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Entertainment schedule for July 31 - Aug. 6

Friday 7-31-26: — Blueberry Festival in Marquette, featuring local musicians. Main Stage 11 am - 12:30 p.m. – Steve Sandner Music with Glenn Bengry 12:30–2:15 p.m. – 906 Jazz 3-4:30 p.m. - Flat Broke Blues Band 5-6:30 p.m. – Soul Responsibility Pocket Park 12:00 noon – Make Believe Spurs 2:00 p.m. – Anna P.S. 4:00 p.m. – Yarvi Spring Street 11:30 a.m. – Finding Feathers 2:30 p.m. – Pink Violin Band 4:30 p.m. – Jenn Copeman — Hereford & Hops, 5-8 p.m. – Reflections Band — Saunders Point Brewing in Gladstone, 6-9 p.m. - Mordi Young — Leigh’s ...

Using baking soda to clean toys

Dear Heloise: I use baking soda to absorb odors in my refrigerator. I replace the box about every four months, but instead of tossing out a perfectly good box, I use the remaining contents to scrub plastic toys that my young son chews on. He's cutting teeth right now. It doesn't kill bacteria, ...

Faux pas costs me a friendship

Dear Annie: Recently, I had a major social misstep that has essentially pushed one of my best friends out of my life. During the week of my birthday, I had a mid-30s crisis; a string of bad memories from dating and bad luck with women hit me and put me in a very emotionally weakened state of ...

Sounds of summer: Marina Fest

Catching food grease

Dear Heloise: For years, I drained greasy foods on paper towels but ended up having to pick off tiny pieces of paper. Finally, I found a better way. We bought a new stove and oven combo, and I saved the oven rack from the old one we had. Now I place the oven rack over the sink with newspaper ...

Feeling the sting of supporting daughter's family

Dear Annie: My husband and I have a 34-year-old daughter who has lived with us all her life (except for maybe a year). She brought her freeloading boyfriend in. I had cancer at the time and they didn't even bother to do anything, so she ended up pregnant. I kicked her boyfriend out of the ...