Blood drive Friday in Rogers City
With the cooperation of the Rogers City High School’s Key Club and the Kiwanis Club, Versiti Blood Center of Michigan will host a blood drive in Rogers City on Friday.
The drive will be held from 9 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. at the Rogers City Senior and Community Center.Appointments can be made online at www.versiti.org (use the donate link) or by phone at 866-642-5663.
Alpena library hosts adult book club
Last month, Alpena County Library Book Club members discussed three Native American authors Louise Erdrich of the Chippewa nation, Leslie Marmon Silko of the Laguna Pueblo nation, and N. Scott Momaday of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society and their contributions to literature. For the upcoming March meeting, book club members are encouraged to read a book of their choice by one of these authors.
News Photo by Darby Hinkley
Ruth DeWyre will turn 100 on March 4.
ALPENA – This 99-year-old never thought she’d live to see 100, but she will become a centenarian on Thursday, March 4.
“I had no idea,” she said of making it this far. “I have days when I feel pretty good, and then there’s other days … I have Parkinson’s disease and heart trouble.”
You wouldn’t know it by looking at her, though. Poised in a lovely purple paisley dress and wearing lipstick, you can tell this lady is classy. She lives in her own apartment at a senior living facility in Alpena.