School board offers advice for students, parents

With the school year beginning Sept. 8 for Lake Orion Community Schools, board of education members have offered advice steming from their time on the board and their experiences as parents. ~ Megan Hess President Bill Walters ? Help your child read and help them with their homework. Spend time with your child in any […]

LO hosts Girls Lacrosse Day

Lake Orion was chosen to host a Girls Lacrosse Association of Michigan lacrosse clinic, Sunday, Sept. 13. Lacrosse Coaches Debbie and Bill Booth will head up the event. To register, email angie@glamlax.com with name, age, address and shirt size. The clinic is for girls in grades five through high school who have never played lacrosse […]

Kids demo coding at Capitol

Coding Club students from Clarkston Community Schools were among nearly 30 schools in Michigan participating in the 14th annual Student Technology Showcase on Dec. 3 at the State Capitol Building in Lansing. Students used computers and other electronic devices to show elected members of the Michigan State Senate and the House of Representatives how technology […]

Artist helps bring Christmas to classics

Clarkston art teacher Jessica Hall was one of 30 art teachers from around the world illustrating the new children’s book, ‘If Picasso Had a Christmas Tree.? Her piece emulates the classic painting ‘Birth of Venus? by Sandro Botticelli, with a Christmas tree in place of the newborn Venus. ‘I chose Botticelli as a challenge,? Hall […]

BBQ chicken at Howarth Church

The public is invited to Howarth Church at 550 E. Silverbell Road for a barbecue chicken dinner. The dinner will be Saturday, Sept. 19 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. For more information, call 248-373-2360.

Engagement

John and Lurene Fisher of Lake Orion announce the engagement of their daughter, Chelsea Lurene Fisher to JT Schutz. JT is the son of Jeff and Michelle Schutz of Imlay City. Chelsea and JT met singing karaoke in December of 2007. Chelsea graduated from Oakland University and JT from the University of Michigan- Flint. Chelsea […]

Spiritual Matters

Cleveland, Phoenix, Las Vegas, West Virginia, New York, Ferguson, and the list goes on. Grief, outrage, sympathy, media circus, concern, everyone is affected by these events. We open our hearts and minds in prayer for all of us to realize a greater level of peace, wholeness and abundance in divine order and divine timing. The […]

Jazzy Christmas

Jazz star’Alexander Zonjic’will host a’Jazzy Christmas Concert featuring special guest, Detroit’s?’Queen of the Blues?’Thornetta Davis. The musical celebration is 4 p.m., on Sunday, Dec. 14 at the Calvary Lutheran Church, 6805 Bluegrass Drive. The concert is free, with free-will contribution to Blessings in a Backpack of Clarkston, helping hungry kids in Clarkston Community Schools. Zonjic […]

Wedding

Garett and Krystal (Bedtelyon) Smith Mr. and Mrs. Gary Smith, of Lake Orion, announce the wedding of their son, Garett Adam Smith, to Krystal Marie Angelica Bedtelyon. Krystal is the daughter of Roberta and Wade Moore and Kenneth Bedtelyon, all of Montrose. The groom is a graduate of Lake Orion schools and Oakland University. He […]

Thanks for the memories, Orion

Well, Lake Orion, I don’t how to break it to you, so I’ll do it quick, like ripping off a Band-Aid. I’m leaving. I know, I know. I feel the same way, but there’s no reason for weeping. It was fun while it lasted, wasn’t it? My year in town has been great, it’s just […]