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Spring Art and Music Festival to offer family fun June 10

By Wade Wainio  Posted 05/28/2006 

HOUGHTON -- The 5th Annual Spring Art and Music Festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 10, on the Houghton Waterfront (between the UPPCO building and the new Portage Lake District Library) and will coincide with a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Library. Sponsored by the City of Houghton and the Copper Country Community Arts Center (CCCAC), the festival will include an art fair with demonstrating artists, a Giant Puppet Parade, a lively variety of music by local and regional musicians, a brat roast, an extreme bake sale and Copper Country Suzuki's Striding for Strings family race fundraiser. more
Photo: At the 2005 Spring Art and Music Festival Striding for Strings event, racers, ages 7 to 9, take off for their 1 km (0.62 mile) run. (Keweenaw Now file photo © 2005 Michele Anderson)

CCGAP to hold annual Guatemala fund-raising dance party, accompanier presentation May 20

Posted 05/17/2006 

HANCOCK -- The Copper Country Guatemala Accompaniment Project (CCGAP) has two events planned for Saturday, May 20. CCGAP will sponsor its annual fund-raising party at 7 p.m. in the community hall of Finlandia University's Portage Campus (the old Portage Hospital in Hancock). Events include a raffle for Guatemalan prizes, including two lovely hand-woven bedspreads and framed photos of children taken by jd slack; dance music by the Uptown Swingsters (John and Julia Munson, Bob Norden, Oren Tikkanen and Randy Seppala) -- swing standards, rhythm and blues, waltzes and polkas; several Spanish songs with Sue Ellen Kingsley and Norm Kendall. At noon on Saturday, at the First United Methodist Church in Hancock, CCGAP’s latest accompanier, Laura MacDonald, will share some of her experiences as a human rights observer in a Guatemalan village. Soup will be served. For more information, call Sue Ellen Kingsley at 482-6827.

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