Blue Water Young Professionals

2013 Port Huron Art Hop

Jackie Hanton — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:13:47 +0000

Join us for the next Art Hop on April 26th from 5-9pm in downtown Port Huron. Our local merchants are turning their store fronts into art galleries for you and your family & friends to enjoy! Each Art Hop stop will feature one or more artists who have created unique pieces for viewing and purchase on this very special night.

At this FREE event, you can begin and end at any of the participating locations, at your leisure. There is no right or wrong time to begin and no right or wrong location to start. Just pick up a brochure at any participating location, open it up to look at the map and plan your extremely fun evening!

Brochures will be available at all Art Hop locations. But you can check out the event brochure here: www.thedrawingboardstudios.com/files/nov_brochure.pdf

ART HOP STOPS

Locations

A Day Away Spa

Pam Hickey- Just for Fun Jewelry

A Little Something

TBD

Acheson Community Resource Center

Blue Water Shutter Bug Club- Photography from various artists

Art For Good

*Win Conger- Matted prints of acrylics

*Lisa Jo Struyk- Acrylic Paintings

Backyard Soaps- *215 Huron Ave (by Fuel)

Janet Prusik- Sweetpea Cottage Pottery

Elite Feet

Cecil Williams- Paintings and Stained Glass

Everything Classic Antiques

Weston Reyfield- Repurposed up-cycling art

Golden Rodent & Exquisite Corpse Coffee House

LeeAnne McInnis- Photography

Great Lakes Marine Outfitters

Mark Brant- Clay sculptors

Kate’s Downtown

Fusion3

VenYou Photo booth

Mosher’s Jewelers

Sarah Allen- Oil, Acrylic Paintings

Nook & Cranny

Jean Capadagli

Polka Dot Pandas

Mary Truchan- Photography

Port Huron Family Chiropractic

Sandy Hoffman- Oil and Watercolor Paintings

Proper Framing

Wayne Seaford- Woodcraft

Paul Shoemaker- Woodcraft

Round Island Sweet Shoppe

North of Now Photography- Amy Tunney

Jeremy Thornton

Salon Pizazz

Cindy Lindow- Photography

Todd Bielby- Photography

SC4

Jason Stier- Painting

Creeker Craft Pottery

Marilyn Biernot-Hess

Spa 223

Deborah Maxwell- Red Mudd Studio – Pottery

Studio 1219

Various

The Raven

Fran Ramales- Armored Hearts- Chainmaille Jewelry & Wearable Art

Twin Shutterbug Studios

Nancy Davies- Oil, Watercolor, Pastel Pantings

Twisted Scissorz

Sue Grewe- Sue Grewe Creations

Jennifer Xerri- Star Lilly Creations

Weekends

Jim Cheek- Photography

Black River Walk Project

kkavanagh — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:10:31 +0000

Whether taking a long stroll or a short walk along a wooden, stone or paved path, river walks are a draw to residents and tourists for everything from picnicking and people watching to bike riding and fishing. “In fact, river walks are so popular in many cities that, budget cuts aside, they are building multi-mile extensions.” In fact, river walks are so popular in many cities that, budget cuts aside, they are building multi-mile extensions.

Over the last year, the Blue Water Young Professionals (BWYP) have been hard at work with community partners creating a vision and long term plan to shape, enhance and breathe new life into the riverfront along the Black River. The Black River Walk project is broadly described as a public spaces plan for “creative placemaking” through the development of a ten block stretch of land along the Black River, redefining this space as a cultural destination. This creative placemaking project will transform a rather barren strip of river walk with public art pieces, gathering places, and in the future visual and performing art experiences.

Our focus is on developing quality-of-life amenities for the Blue Water Area. According to Next Generation Consulting, the next generation has a “Live first, work second” mentality. Unlike their parents, these young professionals do not simply follow the paycheck or the company. Often, they first pick a place to live, and then find a job. Their survey of over 50,000 young professionals found that U.S. cities must develop and emphasize the quality-of-life amenities, i.e. the arts, public parks and trails, a strong after-5 scene, that attract the next generation.

The BWYPs have joined with all facets of the community to liven up and add quality-of-life amenities to our beautiful and fun downtown. Our city is fortunate enough to have extensions and enhancements happening concurrently on two river walk projects in our downtown area.“Our city is fortunate enough to have extensions and enhancements happening concurrently on two river walk projects in our downtown area.” With the St. Clair Community Foundation’s habitat restoration along the St. Clair River on Desmond Landing and the BWYP’s leading efforts for the enhancement and branding of the Black River Walk, we have a lot to look forward to along our waterfronts

Key to the project is our maritime heritage. Vantage Point Maritime Center, the historic Fort Gratiot Lighthouse, the Huron Lightship, the annual Mackinac Sailboat Race, and many other maritime attractions are well known in our area. This maritime heritage will be the anchoring theme of all the visual elements of the Black River Walk project. Main components to the Spring 2013 phase of the project are: useable public art, like the bike racks and benches in contest right now, archways signifying the beginning and end of the river walk, picnic tables painted vibrantly with maritime stories and an additional fire pit.

2013 Chilly Fest Bed Races

Jackie Hanton — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:03:30 +0000

2013 CHILLY FEST BED RACES

RACE DETAILS AND RULES

Race Fees: $25 per team
Race Date: Saturday, January 26th
Entry Deadline: Monday, January 21^st
Race Course: The starting line will be on McMorran Blvd at the intersection of McMorran Blvd and Superior Mall. The finish line will be just before Grand River Ave.

Bed Race REGISTRATION Form 2013

RACE SCHEDULE

2:00 pm — Registration
3:00 pm – Beds on Public Display: Prior to the official “Simply Sweet Dreams” Bed Race, all beds will be on display along the sidewalks of Downtown Port Huron for the general public to see. At this time all beds will be officially reviewed and awarded style points by a panel of Chilly Fest Sleepy Headed Judges.
4:00 pm –“Simply Sweet Dreams” Bed Race State Time: Teams compete headed to head, in entry category. The teams will be timed and best overall time will win that division. The winning team of each race division will be awarded a first place prize following the completion of all races.

RULES

Team: Each team will be made up of 5 people
Bed Clothing: All members of each team will wear some form of PJ’s or theme appropriate costume during the race.
The Sleeper: There must be at least one sleeper on the bed at all times during the race.
Pushing the Bed: All members of the team must be in contact with the bed at all times, except during the exchange of the Sleeper.
The Exchange: During the half-way mark of the race, the sleeper must exchange place with one of the bed pushers.
Dirty Tricks: The use of distraction devices such as megaphones, whistles, silly strong, etc. are approved for use. All such devices must be used in a respectful manner and not to harm of degrade participants and/or the audience. WATER IS NOT PERMITTED.
Who Wins: The judge’s decisions are final. No whining, please. There will be children present, so we want to always set an example of good sportsmanship.
NOTE: Your safety is very important to us. Please wear good running shoes. Accidents may occur such as falling down on pavement, scrapes, bruises, tripping, collisions, etc. Safety gear to avoid such hazards is recommended.

BED CONSTRUCTION

The frame of the race bed does not need be of an original bed, but it must mimic a real bed in appearance by having a headboard and footboard.
Beds are to have minimum of four wheels, so situated to make the bed stable and safe. Wheels of any size may be used. You may have swivels, steering or permanently fixed wheels. Hint: fixed wheels are more than adequate.
The bed cannot have any means of propulsion or breaks other than provided by the runners. Human power only. No motors or animal power will be allowed.
Beds may not be pulled, only pushed from the sides and/or back.
The bed may have push bars, though may not exceed the overall width of the bed.
The mattress and/or box spring must be a manufactured adult sized bed, i.e. twin, double, queen or king. The minimum mattress/box spring dimensions must be no smaller than 35”x71”. This will be strictly enforced. No youth beds, cribs, coffins. Do we really need to say more?
Mattress must be outfitted with at least one blanket and one pillow.
Any violations of the bed construction guide will cost a team a 3 second delay at the start, per violation.

EliteFeet – Will Run for Beer

Jackie Hanton — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:52:39 +0000

Pre Registration ends Soon!

Before Sept. 3rd - $40

Before Sept. 14th - $50

Day of registration will be $65

Click here to register

Volunteer today!

Volunteers are needed from 11am-3:30pm. on race day for various duties including course management, helping with food, and race registration. If you are interested in helping out (then taking part in the post-race party too!) simply send a message to: graham@elitefeetrunning.com