Events of Monday, June 1, 2020

Rise Above Social Distancing Golf Outing.  Register your twosome and pay at RiseAboveJxn.org  Your $100 registration fee will include two (2) tee times to golf at Cascades, a goody bag from Rise Above, and a $25 gift card for lunch!  Set up your own tee time with Cascades Golf Course (517-788-4323).  You can golf any day between June 1 and June 12, Monday through Friday, golf any time.  Saturday and Sunday, golf any time after noon.  Present ticket from Rise Above on arrival to Cascades.  You can two-person scramble or play your own ball. Either way, take a picture of your scorecard and email it to veronicafernandes@riseabovejxn.org to be entered in a drawing for additional prizes.  The best team score (two-man scramble) will win a prize and then we will do two random drawings: one for a winner from the teams that submitted a team photo and one from all people who participated in the outing!  Feel great knowing you are supporting a group of students in Jackson County that are working hard toward reaching their God-given potential!

Explore The Trail System in Jackson.  Trails walking, hiking and biking are only a few of the ways you can make use of Jackson’s abundance of trails. Jackson’s trails give you a hundred great excuses to get out and experience nature in its purest form.

 Falling Waters Trail, an integral part of the statewide proposed Iron-Belle and Great Lake to Lake Trails. Placed where Michigan Central Railroad once stood, the Falling Waters Trail is a 10.6-mile linear park connecting the Village of Concord to the City of Jackson.  Next, the Falling Waters Trail continues for 3.4 miles as the Martin Luther King Equality Trail, formerly the Inter-City Trail, from Jackson’s Weatherwax Drive to Morrell Street. And finally, the Grand River Arts Walk leads walkers, joggers and cyclists from Downtown Jackson through the Arts District and onto Monroe Street.

Waterloo Recreation Area, the largest state park in the lower peninsula, contains enough trails to last a lifetime. 47 miles of hiking trails,12 miles of interpretive nature trails, and another 12 miles of equestrian trails are all nestled within 20,000 acres of protected forest.

The MacCready Reserve, south of town, includes 6.5 miles of dog-friendly trails among 400 acres of lush forest environment.

The Dahlem provides five miles of diverse trails. Walk among forests, fields, marshes and ponds, including a ⅜-mile trail for those with limited mobility, called the “The Nature For All Trail”. Trails are open year-round

Red Cross Blood Drives. To support social distancing, appointments are now required. With thousands of blood drives cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are working hard to open new donation sites. The need for blood is constant – patients need your help.The American Red Cross has an ongoing critical need for blood and platelet donations amidst coronavirus uncertainties.  You can make an appointment to give blood or platelets at redcrossblood.org

Tuesday, June 2:  Spring Arbor Free Methodist Church, Spring Arbor  12:00 PM – 05:45 PM

Monday, June 8:  Christ Lutheran Church, 4250 Page Avenue

Michigan Center,12:00 PM – 05:45 PM

Tuesday, June 9:  Jackson College, 2111 Emmons Rd

Jackson.  10:00 AM – 03:45 PM