Traverse City Record-Eagle

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March 26, 2012

Cheers: 03/26/2012

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• To Helen Cook, who received the Sara Hardy Humanity Award last week. Cook has worked with the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Anishinaabek Family Services for almost 15 years. Her achievements include a child welfare program that features a strong prevention component for at-risk families and group homes for youth with substance abuse issues.

• To the Downtown Development Authority board for recommending an amendment to one of its tax increment financing plans to include $100,000 for the History Center of Traverse City, located in the historic former Carnegie library building on Sixth Street; it was built in the early 1900s.

• To Manistee's Blacker Market Airport Director Barry Lind for finding another carrier to provide daily air service after Frontier Airlines halted flights earlier this month. The U.S. Department of Transportation signed off on a proposal to modify the airport's federal air service grant and allow the airport to secure new daily service from Public Carriers this spring to and from Chicago's Midway Airport, the hub for Southwest Airlines.

• To Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail private donors who contributed $1 million for a challenge pledge for the trail that will eventually link Glen Arbor and Empire. The Glen Arbor-Dune Climb section is scheduled for completion in July. Another $400,000 is needed for the portion from the Dune Climb to Empire.

• To the West Senior High School EuroChorale singers for their two-week spring odyssey to four European countries, with performances in Spain, France, Monaco and Riva Del Garda, Italy, where they competed in the Concorso Corale Internazionale.

• To libraries, schools and charities across northern Michigan that are participating in the Read Aloud campaign as part of National Reading Awareness Month. Sponsored by the nonprofit ReadAloud.org, the initiative encourages reading aloud to young children at least 15 minutes a day as the best way to prepare them to learn because of its impact on early childhood brain development

• To Harry Clark, his wife, Laura, and their children, Andrew and Arika, for vowing to open the Cherry Bowl Drive-in in Honor this year even after Harry suffered a head injury while cleaning up after the March 2-3 snowstorm. Clark and his family have owned the landmark drive-in on U.S. 31 outside Honor since 1997. Andrew Clark said the drive-in was expected to open April 27 for its 59th season. Its opening may now be delayed until summer, he said. Harry Clark remains in serious condition at Munson Medical Center. The theater is a community tradition for many in Benzie County and across the region.

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