Knowing what the weather is going to be like helps make life a little easier. Just this week alone, it was 50 degrees outside on Monday, down to the teens in the middle of the week, with snow in the forecast for the next couple days!
This weekend, February 7-9, Back to the Bricks and General Motors presents the Chrome & Ice Winter Classic Car Event at the Dort Financial Event Center. This annual event showcases the best classic cars in an entertaining atmosphere. This year, Chrome & Ice pays honor to the great American sports car – the Corvette. The lobby of the event center will feature a Corvette from each of its 8 generations and visitors to Chrome & Ice will get the opportunity to take a peek at the latest 2020 edition of the car.
Visitors can explore the deep sea and have fun with physics at Sloan Museum this upcoming Saturday. Two new exhibits, “Extreme Deep: Mission to the Abyss” and “Roll, Drop, Bounce,” open Saturday, February 1 at Sloan Museum at Courtland Center Mall, according to a recently released statement.
Seeing Stars! is the Flint School of Performing Arts’ signature fundraising event. Since its inception in 1997, this event has been vital in raising nearly $3,000,000 in tuition assistance to ensure students have the opportunity to realize their music or dance dreams regardless of family circumstances. Come enjoy a strolling buffet of signature dishes provided by restaurants throughout Genesee County and leave with an understanding of your impact on the students from the Flint School of Performing Arts music and dance programs. Seating is limited to 200. 6-9pm.
Yes, it’s that day we have been waiting for. It’s National Rubber Duckie Day and it is always celebrated on January 13, according to holidayinsights.com. Muppet Ernie of Sesame Street first sang the song in 1970. The Rubber Duckie song reached No. 16 on the Top 100 Chart that year and it is still one of the most favorite childhood songs of all time.
The Genesee District Library always presents an action-packed weekend for the little ones and the upcoming weekend is no exception. On Saturday, January 11 the library presents Bubbleman! Bubbleman (also known as Ron Loyd) enchants library patrons with his strange and mesmerizing bubble magic. See volcano bubbles, tornado bubbles, kaleidoscope bubbles, square bubbles, and more. No bubble is too big for the Bubbleman! Please RSVP online at thegdl.org. Bubbleman will be performing at 11am at Burton Memorial Library and at 2pm at the Davison Area Library.
For-Mar Nature Preserve and Arboretum is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2020 and what better way to kick off the celebration than with a New Year Hike. For-Mar has been inspiring Genesee County residents to get outside for 50 years.
Science Fiction has long been the realm of the dreamer. Years past, if you admitted your love of Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Flash Gordon or more, you were generally mocked. How things change. Today, science fiction and fantasy stories are the most popular things going. Comics are huge, Star Wars is bigger than it has ever been and shows like “Game of Thrones” or “The Witcher” are all the rage.
