Reminders:
Continue to join us via Zoom each week. Don't forget you can call in if you are on the move!
Keep working to sell raffle tickets!! Sell until 10/01/2020 and return $$ and unsold tickets to Mundts @800 Bowes Rd, Lowell, MI 49331
Stay tuned for updates to the April 2021 Auction
Announcements:
Congrats to the latest Paul Harris recipients! (Look for an article in the Ledger)
Roger L +1, Sylvia T +6, Carol D-S (new), Jan T (new), and Jodie S (new)
Wendie from Flat River Outreach Ministries is asking you to take 5 minutes to fill out a survey by the Kent County Health Department. With enough respondents from the 49331 zip code information can be shared with FROM to help them with their mission.
"Every three years, Kent County conducts a community health needs assessment (CHNA). The CHNA helps communities, organizations, and local health systems identify the major health-related challenges residents are facing. The issues identified will be the focus of health improvement efforts in the county for the next three years."
Sept 10th @6pm: Social, in person! At Evert's house. Dick B will be there! Let Evert know if you can make it
https://forms.gle/29U1vdH7UfGv77AS8
Sept 26th @AM: Community Clean Up Day. Sign up below!
https://forms.gle/YzPzjPPgDxjENfT87
Happy $s:
Evan shared how monies were raised for AEDs for Arrowhead and Morrison Lake golf courses.
Jim W celebrates his and a grandson's birthday this week.
This Week:
March began with excitement for their spring line up and ended with working how to get their spring school programming available online for teachers to use. With great success they got the immersion program up on YouTube for the kids at Alto and Cherry Creek, 9 classes plus!
Other projects they have been working on to share Lowell's history:
1. The
ABC's of Lowell via email, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and the Ledger: A weekly post on a portion of Lowell's history
2.Sunday night
oral history via HS radio (on hiatus for the summer). They are working to convert VHS oral histories to digital and then will relaunch the program.
3.Capturing current history by surveying residents to understand what they are experiencing.
Share a memory here :D4.Online summer camp: 41 kids participated via 3 activity kits and videos.
5.Reopening of the physical building: Come visit both the museum and the Fur Cabin on Thursdays.
7.They are currently working on the histories of the business buildings in the historic district to share with the building owners.
8.In November they plan to share a series on Lowell Veterans.
9.And once again working with the schools on remote/online learning. Typically area 1st and 3rd graders have a field trip in the fall programmed by the museum.
Have a wonderful week!
