Did you know? Faith in Action also accepts garden fresh food

Now that we're in the peak of the garden growing season, friends and neighbors may find themselves with more tomatoes, zucchini and other veggies than they know what to do with. You may be happy to learn that Faith In Action in Chelsea and Dexter welcomes donations of fresh food from your home garden for their food pantry.

To learn more about Faith In Action, contact them at (734) 475-3305 or visit the FIA website at www.faithinaction1.org.

Faith In Action has also just updated their pantry needs list on their website:

ITEMS CURRENTLY NEEDED
IN THE FIA FOOD PANTRY

• Stuffing
• Pork and Beans
• Beans in Chili Sauce
• Canned, fresh or frozen meat
• Oranges, Pineapple, Pears
• Healthy Snacks
• Mustard, Ketchup, and Mayo
• Shampoo and Conditioner
• Laundry Soap
• Kleenex
• Razors and Shaving Cream

Updated August 27, 2009

Chelsea Community Fair Starts Today!

The 2009 Chelsea Community Fair begins today! Technically it started already, with entries entered and exhibits well underway, but the official start to the fair takes place after the annual Children's Parade (Tuesday 8/25 at 5:30).

The full schedule is available on the fair website: Chelsea Fair's 2009 Main Schedule. Here are a few highlights:

Location
Chelsea Fair Grounds
20501 Old US-12
Chelsea, Michigan 48118
[MAP]

Admission
$7 per day. Children 10 and under are free; Senior citizens get in free on Thursday. You can also buy a season pass which is good all week for $25 person / $15 for students and senior citizens. There is an additional cost for the midway rides, which can be purchased per ticket or for an all day pass. Prices for rides are not listed on the fair website, but I will try to find out and post it here.

Schedule Highlights
The fair takes place from 10am until 10pm Tuesday 8/19 through Saturday 8/23. See the ChelseaFair.org website for full schedule.

• Rides open Tuesday at 5pm
• Children's Parade and Tricycle Pull - Tuesday 5:30pm
• Animal exhibits - every day
• Nature's Creation of Life tent - every day
• Demolition Derby - Tuesday and Wednesday night
• Figure 8 Derby - Thursday night
• Chainsaw Carving - several shows daily
• Horse Shows - various times each day
• Colors the Clown - Tues 5-8pm, Wed through Sat 3-7pm
• Ladies Day - begins Friday at 8am
• Tractor Pull - Saturday night
• Chelsea Fair Parade - Saturday 1pm

See you at the fair!

Sign up to Run for the Rolls

It's not too late to join Chelsea's third annual 1-mile run/walk from the Chelsea Fire Station to the Chelsea Fairgrounds. The race starts at 12:30 on August 29 and follows the Chelsea Fair parade route, so your friends and neighbors can cheer you on as they hold down prime parade-watching spots.
You can register at the corner of Taylor St. and Old US 12 on the day of the run, or visit http://runfortherolls.com/ and sign up online. (Entry fee is $15/$30 per household/$10 if you don't want a T-shirt)

Do you have a great place for a movie location? Check in with Chelsea's Film Location Scout

A note from Chelsea's Volunteer Film Location Scout
Did you know that Chelsea has it's very own volunteer location scout? This person is the liaison between the City of Chelsea and the Michigan Film Office. The Michigan Film Office keeps a database of photos of locations for movie producers to view and consider for filming. We are in the process of gathering great photos of Chelsea to add to the Film Office’s database, and have recently been asked to focus on some specific types of locations for current and upcoming projects. Here’s what they’re looking for:

• Beaches and shorelines (public or private)
• Resorts (golf, and all inclusive vacation resorts)
• Police Precincts
• Jails or Prisons (all or a portion must not be in use. Functional jails are difficult to film in)
• Unique Modern Buildings (must look futuristic)
• Bed and Breakfast Accommodations
• Isolated Cabins
• Isolated Motels
• Small Municipal Airports and Airstrips
• Grocery Store (mom and pop, or large local stores willing to work with a film)
• Tunnels (caves, tunnels, large storm drains, or underground waterways, etc.)
• Churches (small rural, and large urban)

These locations are just the current focus. Overall they are looking for every type of location. The more pictures in their database, the more the opportunities there are to bring more movie business to Chelsea. Please note that private residences are kept as restricted access on the Film Office’s database. Information on your home will not be available for public access. If anyone is the private owner of one of these types of locations and would be interested in allowing a film crew in for a movie, please contact:

Susanne Vanden Bosch
Volunteer Film Location Scout for Chelsea
Email: svandenbosch@comcast.net

Send in your nomination for Citizen of the Year!

Nominations for Citizen of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Award: Deadline August 14, 2009
The Chelsea Area Chamber of Commerce is now accepting nominations for The Chelsea Citizen of the Year and The Lifetime Achievement Award. Candidates must either live, work, or participate in Chelsea or one of the surrounding townships.

Please include the person’s name, phone number, address, who is recommending them and their contact number. In a separate letter, please list the qualifications of the candidate who is being considered for his or her contributions to any and/or all facets of the community over the last year or more. Include:

• volunteer work
• church activities
• organizations (civic/fraternal/social, with offices held, length of service etc.)
• special events the candidate has organized and/or participated in
• any other items of significance

Also accepting nominations for Lifetime Achievement Award
To nominate a person for the Lifetime Achievement Award, please include the person’s name, phone number, address, who is recommending them and their contact number. In a separate letter, please list the qualifications of the candidate who is being considered for his or her lifetime achievements and/or contributions to the community over their lifetime. Include volunteer work, leadership positions and active roles in the community during his or her life.

For more information
If you have any questions or would like to pick up an official form, please contact the Chelsea Chamber at 734-475-1145 or download it from our website at www.chelseamichamber.org. Please mail your recommendations to the Chelsea Chamber at 310 N. Main Street, Ste. 120, Chelsea, MI 48118, by Friday, August 14, 2009.

Detroit FreePress talks to Jeff Daniels about how the arts can change lives

Excerpt from the Detroit Free Press - 8/2/2009

How the arts can change lives
The tall kid was leaving basketball practice when the teacher directing the school musical called him over. "South Pacific" was in desperate need of guys for the chorus, not an uncommon problem at smaller schools. Since the tall kid was in choir, could he please, please join the crew of singing sailors?
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The kid was Jeff Daniels, then a sophomore at Chelsea High School, now a veteran of more than 50 movies -- his latest is "The Answer Man" -- and on hiatus from a starring role in the award winning Broadway play "God of Carnage."

If not for that teacher's plea, Daniels said in an interview after I saw him in "Carnage," he would probably today be working at the family lumber company in Chelsea.

"Not a bad thing," he said. "But I'm really no good at math. ... I'm a product of the arts."

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