Hooked on knitting By Ron Beeber, Contributing Writer PENTWATER — Anyone who thinks chocolate is addictive has never learned how to knit. If you know how and are reading this, you’re probably smiling. It’s believed that knitting originated in Egypt about 1,000 years ago to make socks. Fast forward about 900 years, British citizens banded together in a national effort…
‘We can build a snowman’ By Ron Beeber, Contributing Writer PENTWATER — “In the meadow we can build a snowman, and we’ll pretend that he is Parson Brown” is a favorite lyric from the holiday song “Winter Wonderland.” Did this popular tune inspire Sue Hopp to recently conduct a wooden snowman-making class at the Pentwater Artisan Learning Center for 15…
Weaving whiz’s memory deeply woven into many hearts By Ron Beeber, Contributing Writer PENTWATER — Weaving is the craft or action of interlacing threads to form fabric. Search on the Internet the phrase “beauty of weaving,” and one finds this statement: “the way yarns go to form a fabric symbolizes relationships that we build and hold in this world. Nothing…
PALC — The ‘P’ stands for ‘people’ By Ron Beeber, Contributing Writer PENTWATER — As the Pentwater Artisan Learning Center’s (PALC) fundraising effort nears the $100,000 mark toward the $250,000 needed to properly equip it for the next 20 years, several members recently shared what they enjoy most out of coming to the center. “It’s the people,” said Juanita Pierman, former…
Newly-released crime thriller takes place in Oceana County By Allison Scarbrough, Editor HART — After author Jill Wagner first visited Oceana County last summer, she soon decided it would serve as the perfect setting for her next book. Jane’s Punishment, which is the second book in a series, is now available on Amazon. “Last summer when I visited Mears and…
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