Christmas – Rangers of the Hiawatha National Forest Service will offer a tour of the Grand Island/Munising Bay West Channel Rear Range Lighthouse will be offered on Friday, July 30 from 3 to 4 p.m. at the Lighthouse, less than one mile east of Christmas on M-28.

For more information, call 387-2512.

Christmas – Rangers of the Hiawatha National Forest Service will offer a tour of the Grand Island/Munising Bay West Channel Rear Range Lighthouse will be offered on Friday, July 23 from 3 to 4 p.m. at the Lighthouse, less than one mile east of Christmas on M-28.

For more information, call 387-2512.

Christmas – Rangers of the Hiawatha National Forest Service will offer a tour of the Grand Island/Munising Bay West Channel Rear Range Lighthouse will be offered on Friday, July 16 from 3 to 4 p.m. at the Lighthouse, less than one mile east of Christmas on M-28.

For more information, call 387-2512.

posted on June 3rd, 2010 11:18AM

Munising The Greater Munising Bay Partnership (Alger County Chamber of Commerce) proudly invites you to a Business after Hours at the new Munising Pizza Hut and Wing Street on Thursday, June 24 from 5 to 7 p.m.

The newest Pizza Hut is expected to open by the end of June. The BAH event will give local businesspeople a first view of the new restaurant, which has been completely remodeled from its old A&W version. Food, of course, will be provided by Pizza Hut and Wing Street.

Munising – Riptide Ride coming to Munising in July. There will be thrill rides around Munising Bay and Grand Island on a converted Navy Seal vessel.

The boat will be moored at the city dock, and tickets will be available at the Falling Rock Cafe. For more information, go to http://www.facebook.com/algercounty

The Munising Bay Quilt Guild (MBQG) would like to invite the public to a National Quilting Day event on March 20, 2010. We will be making quilts to be given to our local service organizations, the American Legion, Jacobetti and the VVA. The public is invited to come out and cut, sew and quilt with us as a gesture of thanks to those who have served or that have a family member currently serving to come out and join us!

No sewing skills are needed, just the desire to help in thanking those who have do so much for us all.

We will be at the Wetmore Town Hall from 10:00am until 4:00pm

For more information, contact Tina Kleeman at 892-8493

Well, it’s here- Saturday made it to us! We have been broadcasting live today down at the Ice Drags here on beautiful Munising Bay and also out at Valley Spur’s Glide and Taste. James and I have been having a blast in here! And what a beautiful weekend it’s turned out to be. Certainly hope that all of our wonderful listeners were able to grab their sunglasses and head out to enjoy this sunshine in Munising!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and keep on listening!

~Stephanie

This Saturday, March 6th, starting at 11:00- Munising Bay will come to life as racers roar over the ice on their snowmobiles!

This annual event is always a fun spectator event and if you are looking for some fun this weekend, be sure to stop on down to the ice and watch the drags! Races starting at 11a.m. Just follow the signs in town to the starting line and WQXO will see you there!

Today is Groundhog Day and we are all anticipating whether or not Punxsutawney Phil will see his shadow. It seems that here, in the Greater Munising Bay area, the common opinion leans toward wanting the additional 6-weeks of winter so that we can prolong the winter sporting season and welcome even more snowmobilers and silent winter sport enthusiasts to the area. Our area depends so heavily upon the visitors to the area that more snow and cold weather is welcome around here…at least for a few more weeks. We’ll know know the results at 8 AM today when Phil emerges from his borough. Updates as they become available.

Yeah, six more weeks of winter. Let it snow.

Anyway, kids love this day. I’ll always remember it as a fun day for elementary school children with lots of Groundhog Day related events and crafts planned. Here are a few links for more information on the holiday.

For more on the history of Groundhog Day click here or here.

~ Leif

Heading into the weekend with lots of fresh, puffy snow and more on the way. What a refreshing change. The recent improvement  in weather will be a positive for local businesses as they host tourists and visitors to the Greater Munising Bay area.

I was reminded this morning of the upcoming Michigan Ice Fest that is planned for the weekend of February 5-7. The event, which is held right here in Munising, features the climbing of the ice cliffs on Grand Island and around Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore area.

More on this as I am able to get information. In the meantime, have a great weekend. Get out there and enjoy all this area has to offer.

~Leif

One thing is for sure…the ice on Munising Bay is getting thicker each day as the temperature remains this cold. We started things off this morning with a temp of 9 degrees and as we went through the morning show the temperature kept falling.

I don’t know if it’s because of the theme I decided to adopt this morning or not but with each song related to either warmth or summer the temperature reacted the opposite of what I had hoped. We listened to a little Donna Summer  – Hot Stuff and even a little classic Janis Joplin – Summertime. Regardless, I’m continuing with the theme. At least the coffee at the studio located in the Navigator Restaurant is hot and steamy. Stay warm today. The temperature is currently 7 degrees.

~ Leif

Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Char Carberry. Char is the Executive Director for the ‘Greater Munising Bay Partnership for Commerce Development’ and also the ‘Munising Downtown Development Authority’.

She and I had the opportunity to speak about the results that were recently presented regarding the Small Town Design Initiative. The ‘Initiative’ lead by Dr. Warren Rauhe is a student project of Michigan State University.

You may access Char’s interview on the Small Town Design Initiative by clicking on “Interviews”  above in the header on wqxo.com. Select the Small Town Design Initiative interview dated January 21, 2010 and click play to listen to the audio through your computer speakers or headphones. Save a step by CLICKING HERE.

~Leif

Calendar – Tuesday – January 19, 2010 – Munising Bay Arts Association meeting tonight at 6 p.m. at the Falling Rock Cafe in Munising.

We are very interested in building our participating membership base and would like to encourage you to come to our meeting tonight. We are “dedicated to broadening the cultural base of the Alger County Area through programs designed to heighten awareness of, involvement in, and appreciation for the arts.”

We will discuss the following items this evening:

Discussion of the display of arts and crafts in the Fuzzy Boyak Center
Discussion of possible Public Art Opportunity/Funds
Offering Classes
Coalition of Local Arts Based Groups

More Complete Agenda:

MBAA Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Falling Rock Café

6 p.m.

1. Election of Officers:

Nominations

Suzette Quinn for President

Phyllis Northup for Vice President

Erin Putvin for Secretary

Lora Loope for Treasurer

Frank Castiglione for Board Member

There are two write-in candidate opportunities for Board Member positions.

2. Char Carberry Presentation

Discussion of the display of arts and crafts in the Fuzzy Boyak Center

3. Public Art

Discussion of Public Art Opportunity/Funds

4. Classes

MBAA sponsored classes and PAID instructors (classes will have fees that will cover teacher expenses)

Sponsorship of current, active local art classes/aristic opportunities

5. Coalition of Local Arts Based Groups

6. Partnership Membership

7. Festival

The Greater Munising Bay Partnership will continue to provide free Waterfall/Lighthouse Maps and Bike/Hike Maps to the Hotels/Motels, restaurants, gas station, businesses and tourist, without the cost of asking for advertising from our area businesses.

We are in the business of supporting our community, businesses and tourism!

“Please consider shopping locally throughout the year to keep money moving in our communities, jobs available, and our local economy strong!”

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 – 6:00p
Munising Bay Quilt Guild Meeting at United Methodist Church basement