PWPL Presents: Preschool Storytime
2025-10-03 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-10-07 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-10-10 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-10-14 10:00 - 10:30 UTC | Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front Street, Marquette, MI, 49855
Tuesdays & Fridays, October (3, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28, 31), 2025. 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Peter White Public Library Great Room.
Stories, songs, finger-plays, crafts and other school-readiness activities for preschool age children and a loving adult.
Preschool age children. Siblings welcome.
No admission charge.
For more information and to check the status of the program, call 906-226-4323 or visit www.pwpl.info.

PWPL Presents: Cultivating Care, Compassion, and Connection
2025-10-03 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front Street, Marquette, MI, 49855
Fridays, October (3, 10, 17, 24, 31) 2025. Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Peter White Public Library, Heritage Room.
In partnership with several area organizations, this hour-long event offers a safe space to pause, reflect, and build meaningful connections with others who are committed to cultivating kindness in our world. Each week, a different organization takes the lead, with experienced educators and leaders facilitating. This rotating format ensures diverse perspectives and practices while maintaining a shared commitment to the Charter for Compassion and the Circle of Trust principles.
For more information and to check on the status of the program, call 906-226-4303 or visit www.pwpl.info.

PWPL Presents: LEGO Club
2025-10-03 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front Street, Marquette, MI, 49855
Fridays, October (3, 10, 17, 24), 2025. 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Peter White Public Library Great Room.
Meet other LEGO enthusiasts and build LEGO projects with the library’s LEGO blocks.
Family friendly, children under the age of 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
No admission charge.
For more information and to check the status of the program, call 906-226-4323 or visit www.pwpl.info.

Marquette Regional History Center presents: 4th Biennial Lake Superior Fiber Festival
2025-10-04 09:30 - 16:00 | Marquette Regional History Center, 145 W. Spring Street, Marquette, Michigan
Saturday, October 4, 2025, from 9:30am-4:00pm at the Marquette Regional History Center
Enjoy colorful displays of quilts, knits and other fiber arts. Watch several creative or educational demos, plus, submit your own creations to the Fashion Show! Win door prizes such as books, patterns, yarn and more. Take home free hands-on arts and crafts activities. Fun for all ages! Included with general admission fee.
Lake Superior Fiber Festival is an open-house event. Come anytime 9:30-4:30.. Great for all ages including families, clubs and individuals. General admission fee will cover entry to the museum and to Fiber Festival. Sponsor level museum members and above receive free admission.
For more info visit marquettehistory.org or call 906.226. 3571
Fashion Show at Fiber Festival
October 4, 12:30pm
This will be a fun way to show your talents! Flaunt your socks, mittens, hats, sweaters, scarves,
shawls, purses and any other sewn, quilted, woven, felted, knitted, crocheted or embroidered
garments and accessories. This informal show will begin at 12:30pm and will last about 30
minutes. Consider wearing more than one handmade item. Children are welcome to participate.
Rosemary Michelin will be the emcee at the show.
Pick up and submit item description forms to the MRHC by Friday, October 3 by 12:00pm.
For questions regarding this Pop-up Fashion show, please contact Rosemary at (906) 475-9308 or wmichelin@aol.com

PWPL & Meditate Marquette Presents: A Year of Mindful Living
2025-10-04 10:00 - 11:30 | Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front Street, Marquette, MI, 49855
Saturday, October 4, 2025. 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Peter White Public Library, George Shiras III Room.
Four mindfulness meditation and yoga teachers invite you to engage in a year of mindful living. Each month, one of the teachers will present a topic that addresses the different dimensions where we can practice mindfulness and presence. The intent is for us to cultivate mindfulness, care, and well-being individually and in our love, business, and social relationships. These are drop-in sessions, although committing to a full year is a way to build a consistent mindfulness practice.
For more information and to check on the status of the program, call 906-226-4303 or visit www.pwpl.info.

PWPL Presents: Saturday Storytime
2025-10-04 11:00 - 11:30, 2025-10-11 11:00 - 11:30 | Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front Street, Marquette, MI, 49855
Saturdays, October (4, 11, 18, 25), 2025. 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Peter White Public Library Great Room.
Songs, rhymes, stories and finger-plays geared towards babies through preschool with a loving adult.
Older siblings and older children are welcome.
No admission charge.
For more information and to check the status of the program, call 906-226-4323 or visit www.pwpl.info.

PWPL Presents: Art with Ella
2025-10-04 13:00 - 15:00 | Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front Street, Marquette, MI, 49855
Saturday, October (4 & 18). 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Peter White Public Library Great Room.
Join NMU Art Education major Ella and create art! Kids of all ages are welcome – the techniques used will be adaptable for kids of all ages and abilities.
All supplies provided, drop-in program.
Children under the age of 8 must have an adult in the program with them.
No admission charge.
For more information and to check the status of the program, call 906-226-4323 or visit www.pwpl.info.

PWPL Presents: Toddler Storytime
2025-10-06 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-10-09 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-10-13 10:00 - 10:30 | Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front Street, Marquette, MI, 49855
Mondays & Thursdays, October (2, 6, 9, 13, 16, 20, 23, 27, 30), 2025. 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Peter White Public Library Great Room.
For children 18 to 36 months with a loving adult,siblings welcome. Stories and songs to engage the curious mind and wiggly body, followed by sensory play activities.
No admission charge.
Registration not required.
For more information and to check the status of the program, call 906-226-4323 or visit www.pwpl.info.

Marquette County Health Department Community Vaccine Clinics
2025-10-06 10:00 - 13:00 | Negaunee Senior Center, 410 Jackson St, Negaunee, MI, 49866, United States
For those interested in receiving 2025-2026 seasonal flu & COVID vaccines.

Negaunee Senior Center – 10.06 10:00am – 1:00pm
Ishpeming Senior Center – 10.15 10:00am – 1:00pm
Republic School Gym – 10.16 4:30pm – 6:00pm

PWPL Presents: Baby Storytime
2025-10-08 10:00 - 10:30 | Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front Street, Marquette, MI, 49855
Wednesdays, October (1, 8, 15, 22, 29) 2025. 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Peter White Public Library Great Room.
Songs, rhymes, stories and finger-plays for newborns to 17 months with a loving adult.
Older siblings are welcome.
No admission charge.
For more information and to check the status of the program, call 906-226-4323 or visit www.pwpl.info.

City Of Negaunee Regular Meeting
2025-10-09 06:30 - 18:30 | Negaunee Senior Center, 410 Jackson St, Negaunee, MI, 49866, United States
City Of Negaunee Regular Meeting
October 9, 2025 @ 6:30 P.M.
Negaunee Senior Center, 410 Jackson St (Tobin St. Entrance)

Call To Order
Pledge To Flag
Roll Call
Approval Of Agenda
Public Comment (3 Min. Limit)
Public Hearings

2026 Proposed Budget
Ordinance Amendment #154 Rental Ordinance 2nd Reading

Unfinished Business
New Business

Garbage Bids
Usda Draw And Change Order – Phase 1 Water Project And Non Participating
Cci Land Purchase Discussion

Consent Agenda

Minutes – September 11th Regular Minutes, October 2nd Special Budget Minutes
Claims And Accounts
Revenue/Expenditure Trial Balance Reports
Budget Adjustments

Public Comment (3 Min. Limit)
Council Members
City Manager
City Attorney
Adjournment

Feeding America Mobile Food Pantry
2025-10-09 10:00 - 11:30 | Silver Creek Church, 219 Silver Creek Rd, Marquette, MI, 49855, United States
Silver Creek Church and Silver Creek Thrift are partnering with Feeding America West Michigan to host a Mobile Food Pantry. Taking place on Thursday, October 9. Food distribution will begin at 10:00am and continue while supplies last or until 11:30am. Food will be available for approximately 550 families. Due to changes with Feeding America West Michigan, proxy pickup will be limited. This will be a drive-thru event with directions given by parking lot attendants. Guests are asked to remain in their cars and have adequate space prepared in their trunk or back seat in advance to allow the distribution team to place food boxes directly in the vehicle. Silver Creek Church and Silver Creek Thrift are located at 219 Silver Creek Road in Harvey. Businesses or organizations that are interested in supporting these monthly mobile food pantries are encouraged to call 906.249.1715 for more information.

Mind Over Miles 5K
2025-10-09 17:30 | Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan
In honor of World Mental Health Day, Northern Michigan University Wellbeing Promotions is gearing up for its second annual Mind Over Miles 5K at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9.
The event encourages attendees to open conversations surrounding mental health and reduce the stigma around receiving help. Participants will run or walk a scenic loop through NMU’s campus, starting and finishing at the Wildcat Statue near Jamrich Hall.
A new addition to this year’s event is the Cats to 5K training program, which invites faculty, staff and students to prepare for race day together. With beginner and intermediate options, the program makes the event accessible to a wide range of fitness levels. Faculty and staff sessions are being led by colleagues, while student sessions are peer-led.
Registration for the event is available through NMU’s ticketing site and will remain open until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 5. T-shirt sales will close earlier, at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 14. Same-day registration will not be offered; however, participants may pick up packets on Wednesday, Oct. 8, from 3-6 p.m. in the Jamrich 1100 lobby or on race day between 4:30-5:15 p.m. Superior Timing will provide official race timing.
The celebration will continue after the main event with refreshments provided by Embers Credit Union. Top finalists in the female, male and non-binary categories will be recognized with gift cards from Queen City Running Company. Volunteer opportunities are available, and more information can be found on the event’s landing page, nmu.edu/wellbeing.

Northern Tier, Artist Reception Finnish American artist Eric Aho
2025-10-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Finnish American Heritage Center, 435 Quincy Street, Hancock, Michgian, 49930
The Finlandia Art Gallery and Finlandia Foundation National (FFN) are pleased to present Northern Tier, an exhibition of oil paintings by Finnish American artist Eric Aho. The exhibit will be on display from September 18 to November 13, 2025, at the Finlandia Art Gallery, located in the Finnish American Heritage Center in Hancock.
A reception for the artist will take place on Thursday, October 9, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m., with an artist talk beginning at 7:20 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Aho will also be participating in Finlandia Foundation’s first Artist in Residency program, coming to the Copper Country in early October to find inspiration in our lush forests and pristine shoreline. During his residency, Aho will complete several finished artworks which will be on display alongside 25 works sent from his Vermont studio.
FFN recognized Eric Aho as Artist of the Year from 2022-2024, honoring his outstanding contributions to contemporary art and celebrating his deep connections to his Finnish American culture and traditions. This exhibition and residency serve as a culmination to his contributions as Artist of the Year.
Aho is a third-generation Finnish American living in Vermont. His grandfather emigrated to the United States in 1903, followed by his grandmother and uncle in 1906. His aunt and father were born in the Finnish community of Sugar Creek, Ohio, in 1917 and 1920, respectively. Shortly after his father’s birth, the family relocated to the vibrant Finnish community in Fitchburg and Townsend, Massachusetts.
Aho maintains strong personal and professional ties to his ancestral Finland and credits his Finnish American upbringing as a continuing source of inspiration and influence in his work.
His paintings represent the Finnish way of life, strongly connected to nature, sauna and community. In his Finlandia Art Gallery exhibit Northern Tier, Aho will exhibit paintings that are shaped by both memory and direct observation of northern boreal forests, forests that stretch across high northern latitudes. Providing a particularly rich and complex subject for Aho, northern boreal forests represent both a biome and a wellspring for his imagination. For many years, Aho has painted across vast geographic locations, from the northern United States to the Laurentian Mountains of Canada, and across to Scandinavia and the Finnish taiga.
“These trees-along with their verdant understories and varied terrains, often punctuated by streams, rapids, and glacial erratics-register in my eye and imagination as the forests central to our archetypal associations,” says Aho. “My forest paintings, like much of my work, invite multiple meanings and interpretations. I’m inclined to suggest unseen human presence in the forest through the materiality of paint itself. Oil color oozes and tenses, puckers and shines, drawing our attention to the human-like qualities of the forest beyond the limbs, trunks, veins, and crowns we share in common.”
“Forests are wild and mysterious places, but they are also familiar refuges,” continues Aho. “At times, they’re grand and architectural-cathedral-like, with arcades, columns, vaults, and aisles. Other woods are smaller and feel intimate. Their spaces, organized like rooms, hallways, foyers, and thresholds, evoke the places we live in and inhabit. In these ways, the Northern Tier paintings are as much about worlds within the forested places as they are about the world of paint and its magical ability to transform space and time.”
Northern Tier will be on display through November 13, 2025.

'Beethoven and Banjos' Highlights Icelandic Music at NMU
2025-10-10 19:30 | Reynolds Recital Hall, 2212 Hedgcock, Marquette, MI, 49855, United States
Northern Michigan University’s Siril Concert Series will present a “Beethoven and Banjos” concert featuring classical and folk music from Iceland at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in Reynolds Recital Hall. The featured artists will also present two free events earlier that day in the same location: a music appreciation presentation at 11 a.m., followed by a masterclass at 1 p.m.
Beethoven and Banjos is an annual project organized by the Northwoods Music Collaborative that blends classical and traditional styles into innovative performances. The program integrates musicians from around the world to create new music and fresh interpretations of older works.
This year’s concert will highlight Icelandic music with cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir and composer Halldór Smárason, who will join project founder Evan Premo and folk musician Laurel Premo. Evan also collaborates with Sæunn through his work with Decoda, an affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall.
Tickets for the concert are $12 for general admission and free for NMU students and those under 18. They can be purchased at nmu.universitytickets.com.
Learn more about the Siril Concert Series and other NMU Department of Music performances at nmu.edu/music. To learn more about the featured artists, go to northwoodsmusiccollaborative.org/beethoven-and-banjos.

The Oct. 10 Beethoven and Banjos concert will feature (clockwise from top left):
Laurel Premo,
Evan Premo,
Halldór Smárason and
Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir.

UP200 DRYLAND DASH
2025-10-11 00:00 - 2025-10-12 23:59
42 M-35, Negaunee, MI 49866
Dates: October 11, 2025 – October 12, 2025
Watch Sled dog racing in October without the snow and cold! Teams race throughout the trails, rain or shine, all weekend at the Negaunee Township Hall Park! Instead of a sled, Mushers will use bicycles, scooters, wheeled rigs or run behind the dogs (canicross).

Check out the UP200 Website to learn more about the event, how to participate, or ways to lend a hand!

2025-10-12 12:00 - 15:00 | UPaws, 815 M-553, Gwinn, MI, 49841, United States
The Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter (UPAWS) will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary on Sunday, October 12, 2025, from 12 – 3 pm at the shelter location, 815 South State Highway M533, Gwinn.

UPAWS will be hosting a celebration party in the community room with snacks and an anniversary cake. There will also be a shelter open house with tours of the facility.

The first 100 people will receive door prizes and names added to a drawing for Paws Park Pass, and other fun prizes.

Questions contact 906-869-4054 or email fundraising@upaws.org

UPAWS is a 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation supported by tax-deductible donations; We are not government funded. We are a local nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to taking care of the homeless animals here in this community.

PWPL Presents: School's Out, Library's In: Minecraft!
2025-10-13 12:00 - 17:00 | Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front Street, Marquette, MI, 49855
Monday October 13, 2025. 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Peter White Public Library Lower Level. Come have fun at the library for some Minecraft themed fun for kids of all ages! The new “A Minecraft Movie” will begin at 12:45pm in the Community Room – popcorn provided during the movie (or kids are welcome to bring a snack or lunch) and make Minecraft Self Portraits while you watch the movie! Drop-in activities will run from 12-5 in the kids’ room, including LEGO building Minecraft style in the Makerspace and building with big blocks in the Great Room.
No admission charge.
Children under 8 must have an adult present.
For more information and to check the status of the program, call 906-226-4323 or visit www.pwpl.info.

PWPL Presents: Craft Magic Series: Felt Magic with Jody Trost
2025-10-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front Street, Marquette, MI, 49855
Monday, October 13, 2025, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Peter White Public Library Shiras Room. Teens, Family, Adults, Seniors. Join fiber artist Jody Trost for a Beginner Needle Felting Workshop. Learn basic needle felting and leave with your very own handmade felted Zombie Head Magnet. Felting starter kits and wool provided. Please bring a small pair of scissors.
Space is limited to ten participants, so register early.
No admission charge.
Register at www.pwpl.info.
For more information, contact Marty at 226-4322, machatz@pwpl.info, or visit www.pwpl.info.

PWPL Presents: Tech Coaching for Seniors
2025-10-14 10:00 - 13:00 | Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front Street, Marquette, MI, 49855
Tuesdays and Thursdays, October 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30, 2025. 10 AM – 1 PM.
Peter White Public Library Heritage Room. Need help with the settings on your phone? Want to download the downtown parking app? Learn how to make your electronic devices work the way you want them to with the help of Christine Ault, retired teacher and librarian.
Call the Reference Desk at 906-226-4311 to schedule your 30-minute session.
Please charge your electronic device before each session, and bring passwords with you.
No fees.

PWPL Presents: Tasty Reads Book Group
2025-10-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front Street, Marquette, MI, 49855
Tuesday, October 14, 2025. 12:00 p.m. -1:30 p.m.
Peter White Public Library Heritage Room. A book group for readers, who love to cook. With a focus on food-themed literature, the group explores a variety of books from cookbooks to culinary memoirs. Participants can enjoy tasty treats inspired by the book of the month while sharing their thoughts and connecting with others who share their passion for both literature and food. This month’s book is Butter by Asako Yuzuki.
No admission charge.
For more information call 226-4303 or visit www.pwpl.info.

PWPL Presents: Muggles for Potter Grades 3-6
2025-10-14 16:30 - 17:30 | Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front Street, Marquette, MI, 49855
Tuesday, October 14, 2025. 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Peter White Public Library Great Room. This month hear the book read aloud while enjoying butterbeer, ever flavor jellybeans.
For more information and to check the status of the program, call 906-226-4303 or visit www.pwpl.info.
