This is a very busy time of year for the members of GPA! The Fashion Show Committee is preparing for this year's event to be held May 19, sending out and receiving applications for the Annual Arts & Crafts Show in October, and preparing to plant flowers! (if the snow ever stays away) The Beautification Committee will once again be hanging flower baskets and planting the large pots downtown, and planting flowers along the Business Loop. Tickets for the Fashion Show are only $20 in advance, … [Read more...]

By the time you read this it may be a little late for Merry Christmas – So – I’m wishing you a Very Happy New Year – 2018.   May it be all you hope for and more.   I wish you good health – good friends – and safe journey to wherever you go.  If you don’t “go” anywhere – may your days at home be happy ones. This has been a very busy month – for GPA, for me personally, and probably for most of you.  GPA had a very successful Festival of Trees.  We had more … [Read more...]

By the time this gets into print Deer Season will be in full swing,   Thanksgiving dinner will be a memory and the left-overs will be gone.  Everyone is now in a panic to get the Christmas decorations out and up and the ‘lists’ made and the shopping has begun.  Hope you made good use of our Bearly Used  GPA Christmas Shop this year.  It was full of wonderful decorations and gifts at rock-bottom prices.    Our Festival of Trees was another … [Read more...]

They say time flies when you’re having fun.  Seems to me it flies in the summer whether you’re having fun or just keeping busy around the house.  If you’re involved in your community with an organization or two it really gets crazy!  I keep telling myself being busy is good for me.  Hope I’m right. The GPA Fashion Show was a great success.  Kirtland was a perfect venue and their management team couldn’t have been more helpful.  The big room was just right, the … [Read more...]

New banners are hanging on the Business Loop, thanks to the generosity of GPA! … [Read more...]

GPA members are busy making plans for their 2017 events. We'll have a booth at the Grayling Chamber Expo on April 20, and Pictionary is scheduled for April 21. The Fashion Show will be May 20, and is being held at the Community Room at the new Kirtland Health Sciences Building. Changes for that event include having vendors, a time change with a brunch instead of lunch, and a silent auction. The Beautification Committee is just waiting for spring to plant the flowers you see all over town. … [Read more...]

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The Festival of Trees Committee is preparing for this year's big event. Over 55 trees, decorated by area businesses and non-profits will be set up in the Grayling Mini Mall, thanks to the ongoing support of John Cherven. Tickets will be sold from November 12-26, and the drawings will be held on the 27th. For more information, check out https://www.graylingpromotional.org/events/festival-of-trees-3 … [Read more...]

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Have you noticed the beautiful flowers around town? GPA has been busy working with Michigan's Grayling Mainstreet to make sure that town looks beautiful. … [Read more...]