Healthy Hearty Harvest Feast

Thursday October 29 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the AuTrain Township Community building,

the Citizen Reach program features a FREE fun autumn cooking class by

MSU Extension's Vicki Ballas

The theme of Vicki's class will be a healthy hearty harvest feast including

HUBBARD SQUASH SOUP PUMPKIN BEAN BURGERS

APPLE PIE SMOOTHIES

Please join in and find out just how good healthy food can taste. Any questions, please call Vicki Ballas at 387-2530 or Citizen Reach coordinator Frank Castiglione at 387-3196.

BE SMART, BE HEALTHY,

BE THERE

every last Thursday of the month.

June 25 Citizen Reach Event

Citizen Reach Event May 28

Cooking Class April 30 at AuTrain Township Hall

The cooking class given by MSU's Vicki Ballas ,along with the presentation by Alger County Commission on Aging's Kris Lindquist and Rachel Nadeau was a success! There were approximately two dozen people in attendance. The food was great. I learned about some things I can do to easily make my home safer.

Celebrating Nutrition

In My Opinion Letter to the Editor

In last weeks Munising News “memories” column, thirty-five years ago AuTrain Township was celebrating its new township hall with a soup dinner. It took a lot of work from citizens for this new hall to become a reality; there are some great memories indeed. AuTrain Township’s population has grown and now stretches out with three areas of village like nature. However I have found recently, that something about AuTrain hasn’t changed. Better said, something about Alger County hasn’t changed. There are a lot of fantastic caring people living here. Some just moved here, some are descendants from many generations of pioneers. I recognized this while visiting the area thirty-five years ago. I was impressed with the beauty of both the environment and the people, impressed enough to pull up stakes and move here in 1976.

Over the last few weeks I have been trying to organize a “Citizen Reach” event at the AuTrain Township Hall. Many organizations, nine in all, have been gracious enough to be there Monday Feb 16 from 9:30 till around noonish. I believe the entire spectrum of our community will benefit. Whether you are a teen, senior citizen, artist, vet, disabled, extremely active or somewhere in between; something will be there for you. What impressed me was how so many citizens have willingly helped, thank you, thank you so very much.

If you are reading this, you are invited, bring a friend. There will be homemade goodies and coffee. Bring curiosity, a smile, some of your best cookies, and a good story. I guarantee you will leave knowing more about some great things available to you, and our community will also learn from your wisdom. It’s all good, make it better by being there.

Frank Castiglione

387-3196