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It’s home to Oscoda, where salmon and trout fisher-men, canoeists and powerboaters take advantage of the local lakes and the famous majestic AuSable River.

And it’s home to the western reaches of the county, which host the heart of the Huron National Forest with its pristine woods, rivers, lakes and streams.

Summer is short but sweet in Iosco County and its residents make the best of it. Here you’ll find festivals, events and celebrations all summer long with restau-rants, taverns, lodging, marinas, golf courses and shop-ping opportunities that you’ll never find at home.

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HALE – For chills, thrills and excitement there’s no better place to be than at this year’s Iosco County Fair July 26-31 at the fairgrounds in Hale.

Featured during the 77th rendition will be carnival rides, horse and pony pull-ing contests, youth animal judging, a demolition derby, concerts, petting zoo and a rodeo.

The Iosco County Fair will of course have animal exhibit competitions. Exhibi-tors can enter horses, live-stock, swine, sheep, goats, poultry, and rabbits; as well as farm produce, grain, veg-etables, fruit, flowers and plants.

Iosco County Fair hits 77th rendition

EAST TAWAS – Visi-tors can sip choice Michigan wines and ales and sample local cuisine at the 11th an-nual Tawas Uncork’d Wine, Ale & Food Festival on Aug. 7.

The event will be held from noon to 6 p.m. at East Tawas Harbor Park.

Tawas Uncork’d, a Friends of the East Tawas Library benefit to raise funds for the new library, will bring Michigan wine, Michigan ales, food and mellow music to the Sunrise Side.

Tickets are available at the door.

Tawas Uncork’d is ‘grape success’

File photo TANK PRANK – First-time fair goer Conner Hampton, 5, Mio, was treated to one memorable – and hilarious – experience in Hale last Wednesday, during the Live Shark Encounter show. One of the presenters explained that those in the audience always ask if the glass is going to break. So, he sought out a volunteer to test the strength of the tank before kicking off the show. Hampton quickly threw up his hand, not knowing that a gag was in store. When the youngster tapped on the glass, water came spewing out and he made a beeline in the opposite direction. But it was all in fun, and Hampton was even given a real shark tooth as a souvenir for being such a good sport.

There are specials going on for ride-all-day bracelets during the fair.

For more information, visit the fair’s website at www.ioscocountyfair.com.

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File photo DEFENDING CHAMPS – Because COVID-19 restrictions cancelled the 2020 race, Andrew Triebold, front, of Grayling and racing partner Steve Lajoie, left, of Mirabel, Quebec cross the finish line to take first place 2019 AuSable River International Canoe Marathon. The pair finished with a time of 14:15:34 and have won 11 races together and are now the defending champions.

OSCODA – Like many events across the globe, CO-VID-19 forced cancellation of the 2020 Consumers En-ergy AuSable River Canoe Marathon.

This year, the last week-end in July will now mark the 73rd year for what’s been called the most grueling and challenging canoe race in the world: the AuSable River Canoe Marathon.

Competitors in this year’s race, set for July 24-25, will cover 120 miles of the AuS-able’s twists and turns from Grayling to Oscoda, pad-dling more than 50,000 strokes by the time they reach the finish line.

Every year, with 2020 be-ing one of the exceptions, the canoe marathon draws tens of thousands of visitors and race fans to the banks of the mighty AuSable to watch and cheer on their favorite teams, some of them keep-ing track from every bridge to every dam.

The canoe marathon starts

in Grayling at 9 p.m. July 24 when a cannon is fired and paddlers get a running start to launch their boats into the river. This is the begin-ning of their nonstop jour-ney as they continue a 50- to 60-stroke per minute pace all night to Oscoda’s finish line, arriving between 11 a.m. and noon the next day.

The teams will compete for more than $50,000 in prize money, but even more gratifying than the winnings is the enormous sense of pride the winning teams take away with them. Just finish-ing the race is an extremely notable accomplishment in itself.

Typically more than 90 two-person teams compete in the canoe marathon. As of last week, 68 teams have so far singed up to paddle the marathon.

Andrew Triebold, 42, of Grayling and Steve Lajoie, 42, of Mirabel, Quebec, Que-bec teamed up once again to win the 72st rendition of the

race in a time of 14:15:34.Finishing the race in sec-

ond place in 2019, with a time of 14 hours, 20 minutes and 13 seconds, was the St. Bon-iface, Quebec team of Guil-laume Blais, 33, and Samuel Frigon, 23. Third place fin-ishers Chris Issendorf, 37, Dripping Springs, Texas and Pete Mead, 38, Traverse City, had a finish time of 14 hours, 21 minutes and 18 seconds.

The marathon has been called the toughest spectator sport in the world, and for good reason. Many race fans will stay awake for most of the two days while following the race driving from bridge to bridge and dam to dam to cheer on their favorite teams before arriving at the finish line nearly as exhausted as the racers themselves.

For more information on the race, contact the Oscoda-AuSable Chamber of Commerce or go to the marathon’s web site at www.ausablecanoemarathon.org.

Jamfest is a go for July 24 in HaleHALE - Jamfest 2021, a

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The festival is pesented by IMPACT Ministries, Inc. and also features food ven-dors, a craft and vendor show and a family fun zone.

The music festival will

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the dog days of summer, the warm season nears its end and leaves many folks feel-ing the blues.

Don’t fret. A cure for the blues is just around the cor-ner later this summer – the corner of Newman Street and US-23 in East Tawas.

The Tawas Bay Blues So-ciety is hosting its 19th an-nual “Blues by the Bay” Aug. 27-29. The three-day festi-val is located under a large “Blues Big Top” at the Tawas Bay waterfront next to the East Tawas Harbor of Ref-uge.

Last year’s blues festival was cancelled due to the CO-VID-19 pandemic.

This year’s lineup in-cludes Erich Goebel and The Flying Crowbars, Mis-sissippi Heat, Whiskey Bot-tle Blues, Kathleen & The Bridge Street Band, Chicago Rhythm and Blues Kings, Eliza Neals, Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers, The Blues Abusers, and The Sax Maniacs.

In addition to the music a variety of vendors will of-fer food during the festival, ranging from Cajun to hot dogs and Polish sausage.

A souvenir button is the admission to all three days of the festival. Cost for this year’s button is yet to be de-termined.

Organized in 2002, the Tawas Blues by the Bay fes-tival is an all volunteer or-ganization dedicated to the promotion, awareness and preservation of blues music and it’s culture.

For more information, visit, www.bluesbythebayta-was.org.

Courtesy photo by Jane CassisiPOWERHOUSE DETROIT SOUL – Laura Rain & the Caesars perform during dur-ing the 18th annual Blues by the Bay in East Tawas, which was held in 2019. Courtesy photo by Tiffany Bischoff

BLUES LEGEND – John Primer and the Real Deal Blues Band closed out Blues by the Bay in 2019. The Chi-cago bluesman and legend is a two-time Grammy nomi-nated artist.

Courtesy photo byKatie Murphy

WILL BE MISSED – Back by popular demand, Big Ray and the Motor City Kings returned in 2019 for the seventh straight year. Big Ray Haywood passed away unexpectedly on Feb. 24.

Courtesy photo byJane Cassisi

NEW WAVE – Perform-er and singer/songwriter from Kentucky, Erin Co-burn captivates her audi-ences with her prowess on guitar, her powerful vocals and brings her own style of Rock with Blues influ-ences. She is pictured here performing during the 2019 event.

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On July 10, a Classic Car Cruise at Auto Value in Tawas City at 6 p.m. (line-up at 5 to 6 p.m.) with the cruise cars on display in downtown East Tawas at 7 p.m.; and a

Street Dance featuring No Bologna from 7 to 11 p.m., Newman Street, East Tawas

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File photo STREET VIEW – Visitors to the annual Tawas Bay Summerfest Car Show begin fill-ing Newman Street in downtown East Tawas during the morning hours of the show.

Photo by John MorrisSHOW STOPPER – This 2001 Grand Am GTI Coupe, named “Dark Angel,” was a crowd pleaser during the 2020 Summerfest Car Show in downtown East Tawas Sunday.

60th Waterfront Fine Art Show is slated Aug. 7-8

TAWAS CITY – Tawas Bay will be the picturesque backdrop Aug. 7-8 for one of Michigan’s most prestigious and longest running fine art shows.

Dozens of artisans will exhibit their works during the 60th annual Tawas Bay Waterfront Fine Art Show.

The show is held in the Tawas City Shoreline Park and is being put on by the Tawas Bay Arts Council and Gallery.

Visitors to this year’s fine art show will find arts works and other collectible that will be judged in many media categories.

Each category will receive first through third place rib-bons and cash awards will be presented Aug. 7 in the park gazebo to the top four “Best of Show” exhibitors.

Artists in the juried show are required to make appli-cation and send in color pho-tographs or slides of their work for scrutiny by a selec-tion committee.

The committee looks at the quality of each work, type of display to be used and the number of partici-pants showing the same me-dium before deciding if the

File photoBEST OF SHOW – Kat Zinn of Clio won Best of Show for her pen and ink artwork during the 58th and 59th annual Tawas Bay Waterfront Fine Art Festival. She also won the fine art show’s top award in 2015.

artist should be allowed in the show.

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Nine Michigan-made origi-nal rock bands will be raising funds for the Veterans Memorial Park Foundation of Northeastern Michigan. Food and merchandise will be sold, with a cornhole tour-nament as well.

Rockfest is slated Aug. 14 in Oscoda

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OSCODA – The annual Wurtsmith Air Museum Fly-In and Pancake Breakfast will be presented two days again this year, Aug. 21-22, at the museum located at 4071 E. Van Ettan St. on the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda.

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OSCODA – Annual fun canoe races return to Oscoda again this year ahead of the AuSable River International Canoe Marathon.

On July 21 will be the 9th an-nual Hurry Up and Paddle or Sink (HUP) race.

The goal is to build a canoe which will stay afloat for the en-tire race course in the AuSable River at Oscoda Canoe Rental and

the AuSable River Store. The following day the 7th an-

nual Blind (folded) Canoe Race located at Oscoda Canoe Rental and AuSable River Store.

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Fun canoe races return to Oscoda for 2021OSCODA – The annual

Curley Memorial Canoe Race will kick off the week-end of July 10-11 on the AuSable River in Oscoda.

The weekend-long series of events includes a “warm-up” competition between professional paddlers who will undertake the grueling AuSable River Canoe Mara-thon just two weeks later. The C-2 race will be held Saturday, July 10 and the C-1 race is Sunday, July 11. In the much shorter race from Cooke Dam down to Oscoda, racers will get an idea of the levels of competition they’ll face in the Marathon.

The MCRA-sanctioned race memorializes local ca-noe legends Harry, Jerry and Kevin Curley.

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Thursdays: 9 a.m. Stroller Barre at thePark-Free Family Friendly fitness class courtesy

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Saturdays: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Northeast Michigan Farm Market, Gateway Park, Tawas City

Second Saturday of the Month: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Vintage Market Sale, Brugger Plaza, Tawas Ctiy

July4: Independence Day Parade, 1 p.m.

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10-11: Summer Fest Car Cruise & Show26-31: Iosco County Fair

August7: Tawas Uncork’d, Harbor Park, East Tawas

7-8: Fine Arts Festival, Shoreline Park,Tawas City

12-14: Sidewalk Sales, Newman Street,East Tawas

27-29: Blues by the Bay, Harbor Park,East Tawas

September4-5: Labor Day Arts & Craft Show,

Shoreline Park, Tawas City11: Sunrise Side Triathlon

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SAND LAKE – The name has changed for this year, but most of the events remain the same.

The annual Sand Lake Festival, now named the All Lakes Block Party, will be held Aug. 13-14.

According to organizers, “due to a lack of time to ob-tain a liquor and gambling license for the annual Sum-mer Festival sponsored by the Men’s Association this seemed like a good idea. It is not intended to replace the festival.”

The block party will still host an array of events for people young and old.

The block party kicks off at noon Aug. 13 with a senior lunch at the Sand Lake Com-munity Hall followed by a euchre tournament. Bingo in the hall for adults begins with the early bird at 6 p.m. A family walk-in bingo will be held in the pavilion from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and is fol-lowed at 8:30 with a “Brown Bag Auction.”

An outdoor family movie is slated for dusk on a 24-foot screen. Those attend-ing are asked to bring lawn chairs or blankets.

A parade, with a 50s and 60s theme, starts thing off on Saturday, Aug. 14 at 10 a.m.

Line-up is a 9 a.m.A family midway will be

held from noon to 3 p.m. and the Famous Grant Township Fireman Burgers will again be served this year.

Also slated Saturday is a Corn Hole Tournament at 2 p.m. A vendors and craft show and music by Gibson & Seal from 1 to 5 p.m. and Flipside from 7 to 11 p.m.

Sand Lake Block Party is Aug. 13-14

File photoJUST DUCKY – This rolling bubble bath was among a host of golf carts in the parade golf carts in the 2019 pa-rade, as the machines were judged in the categories of best, worst and most unusual.

Michigan Mud Jam is setHALE – The annual

Michigan Mud Jam will take place Aug. 17-22 at the Iosco County Fairgrounds in Hale.

Rob and Melissa Streeter of Hale, along with Wes and Julie Runyan of National City, started the event in 2013.

For those who want to camp out during the event, the option is available on a first come, first served basis and the cost is included with the admission charge.

For more information, go to www.michiganmudjam.com.