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Giving Day

U.P. counties get humanities grants

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI--   Four Upper Peninsula nonprofit groups have received grants from the Michigan Humanities Council.  

Money is awarded annually to organizations that support cultural, educational and community-based public humanities programs. 

$15,000 was approved for the Calumet Theatre Company in Houghton County. 

In Chippewa County another $15,000 is slated for the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society; $2,930 is going to Lake Superior State University; and $5,674 is going to the Bayliss Public Library in the Soo.

For more information go to www.michiganhumanities.org. 

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.