To the DNR for a gas-saving idea, the opening of the Sara Hardy Farmers' Market, Eric Hahn, the Inland Seas Education Association, the U.S. Forest Service, Don Hayden, Jr., the Grand Traverse Resort and Spa, and parents of students at Bertha Vos Elementary.
There are "I don't believe that" stories. And then there are the others. A 2-year-old boy left alone in the yard of a Charlevoix County house climbed on to a child-sized Suzuki four-wheeler Sunday morning, started it up and drove over the edge of a five-foot cellar embankment.
Cheers to the DEQ, hundreds of students from more than 30 northern Michigan schools, Friends of the Sleeping Bear Dunes, Carly Moore, Sleeping Bear officials, Curtis Warnes, and Glen Lake Community Schools.