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Today I just want to encourage you to be positive. The more people I speak with lately, seem to be struggling with many issues, some with health, finances, or general frustration. Someone smarter than me coined the phrase “ We can not control the things that happen to us after they have occurred,...
Lynn Eckerle is the author of the weekly food column The Recipe Exchange along with a blog, Lynn’s Musings From a Deep Well. She loves country cooking, small town living and taking the back roads.
Dear Lynn,
I love sticky buns and would love to try making some at home. Does anyone have a favorite...
As I Set In Church
As I set in church this morning, I looked around and saw how our Sunday School classes are dropping off. Our young people don’t come to church like they did. I thought, what is out there that we can offer them? I began to look around; And I said Salvation we can offer them,...
A bird of grasslands in an era when grasslands are disappearing, the Bobolink finds itself in a precarious situation. Having extended its range northward in Michigan when the forests were cleared, this bird now suffers from the return of woodlands, the urbanization of the state, and agricultural...
On February 13, 2020, the Rotary Club of Pinconning & Standish, heard a presentation by Karen Tighe, retired Bay County Probate Court Judge. Karen was raised in the city of Detroit. She graduated from the University of Michigan before attending the Detroit College of Law. She began working in...
The Bible states that God created all things. He separated day from night, land from sea, created man and woman and all animals, all plants and all the stars. He gave us our intelligence, our talents and all blessing come from him. Yet most of us, myself included, forget that we are just stewards...
Lynn Eckerle is the author of the weekly food column The Recipe Exchange along with a blog, Lynn’s Musings From a Deep Well. She loves country cooking, small town living and taking the back roads.
Dear Lynn,
I’m looking for some unique and delicious recipes for biscuits and muffins. Delores from...
During the February 6th social evening of the Rotary Club, President Tom Boetefuer presented Mark Fuhrman, the club’s newest Paul Harris Fellow, a Certificate from Rotary International as well as a Paul Harris Fellow lapel pin. The club gave this award to Mark in acknowledgement of his outstanding...
Lynn Eckerle is the author of the weekly food column The Recipe Exchange along with a blog, Lynn’s Musings From a Deep Well. She loves country cooking, small town living and taking the back roads.
Dear Lynn,
Please see if everyone would share their best Hamburger Casserole recipes. Diane from Cass...
People in the Saginaw Bay region are fortunate to be able to see these uncommon falcons periodically. When not pursuing their prey—small birds and rodents—they may be seen perched on utility poles overlooking surrounding fields. The Merlin in the accompanying field was spotted in January near...








