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Upcoming events

    • Sun, September 01, 2024
    • 12:01 AM
    • Tue, March 25, 2025
    • 11:59 PM
    • Hybrid, Online and in-person (TBD)
    • 1
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    Hybrid EMS Instructor-Coordinator Course

    Initial IC Course Admission Criteria:

    • 3 Years field experience at any level--EMR (MFR), EMT, Specialist (AEMT) or Paramedic (This is required to become licensed as a Michigan EMS IC.)
    • Two Letters of Support from active Michigan ICs (Instructor Coordinators) or your employer in Public Service (to be emailed to dsmith10@ncmich.edu by September 1, 2024)
    Course Format: Hybrid classroom with required weekly student online activity. Real time in-person online attendance requirement as described below:

    Virtual welcome meeting and learning platform overview (recommended, but optional) via “Zoom” on September 4, 2024 at 5 pm. Information on how to join will be provided to course registrants.

    Weekly online course activity (weekly student activity is required)

    • Coursework will include an online orientation to North Central Michigan College’s Learning Management System (Brightspace) and the course syllabus during Week 1. This will give access to future weeks’ information.
    • Weekly content will include learning and lecture material, quiz/exam, discussion and interaction with peers & course instructor(s) and online assignments per course schedule. Optional weekly in-person meetings will occur on Mondays at 5pm via “Zoom.” (Day of the week may be adjusted based on student needs).

    Required "real time” sessions (online is via Zoom or Microsoft Teams)

    • November 1, 2024 - 9:00 am - 3:30 pm (students will do a 7-10 minute practice presentation and evaluate peers)

    • Week of December 1 - Required MDHHS Presentation (date TBD)

    • December 13, 2024 - 9:00 am - 3:30 pm (students will do a 10-15 minute practice presentation and evaluate peers)

    Student Teaching: A minimum of 30 hours of student teaching will be completed by each IC candidate during the period of December 22 - March 25, 2025. Each IC Candidate will be responsible to arrange approved teaching experiences and submit paperwork for each session taught. Teaching experience must include both MDHHS-approved EMS CE programs AND Initial EMS Education programs.

    Course Dates: Starts September 1, 2024  

    Course ends with student teaching experience (no later than March 25, 2025)            

    Cost: $1,510.00 (your non-refundable $50 registration fee goes toward this total)    

    Questions about the program? Contact the instructor, Dena Smith at dsmith10@ncmich.edu

    Note: Your candidacy to take the EMS IC licensing exam to become licensed as a Michigan EMS IC is contingent on the successful completion of the coursework and student teaching in the time periods listed. As with your provider license, a criminal history could negatively affect your ability to obtain an IC license in the State of Michigan.

    • Mon, January 06, 2025
    • Mon, January 27, 2025
    • 3 sessions
    • NCMC's Iron Horse Cafe
    • 7
    Register


    Gentle yoga relieves stress, increases flexibility, calms the mind, and strengthens the body. It's performed at a slower pace, with less extreme positions. This one-day a week, 3-week class is designed with gentle floor-based sequences with some standing positions helping you relax the muscles fully, integrating mind, body, and spirit, bringing ease to the breath, and tuning into the nervous system's healing capacity. Yoga is for every BODY - tall, small, big, tiny, young, old, and gender fluid. It truly is a way to move your body for every person on this planet. The purpose of the class is to create a space for all ages, abilities, and body types to move their bodies in a healthy and safe environment. This practice is open to all levels.


    What to bring:  Yoga mat and water bottle


    ***This month, the Monday session is 3 weeks long***


    Cancellations are non-refundable within 48 hours of the start of this class

    Jennifer Lovely

    Jennifer is a recovering healthcare professional. It wasn't until she had her own health issues that she realized the "care" in Healthcare was missing. After 20 years in the industry, Jennifer decided to take the leap into Wellness Coaching. To her it's been the most rewarding career. Seeing people change their lives and experience freedom from within has been a beautiful thing for Jennifer to witness. She's learned a lot throughout her time caring for people this way, learning one consistent thing is that people want to be seen, heard, and truly cared for. As part of overall wellness, knowing that exercise needs to be a key component and that it takes a lot of work to get started from ground zero. If exercise is already part of your life, you are one step closer to having the puzzle pieces fit together for overall health. Yoga offers nurturing, kindness, and compassion for the body, no matter what stage you are at when beginning the practice. Yoga is for every BODY-tall, small, big, tiny, young, old, and gender fluid. It truly is a way to move your body for every person on this planet. Jennifer wants to create a space for all ages, abilities, and body types to move their bodies in a healthy and safe environment. The wonderful thing about changing careers later in life is that Jennifer CHOOSE to be here and help people find their peace and freedom from within.

    • Tue, January 07, 2025
    • Tue, January 28, 2025
    • 4 sessions
    • NCMC Borra Bldg Student Commons
    • 0
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    Gentle yoga relieves stress, increases flexibility, calms the mind, and strengthens the body. It's performed at a slower pace, with less extreme positions. This one-day a week, 4-week class is designed with gentle floor-based sequences with some standing positions helping you relax the muscles fully, integrating mind, body, and spirit, bringing ease to the breath, and tuning into the nervous system's healing capacity. Yoga is for every BODY - tall, small, big, tiny, young, old, and gender fluid. It truly is a way to move your body for every person on this planet. The purpose of the class is to create a space for all ages, abilities, and body types to move their bodies in a healthy and safe environment. This practice is open to all levels. Please bring yoga mat and water bottle.


    Cancellations are non-refundable within 48 hours of the start of this class

    Jennifer Lovely

    Jennifer is a recovering healthcare professional. It wasn't until she had her own health issues that she realized the "care" in Healthcare was missing. After 20 years in the industry, Jennifer decided to take the leap into Wellness Coaching. To her it's been the most rewarding career. Seeing people change their lives and experience freedom from within has been a beautiful thing for Jennifer to witness. She's learned a lot throughout her time caring for people this way, learning one consistent thing is that people want to be seen, heard, and truly cared for. As part of overall wellness, knowing that exercise needs to be a key component and that it takes a lot of work to get started from ground zero. If exercise is already part of your life, you are one step closer to having the puzzle pieces fit together for overall health. Yoga offers nurturing, kindness, and compassion for the body, no matter what stage you are at when beginning the practice. Yoga is for every BODY-tall, small, big, tiny, young, old, and gender fluid. It truly is a way to move your body for every person on this planet. Jennifer wants to create a space for all ages, abilities, and body types to move their bodies in a healthy and safe environment. The wonderful thing about changing careers later in life is that Jennifer CHOOSE to be here and help people find their peace and freedom from within.

    • Tue, January 07, 2025
    • 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
    • NCMC - HESC Bldg Room 351
    • 6
    Register

                 BLS Full Provider Course

    The AHA’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

    What does the skills testing evaluate?

    • High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
    • The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components
    • Important early use of an AED
    • Effective ventilations using a barrier device
    • Importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
    • Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants.

    Cancellations are non-refundable within 48 hours of this event.


    Daniel Wandrie is an Adjunct Faculty member of North Central Michigan College that has been teaching CPR for over 40 years.

    • Wed, January 08, 2025
    • Wed, February 05, 2025
    • 5 sessions
    • NCMC Library Conference Room
    • 0
    Join waitlist


    Join us weekly for indoor Tai Chi at NCMC.

    Tai chi originated as an ancient martial art in China. Over the years, it has become more focused on health promotion and rehabilitation.  It is a practice that involves a series of slow gentle movements and physical postures, a meditative state of mind, and controlled breathing. 

    Tai Chi and chronic pain:

    Research shows that tai chi can help with chronic pain, including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and tension headaches. Tai chi is a low-impact exercise that can improve muscle strength and joint flexibility.

    Tai Chi and memory:

    Studies have shown tai chi improves memory and brain health. The Internation Institute of Tai Chi Health has merged medical research and traditional Chinese medicine to create this program. Tai Chi for Memory is especially useful for people with memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease and similar conditions. It is also designed to prevent these conditions.

    Caring for people with memory loss is challenging for family: the mind body program engages everyone for a quality time together. It will improve most aspects of health including balance, immunity and relaxation and can be practiced and enjoyed by anyone.

    Tai Chi and Diabetes:

    The Tai Chi for Diabetes program was developed to prevent and improve the control of diabetes. It incorporates medical research and traditional Chinese medicine to make tai chi sager, more effective and accessible.

    The program has helped many people with and without diabetes gain better health, improve balance, immunity, relation and quality of life.

    Refunds are unavailable within 48hrs of this class.


    Gretchen Stelter:  Instructor

    Gretchen Stelter is a certified Tai Chi for Health Instructor. Her certification is through the Tai Chi for Health Institute in Australia and the Dr Paul Lam, (MD) program which began in 2005 ( taichiforhealthinstitute.org ). She has been certified since 2012 and recertified every other year, to teach the classes all over the United States and abroad.

    Gretchen teaches classes to those that might be suffering from arthritis, balance issues, Parkinsons, Muscular Dystrophy and for those that want to increase their strength, coordination and over all well-being (mentally and physically).

    • Thu, January 09, 2025
    • Thu, January 30, 2025
    • 4 sessions
    • Online
    Register

    Planning Your Retirement 

    Steady, committed saving and investing might not be exciting, but it will give you far more ability and power over your way of life in your retirement years.  Join in this 4-week noon-time series to learn the when's, why's and how's of retiring with confidence.

    Week 1 (Jan 9): Retirement Goal Setting

    Retirement, some people dream about it, some people dread it and others wonder if it’s even possible. Most of the time all it takes is a little forethought and planning to make that retirement dream a reality. And the only way you can plan is if you know where you want to go. In this class Austin Willson, will guide you through an exploration of what retirement might mean to you, highlight common pitfalls, and discuss how what gets you to retirement isn’t the same as what gets you through retirement. This is the first in a 4-part series on the subject so snag your spot today!


    Week 2 (Jan 16): Income After the Paychecks Stop

    The most important question about retiring is how do you pay for things once you stop working? That’s exactly what this class will cover. Austin Willson, will provide an overview of how to determine what income you may need, how to create that income stream and most importantly how to not outlast your savings. This is the 2nd in a 4-part series on retirement so snag your spot today!


    Week 3 (Jan 23): Taxes in Retirement, The Other Certainty

    One thing’s for certain, taxes will still play a role in the overall picture of retirement. During this class Austin Willson will discuss three important areas of tax planning for retirement including possible sources of income, the 3 ways investments can be taxed, and some tax strategies you can implement to help ensure you’re well positioned from a tax perspective as you enter retirement. This is the 3rd in a 4-part series on retirement so snag your spot today!

    Week 4 (Jan 30): Planning for a Confident Retirement

    With the markets and economy changing all the time, you may feel less than confident about reaching your retirement goals. In this class Austin Willson will lay out some tips and strategies that can help you plan for a more confident retirement and understand how financial and physical health may be intertwined. It will also cover ways to generate dependable income that could last through your whole retirement. This will be the final class of this 4-part series

    Please note: This presentation series will not be recorded.


    Austin Willson

    Austin Willson is a Financial Advisor at OsborneKlein, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services LLC, with offices in Petoskey and Alpena MI. Austin got his start in the financial services industry over 3 years ago in the Detroit Metro area. After a brief stint as a writer and editorial relations executive with a financial news startup, Austin moved back to his hometown of Petoskey to join the team at OsborneKlein. Currently, Austin focuses on helping clients feel more confident, connected and in control of their financial life through financial planning and investment management.

    • Thu, January 09, 2025
    • 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • NCMC - SCRC Building CCE Room 536
    • 7
    Register

             

    New Heartsaver Total courses from the American Heart Association are designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs first aid and/or CPR training and a course completion card for job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other regulatory or licensing requirements. Heartsaver courses can also be taken by anyone who wants to be prepared to act in an emergency at work or at home.

    Heartsaver courses:

    • Prepare students for the most common types of first aid emergencies
    • Equip them with CPR skills for adults, children, and infants
    • Allows for flexible delivery, all with the most relevant AHA science and information
    Cancellations are non-refundable within 48 hours of this event.


    Megan Mainland is an Adjunct Faculty member of North Central Michigan College and is also their AHA Training Center Coordinator, that has been teaching CPR for over 15 years. She currently monitors other instructors to assure their skills are up to date.

    • Thu, January 09, 2025
    • Thu, January 30, 2025
    • 4 sessions
    • NCMC Borra Bldg Student Commons
    • 1
    Register


    Gentle yoga relieves stress, increases flexibility, calms the mind, and strengthens the body. It's performed at a slower pace, with less extreme positions. This one-day a week, 4-week class is designed with gentle floor-based sequences with some standing positions helping you relax the muscles fully, integrating mind, body, and spirit, bringing ease to the breath, and tuning into the nervous system's healing capacity. Yoga is for every BODY - tall, small, big, tiny, young, old, and gender fluid. It truly is a way to move your body for every person on this planet. The purpose of the class is to create a space for all ages, abilities, and body types to move their bodies in a healthy and safe environment. This practice is open to all levels.


    What to bring:  Yoga mat and water bottle


    Cancellations are non-refundable within 48 hours of the start of this class

    Jennifer Lovely

    Jennifer is a recovering healthcare professional. It wasn't until she had her own health issues that she realized the "care" in Healthcare was missing. After 20 years in the industry, Jennifer decided to take the leap into Wellness Coaching. To her it's been the most rewarding career. Seeing people change their lives and experience freedom from within has been a beautiful thing for Jennifer to witness. She's learned a lot throughout her time caring for people this way, learning one consistent thing is that people want to be seen, heard, and truly cared for. As part of overall wellness, knowing that exercise needs to be a key component and that it takes a lot of work to get started from ground zero. If exercise is already part of your life, you are one step closer to having the puzzle pieces fit together for overall health. Yoga offers nurturing, kindness, and compassion for the body, no matter what stage you are at when beginning the practice. Yoga is for every BODY-tall, small, big, tiny, young, old, and gender fluid. It truly is a way to move your body for every person on this planet. Jennifer wants to create a space for all ages, abilities, and body types to move their bodies in a healthy and safe environment. The wonderful thing about changing careers later in life is that Jennifer CHOOSE to be here and help people find their peace and freedom from within.

    • Mon, January 13, 2025
    • Mon, March 10, 2025
    • 8 sessions
    • NCMC Library Conference Rm
    • 8
    Register

    In partnership with




    Theatre


    Come join the fun in this popular class!!

    Improv is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned.

    This fun improv course is perfect for everyone. It will cover the basics and work up to advanced “long form “improv skills. It is for someone with zero improv experience, or for those wanting to refresh their improv fundamentals, as well as those looking to build previous improv experience.

    By the end of this course, you will have learned the fundamental tools of improv through engaging exercises and group game play designed to bolster your soft skills (agreement, active listening, being supportive, etc.) and lay the foundation that will allow you to create without self-judgment.

    The course provides a safe environment to explore your creative potential and experience the freedom and joy of improvisational play. It is open to students 16 years or older with a limit of 15 students. This class is sponsored by Little Traverse Civic Theater and is taught by Dean Tahtinen.

    What Improv can do for and to you:

    • Activates language and creativity centers in your brain
    • Helps promote brain connectivity
    • Boosts creativity
    • Reduces social anxiety
    • Reduces uncertainty intolerance
    • Boosts confidence
    • Decreases stress

    WARNING! You may:

    • Experience the freedom and joy of improvisational play
    • Bolster your soft skills
    • Improve active listening
    • Create without self-judgment.
    • Discover your creative potential
    • Make new friends

      Scholarships to cover class fees are available. To inquire, please call Cathy Degnan (231) 439-6378



      Dean Tahtinen

      In 2002 Dean was introduced to theatre as a co-leading man in play “The Best Man.” Since then, he has been onstage, backstage, and next to the stage as an actor, stage manager, assistant director, and light and sound technician for 15 or more productions. He began his improv journey with the Second Sunday Improv troop that preformed for 7 years on the second Sunday of the month raising funds for non-profit organizations. As the members of Second Sunday left the area, Dean took a couple of years off before forming the Petoskey Improv Troop or PIT that performed for 2 ½ years. He has lead improv after school classes with elementary schools in Petoskey, Alanson and East Jordan. He has provided the basics of improv: "don’t say no....make everyone look better and listen", to various organizations thru staff in-services. Dean's formal training consists of an intensive workshop at Second City Improv in Chicago, and informal training includes hours of research and visiting improv troops in Chicago, Toronto, Denver, Boston, and Melbourne Australia. Dean has a love for bringing the joy and creativity of improv to adults and children.


      • Wed, January 15, 2025
      • Wed, March 12, 2025
      • 8 sessions
      • NCMC Library Conference Rm
      • 10
      Register

      In partnership with


      Improv is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned.  This fun Level 2 improv course is the perfect course for those with some improv experience or for those wanting to refresh their improv fundamentals. The course will explore “long form” improv, more complex settings and solo improv skill. If you want to take your improv skills to the next level this is the class for you.

      By the end of this course, you will have learned the fundamental tools of long form improv through engaging exercises and group game play designed to bolster your soft skills (agreement, active listening, being supportive, etc.) and lay the foundation that will allow you to create without self-judgment.

      A Level 2 course provides a safe environment to explore your creative potential and experience the freedom and joy of improvisational play. It is open to students 16 years or older.

      Scholarships to cover class fees are availableTo inquire, please call Cathy Degnan (231) 439-6378



      Dean Tahtinen

      In 2002 Dean was introduced to theatre as a co-leading man in play “The Best Man.” Since then, he has been onstage, backstage, and next to the stage as an actor, stage manager, assistant director, and light and sound technician for 15 or more productions. He began his improv journey with the Second Sunday Improv troop that preformed for 7 years on the second Sunday of the month raising funds for non-profit organizations. As the members of Second Sunday left the area, Dean took a couple of years off before forming the Petoskey Improv Troop or PIT that performed for 2 ½ years. He has lead improv after school classes with elementary schools in Petoskey, Alanson and East Jordan. He has provided the basics of improv: "don’t say no....make everyone look better and listen", to various organizations thru staff in-services.  Dean's formal training consists of an intensive workshop at Second City Improv in Chicago, and informal training includes hours of research and visiting improv troops in Chicago, Toronto, Denver, Boston, and Melbourne Australia. Dean has a love for bringing the joy and creativity of improv to adults and children.

      • Fri, January 17, 2025
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • NCMC - HESC Bldg Room 351
      • 8
      Register

                   BLS Full Provider Course

      The AHA’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

      What does the skills testing evaluate?

      • High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
      • The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components
      • Important early use of an AED
      • Effective ventilations using a barrier device
      • Importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
      • Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants.

      Cancellations are non-refundable within 48 hours of this event.


      Daniel Wandrie is an Adjunct Faculty member of North Central Michigan College that has been teaching CPR for over 40 years.

      • Sat, January 18, 2025
      • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      • NCMC - Athletic Bldg Rm #536
      • 0
      Join waitlist


      Let’s get real—this isn’t another "eat less, move more" crash course. If you’ve tried everything to lose weight and still feel stuck, this is for you. It’s time to stop treating food like the enemy and start asking yourself the bigger question: What are you truly hungry for in life?


      In this workshop, we’ll dive into what’s missing—not in your pantry, but in your life. Together, we’ll uncover what’s been holding you back, so you can start caring for yourself in ways that actually feel good (no calorie counting required). Because let’s face it—burnout, frustration, and shame aren’t on anyone’s meal plan.

      What You’ll Get Out of This:

      Self-Acceptance: Let go of the shame from “failing” at diets and discover how to embrace where you are today.

      Clarity: Identify what you’ve been craving—beyond food—and learn how to nourish your life in meaningful ways.

      Relief: Finally stop the cycle of dieting and guilt by shifting your focus to what your body and soul actually need.

      Empowerment: Feel more confident, balanced, and aligned with who you are and what you truly want.

      Why This Works:

      Because it’s not about the food. It’s about filling the spaces in your life where joy, connection, and self-care belong. You’ll stop trying to “fix” yourself and start listening to yourself.

      This is for you if you’ve done all the diets, tried all the workouts, and still feel like something’s missing. Let’s figure out what that something is and finally take care of YOU in a way that fuels your body, mind, and heart.

      ***Cancellations are non-refundable within 48 hours of this event***


      Jennifer Lovely

      Certified Mastery Transformational Coach and Yoga instructor

      Jennifer brings a wealth of knowledge and empathy to guide through transformative processes.  She has been consulting with and advising clients on lifestyle changes and goal-focused initiatives for years and have conducted over 2,700 coaching calls. As a coach, Jennifer specializes in helping you prioritize your well-being, and uncover the steps needed to transition gracefully into the next chapter of your life. 


      • Wed, January 22, 2025
      • Wed, March 05, 2025
      • 6 sessions
      • NCMC Borra Bldg RM 49A
      • 15
      Register


      Creative writing is an art form that allows us to express our thoughts, emotions, and ideas through the power of words. This is also a form with deep Michigan roots. Meant to evoke emotion in a reader by communicating an idea, an image, or a theme, there is a rich history in our own backyard.


      In this six-week course, we will mine this rich history for ideas, as well as utilize a scaffolded approach to move our ideas into finished pieces of writing– a story--or a poem--or a work of creative nonfiction. We will use recognizable Michigan writers as models for our work, while also investigating the processes laid out in Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. We will discuss how narrative works, what gives shape to poetry, how to find new topics for creative nonfiction, likely discovering new writing forms along our way. We will regularly return to our own work.

      This class is open to all writers at any stage of readiness, beginners and beyond. Whether you prefer to write longhand on legal pads or type on a device, momentum will be built on process and practice. Class will include writing time, guided by prompts from both Michigan writers and The Artist’s Way. Each class period will invite student demonstrations as workshop opportunities. Additional out of class writing is encouraged.

      Come to class with early drafts, or create something new based on class ideas. Either way, your writing practices will expand.

      Students should have a copy of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way for reference as well as inspiration. McLean and Eakin bookstore in Petoskey has the book in stock. We will regularly share other text examples as well.

      **Refunds are unavailable for cancellations made within 48 hours of the class**


      Glen Young is the author, most recently, of "Four Seasons of Mackinac Island," in addition to more than 500 essays on books and reading. He is Associate Editor of Walloon Writers Review, as well as a co-director of Top of the Mitt Writing Project. His poetry and essays have appeared in regional and national publications. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Marygrove College. He is a National Writing Project fellow, and has earned grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the IREX/Fulbright International Teacher Exchange Program. He is a ski instructor and a kayak guide, and divides his time between Petoskey and Mackinac Island.

      • Wed, January 22, 2025
      • Wed, April 02, 2025
      • 6 sessions
      • Borra Learning Center Bldg Room 18A
      • 0
      Join waitlist


      In Japanese, the symbol for Raku 楽 translates to fun, delightful or pleasure. A seal engraved with this word/symbol was marked on the early Raku pieces. It was the title and seal used by 15 generations of potters.


      Raku is often considered as a singular process when, in fact, it encompasses a number of various techniques. The common denominator is that a bisque fired clay work is fired in a gas kiln and then removed with tongs from the kiln while glowing hot.


      In this six- session hands-on class (held every two weeks) we will explore variations of Raku including ferric chloride spray, alcohol reduction, naked Raku, and Obvara submersion reduction in addition to the use traditional Raku glazes. Limited extra studio time will also be available.


      Each attendee will be required to bring their own bisque fired pieces to experiment with during the course of the class.  Also required will be attendees own personal safety equipment (safety glasses and N95 mask).  Provided for the class will be all glazes and firing supplies.


      If you have questions please contact instructor Mike Banyai at (231) 330-0910 or email mikebanyai@gmail.com.


      ***Refunds are unavailable for cancellations made within 48 hours of the class***


      Michael Banyai has been involved with various aspects of ceramics for more than 20 years. Recently he agreed to help a small group do a one day Raku event. This moved from his house to the college where there are terriffic resources for all aspects of ceramics. The current class is a realization there are so many aspects of the concepts of Raku that one day would hardly scratch the surface of the idea of Raku. Making pots and artistic ceramics is a drawn out process which starts with the soft clay creation being first dried and bisque fired to harden the object after which various glazes or surface treatments are applied and then a refire in one of many different kiln enviroments. Raku kilns in general are lower temp fast fired usually. The plan is that folks will bring to the classes bisque fired work and that the glaze and fired results will be a shared experiance for all the class to observe and learn. Every effort to help the potters create bisque fired ware will be done including studio use during non class time. 


      • Fri, January 24, 2025
      • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
      • NCMC Library Conference Center
      • 74
      Register

      Scott LaDeur, Ph.D., professor of political science at North Central Michigan College, will analyze the results of the November 5 general election.  Professor LaDeur will take a deep dive into the numbers locally and statewide to explain how it all happened.

      Cancellations are non-refundable within 48 hours of this event.


      Scott LaDeur, Ph.D.

      • Mon, February 03, 2025
      • Fri, February 28, 2025
      • 20 sessions
      • Charlevoix County Sheriff's Office, 1000 Grant St., Charlevoix, MI 49720
      • 23
      Register

      Please note the location for classes has changed to the  Charlevoix County Sheriff's Office, 1000 Grant St., Charlevoix, MI 49720

      Officers are in high demand.

      It's a great time to begin a new career!


      Classes begin Monday, Feb. 3rd, 2025
      Registration deadline Thursday, Jan. 30th, 2025

      The Michigan Sheriffs’ Coordinating and Training Council (MSCTC) approved one hundred sixty hour (160) Local Corrections Officer Academy for correctional personnel supervising inmates in county jails. The Academy is required within one year of hire or for new hires into Sheriffs Office Correctional facilities as a Local Corrections Officer. The Academy is being offered by North Central Michigan College, an approved educational partner. The Academies are conducted by instructors who are certified by the MSCTC.

      Topics covered:

      Booking and Intake
      Correctional Law
      Cultural Diversity
      Custody and Security
      Defensive Tactics
      Ethics
      Fire Safety
      First Aid/CPR/AED
      Interpersonal Communications
      Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
      Prisoner Mental Health, Suicide and Behavior Awareness
      Professionalism
      Report Writing
      Stress Management
      (Comprehensive) Final Examination

      Special note: Students will need to bring a laptop to the class. If one is not available, please contact Donna Cannon at dcannon1@ncmich.edu to secure one for the student to use.

      Where: Charlevoix County Sheriff's Office, 1000 Grant St., Charlevoix, MI 49720

      Graduation: February 28, 2025 (same location as classes)
      Academy Tuition:
      $ 1,500.00*
      *This program is eligible for Michigan Works! funding and does not require completion of FAFSA. Reach out to your local agency for assistance. If you have any questions or concerns, please email Rob at rscholey@ncmich.edu

      Questions? Contact:

      ​​Robert Scholey
      Corrections Academy Director, Adjunct Criminal Justice Professor
      North Central Michigan College
      1515 Howard St.
      Petoskey, MI 49770
      Phone: 888-298-6605
      rscholey@ncmich.edu

      • Wed, February 05, 2025
      • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
      • Online via Zoom
      Register



      The Adella Shores


      The two recent shipwreck discoveries of the Adella Shores and the Muir in the Great Lakes reminds of the importance of Great Lakes salt production to the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Piping up from a 400 million year old ocean deep beneath the Earth, salt manufacturers found high quality minerals in New York and Michigan. Over 70 ships were lost carrying salt to markets like Chicago and Superior, Wisconsin. Ric explores how the salt was discovered and dives several wrecks including the Muir Adella Shores, Herman Hettler and Miztec and gives insight into how fortunes were made and lost.


      Workers packing salt in St. Claire, Michigan



      Ric Mixter Bio 

      With dozens of appearances in two countries and three states last year, Ric Mixter is certainly one of the busiest maritime speakers, rumored to be the most requested historian on the Great Lakes.  Visiting museums, libraries, schools and his live music concert “STORM”, thousands of audience members get a new appreciation for our unique inland-sea history through his spellbinding lectures. 

      Millions of television viewers recognize Ric Mixter as a shipwreck researcher, diving over 100 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, including the Edmund Fitzgerald. He has produced over 30 programs for PBS and the Outdoor Channel, and appeared as a shipwreck expert on the History and Discovery Channels.   He leads the pack when it comes to sharing our unique underwater resources with the general public, and thousands of dive show patrons and countless school kids know him as the energetic story teller who uses video like no other presenter can.  His stories appear in books, magazines and in radio and TV news programs.  Mixter’s YouTube videos have over a million views, covering shipwrecks in four of the Great Lakes and adventures in several foreign lands.

      Ric served as SCUBA cameraman on underwater expeditions to the Great Lakes largest shipwrecks, the Edmund Fitzgerald and Carl D. Bradley.  He has interviewed dozens of shipwreck survivors over the past 15 years, including two from the 1913 Storm, two from the 1940 Armistice Day Storm and survivors from the largest shipwrecks in lakes Michigan, Huron and Erie.  Today he runs his own production company, Airworthy Productions.   He’s been Emmy nominated and has taken several awards including the Addy, Aurora, Michigan Association of Broadcasters Best Use of Medium, AP, UPI and was the 2007 Vescio award winner for a video on mental health advocacy.  With over 20 years of stories on historical preservation, Ric was awarded the 2009 Award for Historic Interpretation by the Association for Great Lakes Maritime Historians.  In 2011 he was elected to their board of directors.  Ric is also on the board of directors for the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association, elected to serve as their president starting in January of 2016.  Ric has hosted the largest dive show in Ontario and also MC’d the midwest’s largest show in Chicago.  He is a frequent speaker at Ghost Ships in Milwaukee and Michigan’s largest show “Great Lakes Shipwrecks”.

      Ric is also a pilot- flying not only single engine planes, but also has flight time in several military jets.  These include the US Air Force’s Thunderbird F-16 Falcon, and over 100 hours of camera work in the B-52 Stratofortress.  He’s flown in the Goodyear Blimp and countless biplanes and aerobatic aircraft and has also jumped several times from over 12,000 feet as a skydiver.  Ric also adept to filming in helicopters, from flying over the jungles of Honduras with the Army, to being lowered in a rescue basket into Lake Huron by the Coast Guard. 

      Historical Documentaries:

      Sunken Treasure  2012

      Offshore Outposts 2011

      Cement Boat  2009

      Bombs Away  2008

      Cutter Rescues  2006

      Final Run: Storms of the Century  2005

      Safe Ashore: The 1940 Armistice Day Storm  2004

      Great Lakes In Depth  (26 episodes on PBS and the Outdoor Channel) 2000-2001

      Deep Six: Titanics of the Great Lakes  1998

      The Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations  1997

      Expedition ’94 to the Edmund Fitzgerald  1995

      Best Adventure Yet 1993

      Books & Periodicals

      “The Wheelsmen” 300 page book reprinted 2015

      “Nordmeer” Michigan History Magazine 2015

      “McDougal’s Dream” Michigan History Magazine 2013

      “Bombs Away” Winter 2011

      “Shipwrecks of Saginaw Bay” Michigan History Magazine July 2014

      “Voices of the Lakes” article in book 1993


      • Fri, February 07, 2025
      • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
      • NCMC Library Conference Center
      • 100
      Register

      For something completely different in the middle of winter, Tom Riccobono, instructor of low brass at the Interlochen Arts Academy, will teach us how to make beautiful music by just waving our arms.  He will bring a baton and give us a brief tutorial in conducting to help us understand how Leonard Bernstein, Toscanini, George Szell and other great conductors turned a written score into classic performances of the world’s greatest music. Tom is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and holds a master’s degree from Penn State University.  As a performer, he has appeared with the Savannah Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra in Salzau, Germany, and Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Italy.

      Cancellations are non-refundable within 48 hours of this event.


      Tom Riccobono

      • Wed, February 12, 2025
      • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
      • Online Zoom presentation
      Register



      One of the oldest traditions in Petoskey is the Winter Carnival.  In the 1930s, many towns held winter carnivals, but the Michigan Winter Carnival was only held in Petoskey.


      The week-long mid-winter celebration featured pagentry, fashion shows, snow sports and competitions, skating shows and and mammoth ice thrones built by sculptor Stanley Kellogg.  The Petoskey Winter Carnival Grand Ball was hosted by the governor of Michigan.


      Join Little Traverse Historical Museum Executive Director, Jane Garver, as she travels in time through a wealth of entertaining photographs of Petoskey's Winter Carnivals of the past. 

      • Sat, February 15, 2025
      • 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
      • Online
      • 25
      Register

      How To Play Piano by Ear

      Learn one of music’s deepest mysteries: how to play songs without relying on music. A very practical presentation of music theory that includes predicting chord progressions, learning from recordings, and transposing-all expressed in everyday language. This is an ideal follow-up to the “Instant Piano” class and is open to anyone who has a basic understanding of chords on any instrument. Expand your musical horizons, and free yourself from sheet-music dependence, and be the life of the party! Prior experience with chords recommended. Fee includes the online book, online follow-up lessons, a recording of the class and an optional monthly question and answer session.


      Class is held online using zoom.


      Topics include:​

      • How to find the starting note​​​​
      • How to determine when chords change
      • How to predict the chord progression​​
      • How chords help you find the correct melody
      • How the melody helps you find the correct chords​
      • How to learn songs from recordings
      • How to transpose​​​​​
      • The Universal Key Signature
      • How to use the Circle of Fifths​​​
      • How to recognize the most common chord patterns


      Craig Coffman
      Craig is an experienced piano and guitar instructor, professional pianist and music director. He has over 30 years experience teaching piano privately. His piano and guitar seminars, offered through Community Colleges and Community Education Programs, have been attended by over 30,000 students throughout Arizona, Minnesota and the United States over the last 27 years. He has a degree in Sociology from Illinois Wesleyan University in Illinois (where he also studied piano) and a Master of Divinity degree from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.

      • Mon, February 17, 2025
      • 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
      • Online
      • 25
      Register

      Instant Piano

      In just a few hours, you can learn enough secrets of the trade to give you years of musical enjoyment. Learn to play piano the way professionals do-using chords. The chord method is LOTS of fun and dramatically easier to learn than reading notes. Fee includes the online book, online follow up lessons, a recording of the class and also an optional periodic question and answer session. Class is held online using zoom and is partly hands on instruction and partly lecture demonstration.


      Craig Coffman
      Craig is an experienced piano and guitar instructor, professional pianist and music director. He has over 30 years experience teaching piano privately. His piano and guitar seminars, offered through Community Colleges and Community Education Programs, have been attended by over 30,000 students throughout Arizona, Minnesota and the United States over the last 27 years. He has a degree in Sociology from Illinois Wesleyan University in Illinois (where he also studied piano) and a Master of Divinity degree from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.

      • Tue, February 18, 2025
      • 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
      • Online
      • 25
      Register

      In just a few hours you can learn enough about playing the guitar to give you years of musical enjoyment, and you won’t have to take private lessons to do it. This crash course will teach you some basic chords and get you playing along with your favorite songs right away. Fee includes the online book, online follow up lessons, a recording of the class and also an optional periodic question and answer session. Class is held online using zoom and is partly hands on instruction and partly lecture/demonstration. For ages 13+



      Craig Coffman

      Craig is an experienced piano and guitar instructor, professional pianist and music director. He has over 30 years experience teaching piano privately. His piano and guitar seminars, offered through Community Colleges and Community Education Programs, have been attended by over 30,000 students throughout Arizona, Minnesota and the United States over the last 27 years. He has a degree in Sociology from Illinois Wesleyan University in Illinois (where he also studied piano) and a Master of Divinity degree from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.

      • Fri, February 21, 2025
      • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
      • NCMC Library Conference Center
      • 100
      Register

      The extraordinary robotics program at the Public Schools of Petoskey seeks to inspire elementary, middle and high school students in science, technology, engineering and leadership. The Petoskey Paladins are the high school competition component of the program. The Petoskey high school and middle school coaches will be joined by participating students to explain the many ways the program teaches not only technical skills, but also creativity, communication, leadership, budgeting, project planning, and teamwork.

      Cancellations are non-refundable within 48 hours of this event.


      Petoskey Paladins

      • Wed, February 26, 2025
      • Wed, March 26, 2025
      • 5 sessions
      • NCMC Library Conference Room
      • 20
      Register


      Join us weekly for indoor Tai Chi at NCMC.

      Tai chi originated as an ancient martial art in China. Over the years, it has become more focused on health promotion and rehabilitation.  It is a practice that involves a series of slow gentle movements and physical postures, a meditative state of mind, and controlled breathing. 

      Tai Chi and chronic pain:

      Research shows that tai chi can help with chronic pain, including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and tension headaches. Tai chi is a low-impact exercise that can improve muscle strength and joint flexibility.

      Tai Chi and memory:

      Studies have shown tai chi improves memory and brain health. The Internation Institute of Tai Chi Health has merged medical research and traditional Chinese medicine to create this program. Tai Chi for Memory is especially useful for people with memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease and similar conditions. It is also designed to prevent these conditions.

      Caring for people with memory loss is challenging for family: the mind body program engages everyone for a quality time together. It will improve most aspects of health including balance, immunity and relaxation and can be practiced and enjoyed by anyone.

      Tai Chi and Diabetes:

      The Tai Chi for Diabetes program was developed to prevent and improve the control of diabetes. It incorporates medical research and traditional Chinese medicine to make tai chi sager, more effective and accessible.

      The program has helped many people with and without diabetes gain better health, improve balance, immunity, relation and quality of life.

      Refunds are unavailable within 48hrs of this class.


      Gretchen Stelter:  Instructor

      Gretchen Stelter is a certified Tai Chi for Health Instructor. Her certification is through the Tai Chi for Health Institute in Australia and the Dr Paul Lam, (MD) program which began in 2005 ( taichiforhealthinstitute.org ). She has been certified since 2012 and recertified every other year, to teach the classes all over the United States and abroad.

      Gretchen teaches classes to those that might be suffering from arthritis, balance issues, Parkinsons, Muscular Dystrophy and for those that want to increase their strength, coordination and over all well-being (mentally and physically).

      • Mon, March 03, 2025
      • Mon, April 07, 2025
      • 6 sessions
      • NCMC Borra Learning Bldg Room#122
      • 16
      Register

      Page to Stage: Shakespeare’s Royalty, Lovers and Fools


      Shakespeare’s plays were written to be performed.  In this six-week class we will act up and act out in Shakespeare’s language. Open to all experience levels and abilities.  You need not be a Shakespearean scholar or a Tony award winning actor to join us!

      Students will discover tricks and techniques to open and deepen their understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare’s humorous, dastardly and poignant characters and their stories.

      Themes such as power, revenge, love, jealousy, ambition and betrayal will be addressed in our look at select scenes from both tragedies and comedies.

      This class is for age levels 18 years and up

      Refunds are unavailable for cancellations made within 48 hours of the class


      Karen Nemecek is a retired public school teacher who has taught a range of French and English language arts classes to students from ages 5 to 75. High school curricula included the study of Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of Shrew, Richard III, and Hamlet. She also created Drama and Shakespeare classes where students focused on performance of the text. An amateur thespian and lifetime member of Little Traverse Civic Theatre, she has appeared in a number of roles onstage (from a Lizard in Seascape to a dancing Grandmama in Gigi), worked backstage and front-of-house crews, co-directed Much Ado About Nothing, and directed The Lion in Winter.


      • Fri, March 14, 2025
      • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
      • NCMC Library Conference Center
      • 100
      Register

      Serena Lake of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians will give an overview of the Tribe’s Great Lakes Fisheries Program to preserve and wisely use the native fish populations of northern Lakes Michigan and Huron. The program focuses primarily on Little Traverse Bay and Sturgeon Bay, as well as some Lake Huron tributaries. Work includes studying early life-history traits of lake whitefish, collecting and rearing whitefish and lake sturgeon gametes at the tribe’s own hatcheries for stocking out, and conducting walleye and lake trout status surveys.

      Cancellations are non-refundable within 48 hours of this event.


      Serena Lake

      • Wed, April 02, 2025
      • Wed, April 30, 2025
      • 5 sessions
      • NCMC Library Conference Room (Apr. 30 class location TBD)
      • 20
      Register


      Join us weekly for indoor Tai Chi at NCMC.

      Tai chi originated as an ancient martial art in China. Over the years, it has become more focused on health promotion and rehabilitation.  It is a practice that involves a series of slow gentle movements and physical postures, a meditative state of mind, and controlled breathing. 

      Tai Chi and chronic pain:

      Research shows that tai chi can help with chronic pain, including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and tension headaches. Tai chi is a low-impact exercise that can improve muscle strength and joint flexibility.

      Tai Chi and memory:

      Studies have shown tai chi improves memory and brain health. The Internation Institute of Tai Chi Health has merged medical research and traditional Chinese medicine to create this program. Tai Chi for Memory is especially useful for people with memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease and similar conditions. It is also designed to prevent these conditions.

      Caring for people with memory loss is challenging for family: the mind body program engages everyone for a quality time together. It will improve most aspects of health including balance, immunity and relaxation and can be practiced and enjoyed by anyone.

      Tai Chi and Diabetes:

      The Tai Chi for Diabetes program was developed to prevent and improve the control of diabetes. It incorporates medical research and traditional Chinese medicine to make tai chi sager, more effective and accessible.

      The program has helped many people with and without diabetes gain better health, improve balance, immunity, relation and quality of life.

      Refunds are unavailable within 48hrs of this class.


      Gretchen Stelter:  Instructor

      Gretchen Stelter is a certified Tai Chi for Health Instructor. Her certification is through the Tai Chi for Health Institute in Australia and the Dr Paul Lam, (MD) program which began in 2005 ( taichiforhealthinstitute.org ). She has been certified since 2012 and recertified every other year, to teach the classes all over the United States and abroad.

      Gretchen teaches classes to those that might be suffering from arthritis, balance issues, Parkinsons, Muscular Dystrophy and for those that want to increase their strength, coordination and over all well-being (mentally and physically).

      • Mon, April 21, 2025
      • 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
      • Online
      • 25
      Register

      Instant Piano

      In just a few hours, you can learn enough secrets of the trade to give you years of musical enjoyment. Learn to play piano the way professionals do-using chords. The chord method is LOTS of fun and dramatically easier to learn than reading notes. Fee includes the online book, online follow up lessons, a recording of the class and also an optional periodic question and answer session. Class is held online using zoom and is partly hands on instruction and partly lecture demonstration.


      Craig Coffman
      Craig Coffman is an experienced piano and guitar instructor, professional pianist and music director.  He has over 30 years’ experience teaching piano privately. His piano and guitar seminars, offered through Community Colleges and Community Education Programs, have been attended by over 30,000 students throughout Arizona, Minnesota and the United States over the last 27 years.   He has a degree in Sociology from Illinois Wesleyan University in Illinois (where he also studied piano) and a Master of Divinity degree from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.   

      • Tue, April 22, 2025
      • 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
      • Online
      • 25
      Register

      In just a few hours you can learn enough about playing the guitar to give you years of musical enjoyment, and you won’t have to take private lessons to do it. This crash course will teach you some basic chords and get you playing along with your favorite songs right away. Fee includes the online book, online follow up lessons, a recording of the class and also an optional periodic question and answer session. Class is held online using zoom and is partly hands on instruction and partly lecture/demonstration. For ages 13+



      Craig Coffman

      Craig Coffman is an experienced piano and guitar instructor, professional pianist and music director.  He has over 30 years’ experience teaching piano privately. His piano and guitar seminars, offered through Community Colleges and Community Education Programs, have been attended by over 30,000 students throughout Arizona, Minnesota and the United States over the last 27 years.   He has a degree in Sociology from Illinois Wesleyan University in Illinois (where he also studied piano) and a Master of Divinity degree from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.   

      • Fri, May 02, 2025
      • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
      • NCMC Library Conference Center
      • 100
      Register

      America’s war in Vietnam officially ended in April of 1975 at a cost of 58,000 American lives and as many as three million Vietnamese dead. Vietnam is a vastly different nation today. Charlie MacInnis, who spent 14 months with the U.S. Army’s 25th Division in Cu Chi, South Vietnam, in 1969 and 1970 will compare images he collected then with his new images and impressions from a dramatically changed country today. Military veterans of the Vietnam war will be admitted free to this program.

      Cancellations are non-refundable within 48 hours of this event.


      Charlie MacInnis in Vietnam

      • Sat, May 10, 2025
      • 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
      • Online
      • 25
      Register

      How To Play Piano by Ear

      Learn one of music’s deepest mysteries: how to play songs without relying on music. A very practical presentation of music theory that includes predicting chord progressions, learning from recordings, and transposing-all expressed in everyday language. This is an ideal follow-up to the “Instant Piano” class and is open to anyone who has a basic understanding of chords on any instrument. Expand your musical horizons, and free yourself from sheet-music dependence, and be the life of the party! Prior experience with chords recommended. Fee includes the online book, online follow-up lessons, a recording of the class and an optional monthly question and answer session.


      Class is held online using zoom.


      Topics include:​

      • How to find the starting note​​​​
      • How to determine when chords change
      • How to predict the chord progression​​
      • How chords help you find the correct melody
      • How the melody helps you find the correct chords​
      • How to learn songs from recordings
      • How to transpose​​​​​
      • The Universal Key Signature
      • How to use the Circle of Fifths​​​
      • How to recognize the most common chord patterns


      Craig Coffman
      Craig is an experienced piano and guitar instructor, professional pianist and music director. He has over 30 years experience teaching piano privately. His piano and guitar seminars, offered through Community Colleges and Community Education Programs, have been attended by over 30,000 students throughout Arizona, Minnesota and the United States over the last 27 years. He has a degree in Sociology from Illinois Wesleyan University in Illinois (where he also studied piano) and a Master of Divinity degree from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.

    Past events

    Wed, December 18, 2024 The Christmas Tree Ships with Ric Mixter
    Mon, December 16, 2024 Seeing With New Eyes: How Telescopes View the Universe
    Fri, December 13, 2024 Luncheon Lecture - Life on a Lonely Shore
    Thu, December 12, 2024 NMSMC Strategies to Prevent Falls
    Tue, December 10, 2024 Tarot Spreads Workshop
    Thu, December 05, 2024 Gentle Yoga on Thursday Evenings
    Wed, December 04, 2024 A Christmas Story: Free Community Screening
    Tue, December 03, 2024 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Dispelling Myths & Creating Paths to Recovery
    Tue, December 03, 2024 Gentle Yoga on Tuesday Evenings
    Mon, November 25, 2024 Herbs 101
    Sat, November 23, 2024 How To Play Piano by Ear
    Sat, November 23, 2024 Your Winter Garden
    Fri, November 22, 2024 Luncheon Lecture - Our Elected Leaders
    Wed, November 20, 2024 Charlevoix's Allie Moore: World Roller Skating Champion & Local Boat Builder
    Tue, November 19, 2024 International Lecture - Hezbollah: Resistance, Politics, or Proxy?
    Wed, November 13, 2024 Indoor Tai Chi in the Morning
    Sat, November 09, 2024 On Location Tour of Club Manitou and Ponytail Club
    Fri, November 08, 2024 Luncheon Lecture - Mental Health in a Changing World
    Thu, November 07, 2024 Hooch, Gambling and Rock-n-Roll: The Story of Club Manitou and The Ponytail Club
    Thu, November 07, 2024 French Conversation and Culture II
    Thu, November 07, 2024 Gentle Yoga on Thursday Evenings
    Wed, November 06, 2024 Creative Writing
    Tue, November 05, 2024 Gentle Yoga on Tuesday Evenings
    Tue, November 05, 2024 Tarot 101: An Interactive Introduction
    Mon, November 04, 2024 Herbs 101
    Mon, November 04, 2024 Gentle Yoga on Monday Mornings
    Wed, October 30, 2024 Fall Foraging for Wild Herbs
    Mon, October 28, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Mon, October 28, 2024 International Lecture: A Short History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
    Fri, October 25, 2024 Luncheon Lecture - Removing Plastic Pollution
    Wed, October 23, 2024 Michigan’s Haunted Lighthouses with Dianna Stampfler
    Fri, October 18, 2024 Finance Friday: How to Navigate Volatile Markets
    Wed, October 16, 2024 Favorite Stories from Petoskey History
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    Sun, October 13, 2024 Silk Scarf Marbling
    Sat, October 12, 2024 Nationally Certified Wilderness First Aid (SOLO) Course
    Fri, October 11, 2024 Luncheon Lecture - Hope on Horseback
    Wed, October 09, 2024 Demystifying Dyslexia
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    Wed, October 09, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Tue, October 08, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Sat, October 05, 2024 Introduction to Turkish Marbling on Paper and Fabric
    Sat, October 05, 2024 Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People
    Fri, October 04, 2024 CATEE Bruncheon and Hard Hat Tours
    Thu, October 03, 2024 Non-Profit and Association Management 101
    Mon, September 30, 2024 NMSMC Current Considerations in Hip and Knee Replacement
    Fri, September 27, 2024 Luncheon Lecture - Helping Hands at Bay Bluffs
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    Thu, September 26, 2024 Storytelling: A Tarot Workshop
    Sat, September 21, 2024 Overwintering Honey Bees with Jim Anglewicz
    Thu, September 19, 2024 Fluent Guitar with Owen James
    Thu, September 19, 2024 Storytelling: A Tarot Workshop
    Thu, September 19, 2024 Making Michigan Technology Showcase for NCMC Students
    Wed, September 18, 2024 Turning Memories into Memoirs
    Mon, September 16, 2024 Conversational Guitar with Owen James
    Mon, September 16, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Full Provider Course
    Sat, September 14, 2024 Fall Gardening: It's Not All About Spring & Summer!
    Fri, September 13, 2024 Petoskey After Dark
    Tue, September 10, 2024 Lost at Sea! A Walking Tour of Greenwood Cemetery
    Mon, September 09, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Thu, September 05, 2024 Lost at Sea! A Walking Tour of Greenwood Cemetery
    Wed, September 04, 2024 Earl A. Young Homes Walking Tour
    Tue, September 03, 2024 Lost at Sea! A Walking Tour of Greenwood Cemetery
    Thu, August 29, 2024 Lost at Sea! A Walking Tour of Greenwood Cemetery
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    Wed, August 21, 2024 NCMC Harris Garden Tour
    Wed, August 21, 2024 BLS Instructor Course (in-person portion)
    Thu, August 15, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Full Provider Course
    Wed, August 14, 2024 Recovery Coach Seminar
    Tue, August 13, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Mon, August 12, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Full Provider Course
    Sat, August 10, 2024 Jumpin' Grasshoppers! with Brad Von Blon
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    Thu, July 25, 2024 Luncheon Lecture - Cleared for Takeoff
    Thu, July 25, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Wed, July 24, 2024 “Scrap Fish” in Fused Glass
    Wed, July 24, 2024 Eastbound Lighthouse Cruise
    Wed, July 24, 2024 NCMC Harris Garden Tour
    Tue, July 23, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Tue, July 23, 2024 Family & Friends CPR with Megan Mainland
    Tue, July 23, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Full Provider Course
    Mon, July 22, 2024 Westbound Lighthouse Cruise
    Sat, July 20, 2024 Tree Identification Walk at Hailand/Helstrom Family Nature Preserve
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    Thu, June 13, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Full Provider Course
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    Tue, June 11, 2024 Two Fused Glass Flower Pendants
    Tue, June 11, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Mon, June 10, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Full Provider Course
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    Tue, June 04, 2024 Bay View History Walking Tour
    Thu, May 30, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Tue, May 28, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Sat, May 18, 2024 Wildflower Walk in the Offield Reserve with Brad Von Blon
    Sat, May 18, 2024 Celebrating Little Traverse Historical Museum
    Sat, May 18, 2024 Sustainable Beekeeping with Jim Anglewicz
    Thu, May 16, 2024 Luncheon Lecture - All about Birds
    Wed, May 15, 2024 Celebrating Harbor Springs Historical Museum
    Fri, May 10, 2024 Reading American Photographs
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    Thu, April 04, 2024 Farming With Climate Change
    Wed, April 03, 2024 Native Voices of the Great Lakes
    Wed, March 27, 2024 League of Women Voters and it's History in Northern Michigan and Nationally
    Tue, March 26, 2024 Solo Travel: Embrace the Adventure of Traveling Alone
    Fri, March 22, 2024 Luncheon Lecture - Thank You For Your Service
    Wed, March 20, 2024 Ladies of the Lights with Dianna Stampfler
    Mon, March 18, 2024 International Lecture: India; A Culturally Rich and Diverse Country
    Thu, March 14, 2024 Reading for Yourself and Others: A One-Day Tarot Workshop
    Mon, March 11, 2024 Reading for Yourself and Others: A One-Day Tarot Workshop
    Thu, March 07, 2024 Sailing into Oblivion: On the High Seas with Jerome Rand
    Wed, March 06, 2024 Odawa Women in History with Eric Hemenway
    Tue, March 05, 2024 Combining Solar with Agriculture Series
    Wed, February 28, 2024 The History of Harbor Springs Part II
    Fri, February 23, 2024 Luncheon Lecture - Juvenile Justice: Better Outcomes For Young Offenders
    Thu, February 22, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Mon, February 12, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Mon, February 12, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Tue, February 06, 2024 Get More Done!
    Fri, February 02, 2024 Luncheon Lecture - Election 2024: It's a Lot Closer Than You Think!
    Thu, February 01, 2024 Winter Birding Basics and Winter Bird Photography
    Wed, January 31, 2024 Why Securing Your Financial Future and Legacy with Insurance Makes Sense
    Mon, January 29, 2024 Michigan’s Lighthouse Matriarch: Elizabeth Whitney Williams with Dianna Stampfler
    Fri, January 26, 2024 Luncheon Lecture - Leadership Little Traverse Community Service Project
    Thu, January 25, 2024 Planning Your Retirement: A Four-week Series
    Wed, January 24, 2024 Casting Lines: Fishing Rights of the Odawa in Northern Michigan with Eric Hemenway
    Tue, January 23, 2024 Pursuit of Wellness: Changing Everyday Health Practices in Uncertain Times
    Mon, January 22, 2024 Family & Friends CPR with Megan Mainland
    Mon, January 22, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Mon, January 22, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Full Provider Course
    Fri, January 19, 2024 Luncheon Lecture - The State of Public Health 2024: Charting a Path Forward
    Thu, January 18, 2024 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Wed, January 17, 2024 Treasure Ships of the Lakes with Ric Mixter
    Thu, January 11, 2024 Secrets of the Underground Railroad
    Wed, January 10, 2024 The History of Harbor Springs
    Fri, January 05, 2024 A Native History of the American Revolution
    Wed, December 20, 2023 NMSMC Setting Meaningful New Year's Goals
    Tue, December 19, 2023 Winter Tour of Castle Farms: History, Appetizers and Holiday Cheer!
    Wed, December 13, 2023 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Mon, December 11, 2023 Family & Friends CPR with Megan Mainland
    Mon, December 11, 2023 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Tue, November 21, 2023 The James Webb Space Telescope: Discoveries and Puzzles from the First Year
    Tue, November 21, 2023 NMSMC Minimize Aches and Pains During Holiday Travel
    Mon, November 20, 2023 The King of Storms with Ric Mixter
    Thu, November 16, 2023 Thanksgiving Centerpiece Floral Design at Lavender Hill Farm
    Mon, November 06, 2023 The Songs of J. Will Callahan, Tin Pan Alley’s Blind Lyricist
    Wed, November 01, 2023 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Wed, November 01, 2023 Water Quality of the Grand River
    Tue, October 24, 2023 Haunted Petoskey Ghost Walk with Christopher Struble
    Tue, October 24, 2023 Forgotten Founders
    Tue, October 24, 2023 International Lecture: Growing Up Polish in Southeast Michigan
    Tue, October 17, 2023 Midwest Grows Green: Protecting Pollinators at Home
    Tue, October 17, 2023 Oden State Fish Hatchery: From Egg, to Stream, to Lake...to Life!
    Thu, October 12, 2023 Investing 102: Stocks vs. Bonds
    Wed, October 11, 2023 Haunted Petoskey Ghost Walk with Christopher Struble
    Tue, October 10, 2023 NMSMC Fall Prevention Strategies For the Upcoming Winter
    Mon, October 09, 2023 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Fri, October 06, 2023 British History with Dr. Julie Taddeo
    Thu, October 05, 2023 Bottled Goodbyes with Ric Mixter
    Wed, October 04, 2023 Castle Farms of Charlevoix Fall Tour with Optional Wine and Live Music
    Fri, September 29, 2023 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Sun, September 24, 2023 Silk Scarf Marbling
    Thu, September 21, 2023 Glacial Landforms Walking Tour with Doug Fuller
    Wed, September 20, 2023 Fall Floral Design: A Posy in a Pumpkin!
    Sat, September 16, 2023 Introduction to Turkish Marbling on Paper and Fabric
    Thu, September 14, 2023 Hidden Superpowers of Roth IRAs
    Wed, September 13, 2023 Glacial Landforms Walking Tour with Doug Fuller
    Tue, September 12, 2023 NMSMC Making Behavior Changes Stick
    Tue, September 12, 2023 Transgender: What Can We Learn From Non-Western Societies?
    Tue, September 05, 2023 Earl A. Young Homes Walking Tour
    Thu, August 31, 2023 Historical Tour of Greenwood Cemetery: Greenwood's Earliest Burials
    Wed, August 30, 2023 Historical Tour of Greenwood Cemetery: Greenwood's Earliest Burials
    Wed, August 30, 2023 Petoskey Hemingway Tour
    Thu, August 17, 2023 Family & Friends CPR with Megan Mainland
    Wed, August 16, 2023 History Museums and Ferry Rides
    Wed, August 16, 2023 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Mon, August 14, 2023 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Wed, August 09, 2023 Lavender Hill Farm Owner-Guided Tour
    Wed, August 09, 2023 Oden State Fish Hatchery Tour: A Gem in Emmet County
    Wed, July 26, 2023 Lavender Hill Farm Owner-Guided Tour
    Thu, July 20, 2023 Lavender Hill Farm - Flowers on the Farm
    Thu, July 20, 2023 Family & Friends CPR with Megan Mainland
    Wed, July 19, 2023 BLS - Basic Life Support Skills Testing
    Mon, July 17, 2023 Tree Identification Walk at Hailand/Helstrom Family Nature Preserve
    Wed, July 12, 2023 Lavender Growing and Harvesting 101
    Thu, July 06, 2023 Lavender Growing and Harvesting 101
    Wed, June 28, 2023 Family & Friends CPR with Megan Mainland
    Tue, June 27, 2023 Getting Creative with Tarot
    Tue, June 27, 2023 BLS Skills Testing only
    Tue, June 27, 2023 2 Fused Glass Sailboat Pendants
    Sat, September 10, 2022 Creatively Engaging the Deep Rhythms of Nature in partnership with CTAC - Classroom Component
    Tue, June 22, 2021 Houseplants 101



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