INTRO
Today is Friday, February 5th, 2016.Welcome to Friday. I’m Greg Doig with today’s WVBI Community Calendar.
NEWS
Celebrate Beaver Island’s spectacular location and habitats as birds and birders migrate to the island for the 2016 Warblers on the Waters (WOW) events.
http://www.beaverislandbirdingtrail.org
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The Beaver Island Association
P.O. Box 390
Beaver Island, MI 49782
Things are moving along with the BICS FRC team. The students have worked hard to this point and have some more work ahead. You can follow their progress on a website that Kevin Boyle has put out there. The address is birobot.org
Take a look at the post “Join the BIROBOT Team as a sponsor”. There is as some cool stuff given to sponsors that donate.
Islanders Sports this weekend. The Basketball teams are away, but let’s be there in spirit for them.
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
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The Charlevoix County Commission on Aging “Dining Out Program” will remain available at Stoney Acre Grill without interruption!
The same menu will be available, however there may be some “temporary outages” during the transfer of ownership and restocking. Other than that, it will be “as usual”: same menu, cooks and wonderful food, same procedure, and same benefit to Seniors!
Any questions?! Just call Ann at 448-2022.
Reminder: The next COA Sunday Dinner at the Community Center is February 7th. Join us for some “lovin’ forkfulls” before your Superbowl Sunday game–and Valentine’s Day!
At the Community Center…
Games Galore will now be held on Thursday’s at 1pm to 4pm
The Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program will now be available on FRIDAYS ONLY, 11am-12pm @ BI Comm Center effective the week of January 25;
FIRST NEW CLASS Friday, January 29!
NOTE: There will be NO CLASS on Friday, January 22!
If you are interested in attending but would like–or need–to use the Charlevoix County Transit bus in order to do so, please contact Ann at 448-2022. We would consider changing the time of the class to coincide with the Transit schedule in order to keep this valuable program active on Beaver Island.
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And speaking of the movies, for this coming Saturday, are:
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer.
SATURDAY
FEBRUARY 6TH, 2016
3 PM
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama | 2015 (USA)
Stars:Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke
The MARTIAN
Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet.
Stars: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig |
SATURDAY
FEBRUARY 6TH , 2016
7 pm
PG-13 | 144 MIN | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | 2 October 2015 (USA)
Thanks to Beaver Island Community Center Business Sponsors , the Shamrock Bar and Restaurant, and the Beaver Island Boat Company
Wildlife News
The Wildlife Club is asking for volunteers for a couple of upcoming projects:
Feb 1-7: Turkey survey. We need the folks who have turkeys to make a count this week and let us know how many birds you see regularly. Also any stray flocks not regularly seen, should be counted as well. Report all numbers and locations here or to Jacque at jacquel@tds.net
Weather
Current Conditions – Greene’s Bay Beach, Beaver Island, MI
As of 8:28 AM Friday, February 5, 2016
Forecast: Partially Cloudy
Outside Temp: 26.5 F
High Outside Temp: 29.0 F at 12:02 AM
Low Outside Temp: 26.5 F at 8:21 AM
Outside Humidity: 85%
Heat Index: 27.0 F
Wind Chill: 26.0 F
Dew Point: 23.0 F
Barometer: 30.302″ and Rising Slowly
Wind Speed: 1.0 Mph
Wind Direction: WNW
High Gust: 17.0 Mph at 12:30 AM
10 min Avg Wind: 1.0 Mph
Phyllis Moore report-
It’s 26° outside this morning with a windchill of 18°. wind is at 7 mph from the west with gusts up to 20 mph, humidity is at 76%, pressure is rising from 1026 mb, and visibility is 9.9 miles. Today: snow showers in the morning, then snow showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 20s. West winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph. Tonight: Chance of snow showers in the evening, the snow showers likely after midnight. Lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph after midnight.
On this date of February 5, 1922, DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila Wallace publish the first Reader’s Digest magazine designed to provide abridged articles on a wide variety of subjects, for easy reading. They publish and direct market the magazine themselves, the success of the magazine has led to a circulation of over 10 million copies in the United States and is still believed to be the best-selling consumer magazine in the country.
Did you know that Earth is the only planet not named after a god?
Word of the day: nugatory (NOO-guh-tawr-ee) which means 1) of no real value; trifling; worthless. 2) of no force or effect; ineffective; futile; vain. 3) not valid. Nugatory stems from the Latin nūgārī meaning “to trifle.” It entered English around 1600.
Birthdays
Dave Adams
Community Needs and Wishes
There was a nice turnout on Wednesday for the Kathy Speck benefit at the Shamrock. In case you missed it there is still the GoFundme Link on the forum and will be in the WVBI page to help if you can with a donation. Kathy has incurred tremendous medical costs and all support is appreciated. https://www.gofundme.com/8zkdv7es
Roads
let’s be careful out there. Especially in the school zone.
Outro
To Lucas and all our listeners, the late Robin Williams once said, No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
That’s the WVBI Community Calendar for Friday, February 5th. I’m Greg Doig at WVBI – the Voice of Beaver Island.
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