Ray Spelzer's House - Dexter - Long Beach, CA

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 I am really enjoying watching Dexter...Season 7 in real time.  Ifinally broke down and added Showtime to my Cable channels.The above Long Beach house stood in for Ray Speltzer's house inEpisode 3.  It looked a lot less scary that it looked on the show.Ray is the gravedigger serial killer that picks up women andtakes them to his house which is set up like a maze.  He hunts themdown.  I think I've mentioned a couple times before that thewebsite SeeingStars.com has all the Dexter filming locations  byepisode and season.  I refer to it each time I watch the show. Thereare generally a couple of locations in each episode that I MUSTsee in person...and this house was one of them.

Hannah's Nursery - Dexter - Long Beach, Ca

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 Several weeks ago I read online that Dexter, Season 7 was being filmed in Long Beach.  I headed out to watch, butunfortunately, the street was all blocked off and I couldn't getclose.  Today when I went to see this house, I realized it wasthe same place.  Hannah's house and nursery is whereDexter and Angel went to get DNA samples. Hannah was theformer girlfriend of Wayne Randall (the convict that killedhimself in Episode 2).

Zsa Zsa Gabor's Home - Beverlly Hills, Ca

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 Ben Affleck directed the recent movie ARGO, which Isaw last week and absolutely LOVED.  Argo is based on atrue story of a film producer working with the CIA to helpreturn 6 Embassy workers to the USA.  They pretend to beshooting a sci-fi film in the area.  Alan Arkin portrays Lester Siegelthe producer and he lives in this house at 1001 Bel Air Drivewhich is actually Zsa Zsa's house.  The house is up for sale now.This is the front of Zsa Zsa's house taken from the internet.Most of it is not visible from the pictures I took.  

Keweenaw Nordic Ski Club to meet Feb. 20 at Hancock Chalet

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HANCOCK -- Keweenaw Nordic Ski Club's monthly meeting will take place at 7 p.m. this Wednesday, Feb.20, at the Hancock chalet. UPDATE: If the chalet is not plowed/shoveled out the meeting will be at John Diebel's house, 611 Lake Ave, Hancock. Go behind McGann's, across the snowmoblile trail, down the hill and his house is the corner house.All are welcome to attend. Questions? Call Jay Green at 906-487-5411 or email him at jbgreen45@charter.net.

Community group seeks responses to survey on potential charter school

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HOUGHTON -- The Community Alliance for Progressive Education (CAPE) is a group of parents and other community members in Houghton County who are working to broaden educational opportunities for the children in the local community. The group is in the process of creating a new public charter school that will offer children a progressive, child-centered learning experience.

They have created a 5-10 minute survey to collect other parents' opinions on the educational options that are available in Houghton County now. They also want to measure interest in the features that will make the new school different from others in the area.

All surveys that are completed by the end of February will be entered into a random drawing for two $25 Econofoods gift cards.

To respond to the survey, please go to:
www.surveymonkey.com/s/Educational_choices_in_Houghton_County.

For statistically relevant results, CAPE needs over 352 respondents.

More information about CAPE and the plans for the new school can be found on their website, superiorcape.org and their Facebook page, www.facebook.com/SuperiorCAPE

Green Film on global water crisis to be shown Feb. 21 at Michigan Tech

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HOUGHTON -- Michigan Tech's Green Film Series continues on one Thursday a month through May in the Atrium and G002 Hesterberg Hall, Michigan Tech Forestry Building. Films begin at 7 p.m. and are followed by coffee, dessert, and facilitated discussion until 8:30 p.m.
Cost: Free, $3 suggested donation

The next film, Last Call at the Oasis (108 min.), will be shown Thursday, Feb. 21. Be it through consumption or contamination, water is becoming more scarce globally, including in the United States. The global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century. We can manage this problem, but only if we are willing to act now. Last Call at the Oasis is a powerful new documentary that shatters myths behind our most precious resource. This film exposes defects in the current system, shows communities already struggling with its ill-effects and highlights individuals championing revolutionary solutions during the global water crisis. Firmly establishing the global water crisis as the central issue facing our world this century, the film posits that we can manage this problem if we act now.

The discussion Facilitator will be Alex Mayer, Michigan Tech professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Mayer’s teaching and research are directed towards human-environment interactions, water resources management, watershed management and modeling, and groundwater flow, transport, and remediation. His work focuses on the Great Lakes and Mexico.

Click here to see the schedule of green films.

Northern Michigan University to host community forum on conservation, local sustainability Feb. 21-22

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MARQUETTE -- A community forum about conservation and local sustainability will be held this Thursday and Friday, Feb. 21-22, at Northern Michigan University in Marquette.

All events will be in the Mead Auditorium, 2701 West Science. The forum is free and open to the public. It is presented by the NMU Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Department.

Curt Meine, author of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work, will give a presentation on connecting conservation efforts across landscapes at 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Feb. 21. Meine is also a senior member of the Aldo Leopold Foundation.

On Friday, Feb. 22, there will be a light breakfast at 8:30 a.m. and a screening of Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time, at 9 a.m., followed by a community panel discussion on local sustainability efforts from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

The overarching question is, "What might a land ethic in our community entail?" The panelists, representing various perspectives, include Karen Bacula, environmental science teacher, Marquette Senior High School; Aimée Cree Dunn, contingent instructor, NMU Center for Native American Studies; John Frye, NMU undergraduate and co-owner of Dancing Crane Farm; Jessica Koski, mining technical assistant, Natural Resources Department, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community; Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold Foundation; Jessica Thompson, assistant professor, NMU Department of Communication and Performance Studies.

The audience will first hear from each panelist on his/her thoughts about the Leopold movie, but the bigger objective is to engage audience members in a meaningful conversation of conservation and sustainability today. For details, call 906-227-2587 or email Teresa Bertossi at tbertoss@nmu.edu.