This Week

Mom 2 Mom Sale, Tawas, May 18th-
at Clara Bolen Elementary School from 9AM - 12PM. Table rental is only
$10. This is a great opportunity to clean out your children's closets
and toy boxes. Sale items may include baby/children/maternity items,
baby furniture, toys, books, games and sports attire or equipment.
Contact Carrie at 362-6345 for table rental and more information. All
proceeds benefit the Clara Bolen PTO.
Iosco
Co. Firefighter's Golf Tournament Fundraiser, Hale, May 19th - Iosco
County Firefighter's Association is having their annual Peter O. Brinkman
Golf Tourney with 100% of proceeds to be spent on firefighter safety and
training in Iosco County. Shotgun start at 1PM at Wicker Hills Golf Course
in Hale. 18-hole, 4-person scramble. Cost is $50 per player
($200 per team) and first prize is $200. Lunch and soft drinks
provided on the course, beer cart available. Hole sponsors welcome.
Registration or for more information, please call Bob Marx at 989-362-6781.
Jazz
All-Stars Concert, Oscoda, May 23th
- at 7PM at the Oscoda High School Auditorium. Students from Oscoda,
Hale and Tawas Area High Schools will play select favorites by jazz greats
such as Count Basie and Duke Ellington as well as other familiar tunes.
The concert will conclude with the groups playing "Ain't Misbehavin" in
concert together. The event is free of charge but donations are
welcome.
Tawas
Uncorked Poster Design Contest,
Tawas,
May 24th -
Calling all local artists to design a poster that captures the spirit of the
Wine Festival. Themes may include beautiful Tawas Bay, Wine Festival, Food
and Ale. $100 first prize and poster will be sold at the event. Entries due
by Friday, May 24 to Neiman's Family Market by noon. For more information,
call Mac at 989-362-9660.
Holy
Spokes Bicycle Ride, Oscoda, May 25th
- The first annual ride will take place Saturday from 10AM at the
Oscoda United Methodist Church on River Road. The Ride is an easy 20
or challenging 40 mile ride. Entry fee is $25. Check in time is
8:30AM. The ride is a fundraiser for the Oscoda United Methodist
Church Youth Group. For more information, call 989-820-0858.
Breeze
on the Bay, East Tawas, June 1st
- Tawas bay kite festival from 10AM - 6PM at the Harbor Park. This
free family event will feature stunt kites, kite boarding, kids' kite flying
workshop, flying giants and candy drop and more. Presented by Kiteman
Jack's.
Shopping
for Hidden Treasures, Standish, June 5th
- We sell for you consignment store with Karen Wiltse and Cheryl Wood
of Standish and antique appraiser Sandy Brugger of Tawas.
This free program will show the difference between antique and vintage, how
to recognize treasures at garage sales, an idea of "what's hot and what's
not", how to use the internet to price items. Questions, call
989-737-6718.
Wilber
Township Cleanup Saturday, June 8th, 8AM - 11AM - The township's
annual spring cleanup will offer receptacles for scrap metal and tires as
well as packer trucks for general refuse at the township hall. Items
NOT accepted are building materials, concrete,
cement blocks, stones and bricks, asphalt, dirt and yard waste, dead
animals, animal or human waste, hazardous or liquid materials, contaminated
soils, asbestos, paints, solvents, petrol products and herbicides, any items
generally more than 5 ft. in length or extremely bulky, appliances
containing Freon (appliances must be certified as Freon-Free).
Residents are asked to please assist with the unloading and dumping of their
waste.
Northeast
Michigan Regional Farm Market, Tawas, Now thru Sep.
- The Farm market will take place every Saturday from 8AM - 1PM in
the Episcopal Church parking lot at the corner of Sawyer and Westover
Streets in East Tawas. Fresh fruits, vegetables, jams, jellies, baked goods
and flowers. For more information, call 362-3531.
Submit your
event by faxing to 989-362-4544 or mailing to P.O. Box 549 Tawas City, MI
48764. Call for email address.
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Due to a new streaming
company WIOS radio's audio stream may require the installation of
Silverlight from
Microsoft. This is a legitimate application that's
acts as a replacement for old Flash players. You will need Silverlight
to listen to the new audio stream origination from SurferNetwork. IE6 users (Windows 2000
or older), must use no version of Silverlight newer than 4.1.1.
Windows 2000 Pro users
may download
Silverlight 4.1.10329.0 here (File is hosted on our
server as a direct link). Some Users may experience problems with Internet
Explorer 6 or 7 when using Silverlight. The player box may not load in
some cases. A work-around for the problem is to install Mozilla Firefox.
Users of Windows 2000 SP4 cannot use any version of FireFox higher than version
13. Mozilla
FireFox version 13 can be found here. (File is hosted on our
server as a direct link). If you still cannot resolve the streaming issue
after loading FireFox please call us to give you an alternate method of
listening at 989-362-3417.
Wi-Fi Radio users, follow the
link on the lower right of this page.
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