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There was a full house at the G-F-C for this year’s Christmas Bazaar. The hall was full of folks offering Island made items for holiday gifting. Sales were brisk and the soup went quickly. The 2027 Birthday Calendar form the 4th and 5th Grade class premiered. If you missed the chance to get yours, you can pick one up at the B-I-C-S Front desk while supplies last. Proceeds go to support the class trip.
#Fundraising
As is tradition, the 2027 Birthday Calendars premiered at the Bazaar. If you didn’t pick one up there, you can get your copy at the BICS Front Desk. They make great holiday gifts. Proceeds go to support the 4th and 5th grade spring trip. Image from 2027 BICS Birthday Calendar
Beaver Island’s new ferry and dock projects are both on the agenda when the Transportation Authority Board meets tomorrow. The board is due to hear updates on both projects and take up budget adjustments and electronic meetings. The authority owns the Emerald Isle, which the Beaver Island Boat Company operates between the Island and Charlevoix. Tomorrow’s meeting starts at noon at the authority’s building on Main Street, with time for public comment. There’s a link to the agenda in today’s script online.
https://www.beaverislandtransportationauthority.com
#Transportation
Tomorrow marks fifty-one years since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in Lake Superior. All twenty-nine crew members were lost when the freighter sank off Whitefish Point on November tenth, nineteen seventy-five. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society will hold a private memorial for families and others connected to the ship tomorrow evening at seven. The public can watch online. We’ve linked the museum’s page in today’s script, and the museum says it’ll post the livestream there. Here on the Island, the library will host a talk next Wednesday by John U. Bacon, whose book The Gales of November tells the story of the ship and its crew.
https://shipwreckmuseum.com/edmund-fitzgerald/?utm_source=wvbi.net
#History
Michigan’s regular firearm deer season opens Sunday and runs through November thirtieth. The D-N-R reminds hunters to buy their licenses before heading out and to report a deer harvest within seventy-two hours or before turning the deer over to a processor or taxidermist, whichever comes first. Hunters can report online or through the Michigan D-N-R Hunt Fish app. We’ve linked this year’s regulations in today’s script.
#Hunting
In Lansing, last week’s election gives Democrats control of the governor’s office and both chambers of the Legislature in January. Democrats flipped the state House and widened their majority in the Senate. Governor-elect Jocelyn Benson told Bridge Michigan she sees the results as a mandate to tackle affordability. Beaver Island’s two Republican lawmakers, state Senator John Damoose and state Representative Parker Fairbairn, both won reelection and will serve in the minority in their respective chambers.
#Election2026
And in Traverse City, rising costs are changing the math for high school musicals. The Ticker reports that productions that once helped raise money for school music programs now often aim to break even. Even so, Traverse City Central and West are both staging musicals new to northern Michigan audiences this year. Central’s production of Wonderland, a modern take on Alice in Wonderland, opens Thursday and runs through November twenty-second.
On the Island, the Queen of Hearts has been found. Lisa Gillespie picked envelope number seven Saturday and wins sixty percent of the jackpot of $23,975, less consolation prizes already paid.
The Queen could not hide from Lisa Gillespie. At least this time. She picked lucky number 7 and takes home the pot. Photo from Beaver Island Elks.
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Now here’s a look at upcoming events on your Emerald Isle…
First, your meeting planner through the end of next week. St. James Finance Committee meets today at 1:30. Peaine Township Planning Commission meets today at 5:00. The Beaver Island Transportation Authority Board meets Tuesday at noon. St, James Board meets Wednesday at 5:30. Next Thursday, November nineteenth, the Beaver Island District Library Board meets at 4:30. A-A meets Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 6:00 in the evening.
On the fun front…
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Highlight for the rest of the week include…
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Those are the highlights. Find a full listing of events at calendar dot W-V-B-I dot net.
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Today’s BIC Center Name of the Day is Madeline. If that’s your name, come on down to the BIC Center today to pick out a free drink of your choice.
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On our Birthday List: Trisch Scott is celebrating today. Happy Birthday to Trisch and, if we missed you on the list, Happy Birthday to you too from everyone at the BIC Center and WVBI.
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TRAFFIC: No delays inbound or outbound to the airports. The Island Beltway is running smoothly. There are no bridge delays. Still, let’s be careful out there. Especially in the school zone.
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On this date in 1913, the Great Lakes storm known as the White Hurricane reached its deadliest stretch. Eight ships and 187 people were lost on Lake Huron in just six hours that evening. A National Weather Service reconstruction estimated wind gusts above 80 miles an hour and waves reaching 36 feet. On Lake Michigan, the passenger steamer Illinois rode out the storm in the shelter of South Manitou Island, where its captain pushed the bow onto the beach and the ship stayed for 49 hours. Across the Great Lakes, the storm claimed about 250 lives over four days.
The storm-damaged lifesaving station at Pointe aux Barques after the White Hurricane of November 9, 1913. Photo from Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection at the Library of Congress
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Our Merriam-Webster Word of the Day is wabi-sabi [WAH-bee-SAH-bee], a noun. It’s a Japanese philosophy that finds beauty in simple things, in imperfections, and in the changes that come with time. Think of a handmade teacup with an uneven rim and a glaze worn smooth where your thumb rests. Those marks are part of its beauty.
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Now, to wrap up for this Beaver Island Monday…
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Here’s a thought for the day from Yoshida Kenkō [yoh-shee-dah ken-koh], a 14th-century Japanese Buddhist priest whose writing anticipated wabi-sabi: “Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, at the moon only when it is cloudless?”
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And on a lighter note…
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That’s the W-V-B-I Community Calendar Report for this Beaver Island Monday, November 9th, 2026. I’m Kevin Boyle reporting from W-V-B-I’s Langford Family Studios wishing you a great day and asking: why not go ahead and make it the best day ever? And thanks for listening.
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WEATHER
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[Current Condition Report, then…]
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Today
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Air Quality Index this morning is 0.
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Fire Danger: Low
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Out on the Big Drink…
Photo from the North Lake Michigan Buoy. Provided by the National Data Buoy Center
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Today
NNW wind 10 to 15 kt becoming SSW in the afternoon. Mostly cloudy. Waves 1 to 2 ft.
Tuesday
WNW wind 10 to 15 kt. Sunny. Waves 1 to 2 ft.
Veterans Day
WNW wind 5 to 10 kt becoming NNE in the afternoon. A chance of showers after noon. Waves 1 ft or less.
Thursday
NNE wind 15 to 20 kt. Mostly cloudy. Waves 3 to 4 ft.
Friday
N wind 15 to 20 kt. Mostly cloudy. Waves 2 to 3 ft.
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Water Temps: 54 at the mid-lake buoy southwest of Gull Island. No other buoys reporting.
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Photos from webcams at wvbi.net and mackinacbridge.org
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Coming up in our Community Calendar Report…
The Christmas Bazaar packed the Gregg Fellowship Center, and the Queen of Hearts was hiding in envelope number seven. We’ll tell you who found her. Plus, what’s on the agenda for Beaver Island’s new ferry and dock projects, how to watch tomorrow’s Edmund Fitzgerald memorial, and what hunters need to know before firearm deer season opens Sunday.
Those stories along with more local and state news, a run down of local events, birthdays, this date in history, a thought for the day and yet another even worse turkey joke are up after this global and national news from F-S-N…
[Time check.]
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Today’s featured image: As is tradition, the 2027 Birthday Calendars premiered at the Bazaar. If you didn’t pick one up there, you can get your copy at the BICS Front Desk. They make great holiday gifts. Proceeds go to support the 4th and 5th grade spring trip. Image from 2027 BICS Birthday Calendar
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