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GRAYLING REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

213 N. James St., P.O. Box 406

Grayling, MI 49738

Phone 989-348-2921 Fax 989-348-7315

www.graylingchamber.com / [email protected]

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Serving the Communities of Crawford County Since 1942

OFFICE HOURS:

Monday – Friday 9:00am – 3:00pm

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HAVE YOU SIGNED UP YET? We are filling up fast, so be sure to get your

registration forms in ASAP to reserve your space!

REGISTRATION FORM Registration Deadline – April 11

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Grayling Chamber Business Expo Thursday, April 24, 2014

3:00 – 4:00 p.m. – VENDORS ONLY NETWORKING

4:00 – 7:00 p.m. – OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Former Hometown Furniture Building

(next to Family Fare / Grayling Mini Mall)

Meet hundreds of potential clients at the Grayling Chamber’s

largest networking event!

MARKET YOUR BUSINESS TO HUNDREDS on our Chamber Business Expo Bags!!

OFFER AVAILABLE FOR GRAYLING CHAMBER MEMBERS ONLY! ONLY 15 SPOTS AVAILABLE!

Business Card Size Ad - $100

Desiree Marshall of Interactive Development, LLC (local Chamber Member business) will be visiting with chamber members this week to offer up the opportunity to market your business to hundreds (500 bags to be printed) of community and business members on lime green promotional bags which will be given out to the public at not only our upcoming Chamber Business Expo, but to new residents to our area, and at other chamber events throughout the year! If you would like to snatch up one of these spots, please contact the Desiree Marshall at 989-302-7222 or 989-632-1117.

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NEW MEMBERS

Please join us in welcoming our newest Chamber Members:

DoTERRA International Ms. Nicole Mygrants, Independent Sales Rep

989-745-5861

Grayling, MI 49738

[email protected] / www.mydoterra.com/nicolemygrants

Member-to-Member Advantage Discount - Free 45 minute personal wellness consultation

Mi Mobile (OPENING IN EARLY APRIL) Mr. Scott Longendyke, Owner

989-915-8170

2316 S. I-75 Business Loop, Grayling, MI 49738

OPEN INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD TOMORROW (Friday, March 21st) from 9-11am at the new storefront

located at 2316 S. I-75 Business Loop, Grayling, MI 49738 (formerly the Gold Rush store located in the brick building in

the parking lot of Family Fare and the Grayling Mini Mall). This store will specialize in cell phone & tablet repair, buy,

sell & trade phones, new phones, no contract cell phone service, accessories, satellite TV, internet and more!

Please see the job description and details on Craigslist at http://nmi.craigslist.org/csr/4379375100.html.

Free Marketplace Insurance Help Meet with a CAC-Certified Application Counselor at the

AuSable Free Clinic

By appointment only call the AuSable Free Clinic at

989-348-0740

Are you eligible to apply for affordable

healthcare?

Why just pay a penalty when you may be able to have

affordable health insurance based on your family size and

income. There is a lot of inaccurate information floating

around, get the facts for your unique situation. Visit

www.AuSableFreeClinic.com for more information on

the Marketplace and The Healthy Michigan Plan

(expanded Medicaid).

You have until March 31st, 2014

to explore your Marketplace options

SIGN UP YOUR TEAM

for GPA’s Pictionary Olympics

Friday, April 25, 2014 from 7–10 p.m. at the Grayling Eagles Club

Team Registration – $40.00 per 4-person team

General ticket entry cost is $2.00/person

GPA Pictionary Olympics Cover Letter

Pictionary Olympics Registration Form

For more information, visit www.graylingpromotional.org.

Media Alert

Tanger Outlets West Branch reopened the following additional stores Monday, March 17th

at 9:00am:

Coach, Gymboree, GH Bass, Christopher & Banks, Famous Footwear, Izod, and Reebok

The above stores join the following stores that opened March 12th

: Ann Taylor Factory Store, Loft Outlet, Bath and Body Works, The Sweet

Life, Claire’s, Dressbarn, Java Junction, Wilsons Leather, Gap Outlet, Kitchen Collection, Old Navy Outlet, Carter’s Babies and Kids,

Rue21, Eddie Bauer Outlet, Easy Spirit Outlet and Shopper Services. Stores will be open normal business hours Monday through Saturday

9:00 AM until 9:00 PM and Sunday 10:00 AM until 7:00 PM. Shopper Services Hours have been extended to match store hours of operation

through April 30, 2014 to assist our customers. The remainder of the center continues to undergo the restoration process. Questions, please

contact 989-345-2594 or visit www.tangeroutlets.com.

Congratulations to Ilene Geiss-Wilson

of the Grayling Visitors Bureau for being awarded the

2014 CVB Star of the Year!!

Ilene was presented with this award at this month’s Pure Michigan Governor’s

Conference on Tourism. We are so proud of you and lucky to have you as

part of the Grayling community

Offer ends 3/31/2014

Register Open for Grayling Little League Registration forms are available below, and at Xpress copy and Sylvester’s Sports Shop. You may also mail in your registration

forms to PO Box 130, Grayling MI 49738. No Registrations accepted after April 12th

. Please understand a deadline must be

enforced so that we may gather coaches and draft players. Please help us spread the word to sign up before April 12th

. Thanks! Grayling Little League Flyer. 2014 Grayling Little League Registration Form. Grayling Little League Skills Clinic.

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For a complete list of events visit www.graylingchamber.com

GPS Premier Juried Photography Exhibit at AAV Mark your Calendars for the Grayling Photographic Society’s (GPS) premier juried photography exhibit to be held at the AuSable Artisan

Village (AAV). The exhibit will be on display from March 1st through March 28

th. The AAV is open from 11 to 5 Monday through

Saturday and 11 to 3 on Sundays. A special “Meet the Photographers Social” will be held the evening of March 2nd

from 6 to 7:30pm,

with a slide show at 6:30. Come join us for refreshments and an opportunity to speak directly with this diverse, talented group of

photographers. This is a free event and we invite the public to vote for their favorite image. Read More >>>

HUGE Used Book Sale ~ Tales are Better the Second Time Around Monday, March 17 through Friday, March 21 at Deveraux Memorial Library – The Friends of the Crawford County Library’s Winter

Book Sale. Sale Hours: Monday 1-7pm, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9am-7pm. On Friday March 21, 9am-4pm all books are $2.00

per bag. Huge selection of books: adult, children’s, cookbooks, mystery, hobbies, fiction, and non-fiction. Proceeds from sale help to

support library programming.

Forest Dunes Job Fair 2014 Saturday, March 22

nd or Saturday, April 5

th from 10am to 3pm each day at Forest Dunes Golf Club - Are you or someone you know

interested in working at a top 100 golf facility? We are hosting two job fair dates with on-site interviews in the coming weeks. Visit our job

fair page to print out an application and bring it with you on March 22 or April 5. Job Fair Information and Application Form.

Project Graduation Rummage Sale Saturday, March 22

nd from 10am to 4pm at the Hometown Furniture Building – VENDORS WANTED: $20/table. DONATIONS

WANTED: Will accept donations at Hometown Furniture on Saturday, March 15th

from 1-4 p.m. and Monday, March 17th

thru Friday,

March 21st from 5-8 p.m. We are looking for big ticket items to sell so look through your house and start Spring Cleaning now! Call Shelly

Adamski at 989-619-3106 for details.

Conquer Your Watercolor Fears #2 DATE CHANGE ~ Saturday, March 22

nd from 10am-5pm (lunch break from 1-2pm) at the AuSable Artisan Village – Back by request,

acclaimed artist Mary Guntzviller will hold another beginner to intermediate intensive watercolor workshop for adults for ONE DAY ONLY.

Cost is $75/person. Only 12 students accepted. Pre-registration (w/ payment) required by registering at the gallery or 989-275-5000, Ext. 279.

Maple Syrup Day Saturday, Mar. 22

nd from 10am to 4pm at Hartwick Pines State Park - Learn about the history of maple sugar

making in North America as you help tap a maple tree and observe the boil-down process which converts maple sap

into maple syrup. Of course, the day would not be complete without sampling this tasty Michigan product. Children

can participate in a variety of fun and educational hands-on activities among their unique experiences; they will

construct a paper version of a mokuk, a birchbark container used by native peoples to transport maple sugar. This

event is free of charge, although a Michigan State Parks Recreation Passport is required for park entry. For more

information, please send us an e-mail or telephone (989) 348-2537.

Hanson Hills and XC Ski HQ Paintball Biathlon Saturday, March 22

nd & Sunday, March 23

rd (two locations) - The second annual Hanson Hills/XC Ski HQ Paintball Biathlon Series

welcomes men, women, and kids to compete in this 2-day event, combining cross country skiing with paintball target shooting. Here’s how it

works: adult racers ski a 1-2km loop (kids go 0.5-1km), then get five shots at a target with a paintball gun. This is repeated five times, and

then the racers cross the finish line. For each target hit, we deduct 10 seconds from the skiers’ finish time. It’s a total blast! Saturday’s

racing will take place at Hanson Hills, and Sunday’s race and awards will be at Cross Country Ski Headquarters. Can’t come for both

days? Don’t worry, there will be prizes for single-day winners too! Paintball guns provided.

Lucky Leprechaun 5k Saturday, March 22

nd from 12–3pm beginning at Grayling Fitness Center - Wear your Green & Earn your beads!

Run, hop or crawl starts at the Grayling Fitness Center and ends (road conditions permitting) at The Ole’Barn! Stops along

the way forward & back ~ The Gray Rock, Spikes and Thanks A Latte. Collect your green beads along the journey! Entry

Donation is for The Grayling Animal Shelter! Contact the Grayling Fitness Club at 989-348-7199 for details.

Teens for Christ Concert/ Drama Sunday, March 23

rd at 11am in the Grayling High School Auditorium - This is a concert Drama performed by 80 + Christian teens.

Email Johanna Jurkovich at [email protected] for more information.

AuSable Free Clinic Open House, Quilt Raffle & Silent Auction Monday, March 24

th from 5-8pm at the AuSable Free Clinic (1200 West North Down River Rd, Grayling) – join us for an open house,

quilt (queen-size quilt) raffle and silent auction. Quilt raffle tickets available - $5 each or 3 for $10. Drawing will be from 5:00-5:30pm.

Proceeds to benefit the AuSable Free Clinic. For more information, call 989-348-0740.

Kirtland Hosting FREE Public Food Distribution Monday, March 25

th beginning at 1pm at Kirtland Community College Student Center (Roscommon) -

Kirtland Community College, Kirtland’s Phi Theta Kappa Alpha Omicron Gamma Chapter Honor Society,

Project Hope and the C.O.O.R. ISD are holding a FREE public food distribution. The event is open to students,

members of the Crawford, Ogemaw, Oscoda and Roscommon county communities, and anyone else in need of

assistance. The food distribution will begin at 1pm and will be available on a first come, first served basis.

People are asked to bring their own containers for carrying food and limited to one distribution per family. The

complete release can be viewed online at www.kirtland.edu/public-food-distribution .

Creating Confident Caregivers Workshop Begins Tuesday, March 25

th (6-week series) from 1-3pm at Grayling City Hall – Instructor: Robin Petruska, Certified Master Trainer.

Have you started to have difficulty communicating with your family member? Are you frustrated with his/her inability to do simple things?

Have you noticed changes in your family member’s mood or personality? Does your family member exhibit decreased judgment? If you

answered “yes” to any of these questions, this workshop will help. Free respite care is available while you attend classes. Ask for details

when registering. To register or for more info, call the Grayling Senior Center at 989-348-7123.

CCLS Book Club Tuesday, March 25

th at 5pm at Devereaux Memorial Library - Join adults in the community for friendship and a discussion of the book

of the month. March selection: “The First Phone Call from Heaven” by Mitch Albom.

Diabetes Support Group Tuesday, March 25

th from 5:30-6:30pm in the Crawford Room at Mercy Hospital Grayling – this monthly event is FREE and open to

the community. No prescription is needed to attend. Additional 2014 Dates.

Personal Finance Workshop – “Smart Investing through Charitable Giving” Tuesday, March 25

th from 6-8pm at Grayling Elementary School – “Smart Investing through Charitable Giving”. Suggested donation

of $10 for workshop (all proceeds are being donated to the Kirtland Foundation to support financial literacy needs in your community).

Seating is limited, so call Tomlyn Advisors at 989-745-5535 and reserve your place today. CLICK HERE for details.

Continuing Education Seminar for Experienced Builders – REGISTER BY MARCH 15TH

Wednesday, March 26

th at 1-4pm at Fred’s in Roscommon – presented by Home Builders Associated of North Central Lakes (formerly

Tri-Lakes Home Builders Association). Continuing education is required for ALL licensed builders in order to renew their residential

builder’s license. This seminar has been created especially for those EXPERIENCED BUILDERS who became licensed prior to January 1,

2009. The seminar will fulfill your Continuing Education requirement for the license cycle ending May 31, 2014. Don’t wait until the last

minute – meet your qualifications now by registering online, emailing or calling 989-275-3333 by March 15th

.

LAST BLAST Celebrity Server Dinner Wednesday, March 26

th from 5-8pm at Spike’s Keg O’ Nails - With their April 1

st deadline just days away, Crawford County United Way

is hoping one final fundraiser will boost its 2014 Allocation Fund to a more comfortable level. All tips and 10% of all food and non-alcoholic

beverage sales during this event will be donated to CCUW by Spike’s. Celebrities that evening will include Jeremy Bowers, Kirk Wakefield,

Chad Patterson, Ginger Lutz, Sheryl Coyne, and Maureen Barkume aka “Rock N Roll Mo”. Diners are encouraged to “hassle the help” and

tip them accordingly for the cause. Bring your family and friends and bring your appetites and smiles, too. We look forward to seeing you!

Taking Medications Safely and Keeping Your Medications Safe Breakfast Presentation Thursday, March 27

th at 9am at Grayling Senior Center – Crawford County Commission on Aging & Mercy Hospital Grayling invite you

to a breakfast presentation focusing on taking medications safely and keeping your medications safe. Presenters: Dr. DeYoung from Mercy

Family Practice, Bonnie Gaiser, Medication Access Coordinator at the AuSable Free Clinic and Shelley Hubbard from Catholic Human

Services. Presentation and breakfast is free of charge for Crawford County residents and open to the public. Out of County residents will be

charged $5. No reservations required, but donations are appreciated to help cover costs. Contact Karl Schreiner at (989) 348-7123 for info.

Cartoons keep You Loony Thursday, March 27

th at 3:30pm at Devereaux Memorial Library - Learn how to draw some characters that will make you smile.

Daniel House in Concert Thursday, March 27

th at 6pm at Grayling Senior Center – Dan’s repertoire for this performance will focus on old and new Celtic tunes to

fit with St. Patty’s Day. Finger style guitar, mandolin, and mountain dulcimer. No cost, donations gladly accepted. 989-348-7123 for info.

March Events at Grayling Eagles Club ~ Best Burgers in Town – 1

st & 3

rd Mondays from Noon – 7pm / Coney dogs served Tuesdays.

~ Dart League – Wednesdays at 1pm. Come join the fun!

~ Pool League – Tuesdays at 6pm / Free Pool on Thursdays.

~ Nascar Sundays – Starts at race time. Hot dogs & snacks.

~ Auxiliary 50/50 Drawing – Sunday, March 30th

at 6pm.

Ginger’s Going Away Party Wednesday, April 2

nd from approximately 3-6pm at Spike’s Keg O’ Nails - a going away party will be held for

Ginger Lutz of Blarney Stone Broadcasting as she will be moving out of the area. $5 pulled pork sandwich and $1.50

draft beer specials with desserts being provided by Judy Steffen and Rose Matheney. Ginger has been a valuable part of

GPA and an active member of the community since she moved here to work for Blarney Stone Broadcasting. Let’s give

her a big send-off and let her know how much she’ll be missed. Yes, she knows about the party, so it is not a surprise. If

you wish to make a donation to help Ginger with moving costs, please see Rose during the event.

Open Mic Night at Thanks A Latte’ Friday, April 4

th from 6-8pm at Thanks A Latte’ – come share your talent or just sit back and enjoy some of our fabulous local talent.

KCPA presents Red Green “How to Do Everything (from the man who should know)”

Saturday, April 5th

at 7pm at Kirtland Center for the Performing Arts (on the Kirtland Community College

Roscommon Campus) - After a successful run of 139 shows throughout Canada and the USA on his “Wit and

Wisdom Tour”, Red Green is back in theatres across North America in 2014 with a brand new show – How To Do

Everything – from the man that should know! Red Green, Canada’s foremost handyman, who became famous for such

things as duct tape, Possum Lodge, and his own unique style of humour and wisdom now shares his thoughts on “How

to do everything”. After establishing himself in fifteen seasons of his enormously popular TV show as one of the

world’s handiest men, he now shows there is no limit to his specialized knowledge and advice. Purchase tickets by

calling 989-275-6777 or online at www.kirtlandcenter.com.

Children’s Easter Party Saturday, April 12

th from 9-11am at the Grayling Eagles (Doors open at 9am) at the Grayling Eagle’s Club - Children ages 10 &

under. Breakfast is free for all children, $5.00 per adult. Visit from the Easter Bunny, Decorate eggs, Easter Egg Hunt and Baskets for all the

Children. Must sign up by April 4th

(No Exceptions!)

Reoccurring Winter & Weekly/Monthly Events

FREE Legal Assistance ~ Third Wednesday of each month from 1-3pm at the Grayling Senior Center. More>>>

Genealogy Group ~ Every Monday from 9am-Noon at Devereaux Memorial Library. More>>>

Children’s Book Club ~ Every Monday from 3-5pm at Devereaux Memorial Library. More>>>

Homework Lab ~ Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays from 3:30-4:30pm at Devereaux Memorial Library. More>>>

Sit & Knit Club ~ 1st Thursday (10am) and 2

nd Tuesday (5pm) of the month at Devereaux Memorial Library. More>>>

Story Hour ~ Every Wednesday at 11:15am at Devereaux Memorial Library. More>>>

Youth Knit Group ~ Every Wednesday at 3:30pm at Devereaux Memorial Library. More>>>

Open Mic Night at the Ole Barn ~ Every Wednesday from 6-11pm at The Ole Barn. More>>>

Crawford County Baby to Toddler Closet ~ 1st Thursday (11am-3pm) and 3

rd Thursday (11am-7pm). More>>>

Indoor Winter Farm Market Reopens for Season ~ Saturdays from 10am-3pm in the Grayling Mini Mall. More>>>