean? Of course, this varies with the seasons. It’s only in the wet season when the plume is this great.
WORD OF THE DAY: earthshine (urth-shahyn) which means the faint illumination of the part of the moon not illuminated by sunlight, as during a crescent phase, caused by the reflection of light from the earth. Earthshine appears in English in the early 19th century, about 20 years after the synonymous earthlight. Both words, considering their loveliness, are workaday astronomical terms, modeled after the much earlier moonlight (14th century) and moonshine (15th century).
Birthdays
None Listed
Traffic
… Still no delays to report on Beaver Island.
Hey, let’s be careful out there. Especially in the school zone.
To Lucas and all our listeners, Zig Ziglar once said, “you don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
On a lighter note, why don’t they let turkeys in church? Because they use foul language!!!
That’s the WVBI Community Calendar for Thursday November 9th, 2017.
I’m Greg Doig at WVBI‚ the Voice of Beaver Island. Make today the best day ever, and thank you for listening!