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Free meal in Norway Aug. 29

NORWAY — Grace United Methodist Church of Norway will offer a free community meal from 5 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28. The menu will include bratwurst, potato salad, baked beans and dessert. There is no cost for the dinner, but a donation basket will be available. The free meals will be available for take-out at the church parking lot. Reservations will be required for this meal. Call Chris Spense at 906-282-9752 by Friday, Aug. 26 by 4 p.m., if you would like to pick up a meal. Delivery will be made in Norway to those previously on the delivery list. Everyone is welcome. The ...

Rehearsals begin in September for Dickinson County Community Chorus

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Dickinson County Community Chorus will begin its annual Christmas season with the first rehearsal scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13. This rehearsal will begin preparations for the Sounds of Christmas concert. Rehearsals will be Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of the First Presbyterian Church, 395 Hamilton Ave. in Kingsford. The Christmas concert will be presented Nov. 28-29 at the Kingsford High School auditorium. The chorus will be under the leadership of principal conductor Crystal Hogan. Jean Panek and Jan Van Gasse will serve as ...

VBS planned next week in Quinnesec

QUINNESEC — A Vacation Bible School has been set for 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday at the Quinnesec Park Pavilion. The program is for ages 4 to 12. It is sponsored by the Quinnesec United Methodist Church and the Quinnesec Calvary Lutheran Church.

Mansfield Pioneer Church service set

MANSFIELD TOWNSHIP — The Mansfield Memories Committee will host its annual summer ecumenical service at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 21. The old pump organ will again accompany many favorite hymns and gospel songs. Lay Minister Nancy Reese of St. Rose Catholic Church in Channing will be the officiant. The committee extends an open invitation to anyone who wishes to attend and hopes that they will stay for fellowship and lunch to follow the service. No admission is ever charged, but a free-will offering will be conducted to help with expenses. This will be an outdoor service, ...

Food drive during the Fourth of July parade

IRON MOUNTAIN — First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Iron Mountain, reminding the public that hunger knows no season, asks for the community’s participation in its annual Independence Day Food Drive. Since 2006 volunteers have been pushing shopping carts in the parade to collect unexpired, non-perishable food items, personal care items, cleaning supplies and cash donations. As they pass by on the parade route flag them down to place your items in one of the shopping carts or a cash donation in one of the buckets. Items collected benefit the food pantry at First Lutheran Church ...

Churches join to open center for women to recover in Escanaba

ESCANABA — Catholics and Lutherans have joined forces to open the new Women’s Recovery Home in Escanaba. The home is for women, especially mothers with addictions, to learn to live soberly and then return to their families. The Rev. Terry Frankenstein, pastor of Bethany Lutheran ...