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  • Jack Segal, of Traverse City, holds the violin that was stolen from his home and recovered, thanks to an unidentified couple from Traverse City. The violin was made in Germany between 1700 and 1720. Record-Eagle/Keith King

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March 19, 2012

Cheers: 03/19/2012

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• To Jack Pasche, the Suttons Bay Middle School seventh-grader who won the Grand Traverse Regional Spelling Bee a week ago by spelling "ectoplasm" correctly. Thirty spellers from area counties participated in the annual event. "It feels so great. I wanted this so badly," he said. He now will compete in May at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.

• To Glen Noonan, of Kasson Township, for donating more than 500 acres of his land as a conservation easement to the Leelanau Conservancy. The two large parcels make up the single largest easement donation in the organization's history. It protects two separate parcels. One, 200 acres in Empire Township, contains a kettle hole, a rare conical land depression created by melting glacial ice. The second is on Polack Lake in Kasson Township. The 306-acre site near the house where Noonan grew up includes most of the private inland lake. Noonan retains ownership, but the easement protects the sites from future development, even if ownership changes.

• To the unidentified Traverse City couple who helped unite Jack Segal and his teenage daughter with a 300-year-old violin stolen during a March 2 burglary at their home. The alleged thief had been a visitor to the couple's home and left the violin and other stolen items at their house. They notified police after hearing reports of the theft.

• To Candice Wallace, the Trillium and the Overtones for hosting Pure A Cappella to raise money for vocal scholarships for the Northwestern Michigan Children's Choir and participating guest choirs — Traverse City Central High School Choralaires, the college's Jazz Choir, Tone Soup, and the Benzie High School Treble Makers. The concert starts at 8 p.m. Friday at the Milliken Auditorium. Admission is $10.

• To Ed Brown, of Traverse City, a maritime history enthusiast, for his vision, energy and leadership that helped get the Maritime Heritage Alliance off the ground 30 years ago. Brown, 98, died earlier this month and his memorial service was last week.

• To area Girl Scouts celebrating the 100th birthday of the scouting organization founded March 12, 1912, by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah, Ga. The Grand Traverse Area Service Unit of Michigan Shore to Shore District hosted a 100 Year Promise Circle ceremony Monday. The local district serves more than 14,500 girls and 4,000 volunteers in 30 counties in northern and western Michigan.

• To Third Level Crisis Intervention Center for adding texting to its counseling service to boost access for teens and the hearing impaired. Crisis counselors will staff a new commuter system for texting Mondays through Fridays from 4 p.m to 8 p.m.

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