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GLCC News

  • Port Captain James Morrin has posted a news update on the Chicago Harbor System. Details here...

  •  A Port-Huron/Sarnia group, The Mariner's Coalition, has produced a handy business-card with border-crossing contact information, as well as a CD-ROM explaining customs and immigration regulations for Canada-U.S.

  • Attendance at Strictly Sail in Chicago, January 28-31, was surprisingly strong, and the GLCC booth did very well signing up new members. Read more here...

  • About 90 members and guest attended the GLCC's Lake Superior Mid-Winter Dinner on Jan. 16.

  • The Toronto International Boat Show was a success for the GLCC. Read more here...

     

  • GLCC member Roy Eaton of Little Current has been honored as Volunteer of the Year  by the Canadian Safe Boating Counci (CASBA).

  • Scientists are developing batteries based on paper, made from fresh-water algae—the stringy stuff that washes up on beaches and clogs your water-intake strainer.

  • A WWII Navy Hellcat fighter plane was pulled from Lake Michigan last weekend, the second trainer plane to be recovered this year, and the sixth since the end of the war.

  • The Lauren Harris sketch, "Old Stump, Lake Superior," sold for $3.5 million at auction.

  •  The on-line Great Lakes Echo is cataloging recent songs about the Great Lakes, and looking for songs they may have missed.