Events and Opportunities
June 21
• Gay Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary Bazaar & Sales, from noon – 3 p.m. Gay Community Hall 8878 2nd Street, Gay. This is the first sale of the year. We have new items arriving every week and now everything is on the main floor of the Community Center so we are full of goodies for the whole family. Each sale will have a Special Feature, this time, Perennials and Garden Accessories. Also, every sale will have new auction items to bid on. A free will donation lunch will be available for you to enjoy. Come join in the fun, have lunch and take home some good deals!
• Sat, Juhannus Bonfire 6 p.m. Agate Beach Park. The annual Juhannus Kokko (Bonfire) celebrates the longest day of the year, and the high point of summer. Coffee and bakery will be served at 6 p.m., and the bonfire will be lit on the beach at dusk.
June 23
• The regular monthly meeting of the Western U.P. Board of Health will be held at 6 p.m. at the Western U.P. Health Department, 540 Depot Street, Hancock. The meeting will also be available to attend via Google Meet. Information on connecting to this meeting can be found on the health department’s website, www.wuphd.org.
June 25
• Copper Country Community Mental Health Services’ Board meeting will be held at 5 p.m. in the Boardroom at Copper Country Mental Health’s Rice Memorial Center in Houghton.
July 4
• Wanted vendors for the South Range 4th of July Flea/Famers Market. Frp, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Veterans Memorial Park. No Fee Required.
July 5
Houghton High School class of 1980 will celebrate its 45th reunion July 5-6. For more information visit hpts.us/alumni-reunion.php or contact Sue Nara Lutz, suelutz0235@gmail.com | (906) 370-4546.
July 6
• Range Lions Blueberry & Buttermilk Pancake Breakfast with Vollwerth Sausage. 8 a.m. to noon at the Range Lounge in South Range. $8 donation, preschool children are free. There will be a bake sale by the Jeffers High School Travel Club.
• July 9
‘How Sundials Helped Settle the American Frontier,’ by Mark Montgomery, 7 p.m. Eagle Harbor Community Center. Learn how William Burt came to invent the sun compass, used to further westward expansion in the U.S., as well as how this surveying instrument relates directly to U. P. history. Suggested donation: $5/person, part of Keweenaw County Historical Society’s “Adventures in History.”
July 17
Houghton High School class of 1965 celebrate its 60th reunion July 17-18. All members of the class and their guests are welcome to attend. For more information and specific details on how to register, visit the districts website at: hpts.us/alumni-reunion.php