Looking for something to do this weekend? Gizzardfest starts tonight in downtown Potterville. Weekend activities include amusement rides, a beer tent, antique tractor show, 5K run, softball tourney, basketball tourney, mud drags, fireworks and of course, a gizzard eating competition. It’s supposed to be a fairly nice weekend, so it might be worth checking out.
For a complete list of events, click here
Damn, I haven’t been able to make it there for a meal yet….but they’ll still be open for Sunday Brunch.
The Cadillac Club, known for it’s delicious dinners and lunches, will be discontinuing that part of the business for the summer beginning the second week of June. The Events, Banquets, and Catering divisions of the business will remain active, and there are many exciting events coming up.
The Restaurant has not gotten the support from the community that it needs to sustain a daily food service operation. Events and Banquets have become the mainstay of the business, proving to be highly successful, and the catering division of the business is booming, but the restaurant has fallen short on the day to day operations. The Restaurant’s Sunday Brunch d’Elegance offering will remain intact, however, and is developing as a “weekly event”, providing an opportunity for the public to continue to enjoy the delectable dishes of Executive Chef Brett Telder. Organizers are planning to feature a Summer Spirit Music Program, inviting the spiritual singers in our Greater Lansing Area Churches to perform on the Cadillac Club Stage during the 1o’clock hour during Sunday Brunch.
The Gigantic Kitchen at the Cadillac Club will be offered for rent to catering groups, and the entire facility is available for banquets or events that would involve 50 or more attendees. Persons holding Cadillac Club Gift Certificates can redeem them at the Sunday Brunch or order Take Out or Catering.
Cadillac Club Owner, David Sheets, and Staff are disappointed that the restaurant endeavor did not get supported as needed to sustain, but are optimistic about the events that are coming. This weekend will be the final Friday and Saturday night to enjoy the weekly dining and dancing at the club, and the restaurant will go out in style with the amazing Salsa band Ritmo, this Saturday, June 7th. Pete Townsend will entertain during the Dinner hour Both Friday and Saturday night.
“It would cost more to attempt to keep the restaurant business open over the summer than it will to simply shut down the operation for that period. The restaurant business is tough in general, but in the summer, in Lansing, in a light traffic area like REO Town, it is a money losing operation.”, says Owner David Sheets.
The Cadillac Club has played a major role in the community, helping dozens of organizations raise funds and awareness for their causes, and will continue to do so. Also, the Restaurant has fed the homeless, and victims of tragedies, during the Holidays. The Cadillac Club initiated many great programs for the community like: The Miss Capital City Scholarship Pageant, The Cadillac Club Community Fundraising Program, Stuff the Cadillacs for the Food Bank, Cadillac Club Idol, The Battle of the High School Bands, etc. The Club has also hosted many great events such as The Angel House Bachelor Auction, The Addy Awards, and Breakin’ Bread with the Blues, …it has been all about community. Club organizers were very involved in creating The REO Town Music Festival, and have produced many great local, Regional and National Concerts that have taken place on the Cadillac Club Stages. “With the Cadillac Club I have attempted to give back to the community, and do something great for the community….It is a huge disappointment to me that we are going in the direction of scaling back at this time,” Says David Sheets.
There are many great opportunities in June however to still take advantage of the Cadillac Club’s great ambience and delicious food.
These are the upcoming dates that the Club will be offering events in June:
Open All June Sundays for Sunday Brunch d’Elegance, 11am – 3pm.
Restaurant will be open through Saturday, June 7th.
June 7th Ritmo
June 11, Miss Capital City Send-Off Reception and Wardrobe Showing
June 14th The REO Town Custom Bike Show!
June 18th Tim Barron’s March of Dimes Thank You Party
June 20th Money Ball Comedy Jam
June 21st Moneyball
June 24th Virgilitaville! A Fundraiser for Mayor Virg Bernero
June 27th DeVille Banquet Hall, Michigan Pride Comedy Show
June 27th Sista Otis and the Wholly Rollers, Dining Room Stage
June 28 Elvis, (Ryan Pelton, Award Winning Elvis look/sound alike!)
Please see website for details!
http://www.thecadillacclub.com
With the exciting events of June, The Cadillac Club will make it’s morph into a Banquet/Event Center for the summer, now with the entire facility available for Special Events. The Cadillac Club is taking bookings for events of 50 persons or more.
Call 517 853-1912 Also The Cadillac Club is booking “Spirit Music” entertainment for the upcoming Summer Sunday Brunch Entertainment, call 517-853-1912 to inquire.
I just read on MIRS News (I’m not going to link or copy their text here because it is a registration site) that there is a deal in the works for the smoking ban. Sen. Bishop has said he will consider exempting the Detroit casinos and he will NOT sit on the bill. He expects a vote after his caucus figures out what they want to do.
How bad do you want fresh eggs? In Ann Arbor, you’ll be able to actually keep chickens in your backyard. No roosters. Just hens. I know most of you city folk are scratching your head right now wondering how you can get eggs without roosters. Unlike mammals, eggs are fertilized AFTER the hen lays them, so no rooster is necessary to actually lay the eggs. Rooster’s are not necessary to produce the egg. They are necessary to produce a fertilized egg. The eggs you buy at the store are usually unfertilized eggs. The only place you would ever get fertizlized eggs would be a farm.
I don’t know if this is a good idea or not. The ordinance will not allow the slaughter of the chicken and there’s no way for your chickens to reproduce so it would be a challenge to actually save money by raising chickens. Most likely, you’re going to end up losing money.
Still, there are those in Ann Arbor who are excited.
“I’d like my children to understand where food comes from. This is Ann Arbor, we’re different and we like it. We have dairies that deliver and community gardens. I’d would love to have this local food connection,” said Jennifer Hall.
Other comments during the public hearing that preceded the vote focused on the value of locally grown food and compatibility of backyard chickens with broader ideas about environmental sustainability.
Take your kids to a farm then. I just can’t see why anyone would want to raise chickens in an urban environment. Yes, the fresh eggs would be nice, but you’ll never be able to afford enough chickens to meet your demand.
If you’re gonna buy a cup of coffee tomorrow (Wednesday, June 4), it may as well go towards a good cause.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008, is a special day for Tim Hortons store owners, staff and customers. It’s Camp Day – the one day a year when every penny raised from coffee sales at participating Tim Hortons stores across Canada and the United States, will be donated to the Tim Horton Children’s Foundation.
What One Cup of Coffee Can Do
Every time a customer buys a coffee at Tim Hortons on Camp Day they will help send over 13,000 kids – who could otherwise not afford it – on the camping adventure of a lifetime. All children who attend the Foundation’s camp sessions are selected from within the communities where Tim Hortons stores are located. Tim Hortons store owners work closely with local youth organizations and schools to select appropriate children, between the ages of nine and 12, to attend a 10 day summer camp session or seven day winter camp session.
“Each year we are overwhelmed with the outpouring of support that we receive from our loyal customers and special guests on Camp Day,” says Bill Moir, President, Tim Horton Children’s Foundation. “Our customers like the fact that all they need to do to help deserving children is buy a cup of coffee. It’s what they already do every day – yet on Camp Day so many go above and beyond to show their support.”
HB 5074 has been transmitted to the Senate and today, it was referred to the Committee on Government Operations and Reform which is the same committee HB 4163 was referred to when it was sent to the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop discharged HB 4163 from committee for a vote on the floor. At that time, the Senate ammended the bill to get rid of all exemptions. At the time, Senator Bishop said he did not favor a smoking ban, but let the bill be called because that’s what the people wanted. After passing the Senate, the House sat on the bill for a few days before calling a different bill, HB 5074 and using it as a vehicle bill. They amended HB 5074 which was bill written to ban smoking in college dorms. They struck all of that language and inserted the original language of HB 4163. HB 5074 passed and was sent to the Senate.
How futile is this? It took the Senate FIVE months to call HB 4163 then they changed it. There’s only four weeks left in this session. Does the House really think Sen. Bishop will allow another vote on the same bill they’ve already amended? Currently, HB 4163 sits in the house. They can still call this bill before the session ends and pass it without the exemptions. HB 5074 sits in committee and will probably die there. The Committee on Government Operations and Reform hasn’t met since November, so there won’t even be a committee vote on the issue.
The Detroit News ran a story this morning ont the debate. There was one part in particular I had a problem with.
After Ohio voters approved a ban in 2006, bars in Toledo were hammered and many patrons flocked to bars just across the state line such as M.T. Loonies in southern Monroe County. Sales rose 20 percent to 30 percent and the crush of smokers prompted general manager Craig Herbster, 26, to hire six more workers.
What about Cleveland? What about Cincinatti? What about Columbus? The paper chose to pick one metro area close to a state that doesn’t ban smoking. I’m not denying that people are doing that, but let’s look at Michigan’s case. Obviously, people are not going to flock to Ohio to smoke because they can’t. They can’t run to Canada. There will be a small stretch near the Indiana border and a small stretch of the UP along the Wisconsin border that will have to deal with this for a little while. Michigan is in a unique situation that the borders of non-smoking states are relatively small. There might be a tiny percentage of business leaving Michigan so they can smoke in a bar, but a percentage so small no one will even notice.
Want to eat local, but don’t know how? I was looking through Runs With Spatula and found this link that she posted a couple months ago. The site is called Lansing Area Localvores and they give lists of where to find local grown or produced products. Most of the products can be found at the East Lansing Co-Op, but there are other places you’ll need to go. They encourage people to only eat food grown, raised, and produced within 100 miles of Lansing. The website hasn’t been updated since late last year, but the list of businesses who stock local food should be pretty close to accurate.
City Limits was a recommendation from an avid reader and one of my girlfriend’s interns. We were sitting around after spending all day being a tourist in our own town debating about what to do for dinner. I didn’t really feel like cooking, so we decided to go out. We hopped in my truck and headed down Cedar Street to Mason. City Limits sits just on the other side of 127 inside the Mason Bowling Center. The parking lot looked pretty full when we pulled up. Then it hit me. Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals had just started.
We went inside and there was a hostess station at the door, but no one was there. We didn’t know if we should wait or just sit down. Finally a waitress noticed us and told us to sit wherever we would like. The dining area is divided into a smoking and non-smoking space. The non-smoking is down a couple stairs into a big, open room filled with tables, dart boards, and, of course, big screen TV’s. We chose a booth along the wall near one of the huge projection TV’s. I wasn’t super interested in watching the game, but that didn’t matter. You can’t look up without seeing a TV somewhere.
It must have just been our luck that particular day. Everyplace we ate we had a wait. It took five to ten minutes before our waitress finally noticed us sitting there. Once she did, she brought menus and got drink orders. Saturday night is a margarita special, so my girlfriend got a strawberry margarita. I wasn’t in the mood for alcohol so I just got a Pepsi. The menu was full of the traditional sports bar fare. There were burgers, pizza, salads, and chicken sandwiches on the menu, but the interesting thing was the grinders.
When I lived near Kankakee, IL, we always used to go to a pizza place called Mancino’s Pizza & Grinders (I’m still trying to figure out if the Mancino’s here in Lansing are the same thing), so we had Grinders all the time growing up. My girlfriend had never heard the term before and was a little surprised when I got my sandwich. I went with the half pizza grinder. The seven inch sandwich was topped with pepperoni, ham, banana peppers (according to the menu anyway. I didn’t taste or see them on the sandwich), mozzerella cheese and pizza sauce. It’s like a little mini-pizza in sandwich form. It was delicious. I almost wish I got the full sandwich because when I was done, I wanted to keep eating. It’s not quite the same as Mancino’s, but this one had a unique flavor with the ham. For an extra buck, I added fries to my sandwich. They were just typical fries…nothing special.
My girlfriend got the Southern Fried Chicken Salad with Buffalo Chicken tenders. Again, they have the option of a half or full salad. She asked the waitress what the size of the half was, but didn’t get a really good answer, so she ordered the full salad just to be safe. The salad came with a bed of fresh lettuce, jack cheddar cheese, tomatoes, red onions, bacon and buffalo chicken tenders. The chicken was hot and there was a lot of it. Almost enough to make that a meal on it’s own. She passed a few pieces of the chicken over to me and it really tasted like a boneless chicken wing. She said the chicken was as hot as she likes buffalo wings and any hotter would have ruined the salad. Her only complaint was the red onions. They were stronger than she likes, but that’s a personal preference when it comes to onions. Neither of us are big onion fans and there’s always the hope they won’t overpower the other ingredients. With all the chicken, she probably finished about half the salad.
City Limits is a great space. Yes, it’s a sports bar, but the design allows it to be a family friendly atmosphere as well. The table next to us was a family with four kids. They had a couple pizzas and all eyes were glued to the TV’s. My girlfriend said her eyes got really dry from the smoke, but I didn’t notice it until we were leaving. I think someone opened the door to the bowling alley a little too long and a huge cloud of smoke rolled in, but she said it was there the whole time. We both LOVED the food. My sandwich was delicious and something you can’t get at a lot of places. We both left stuffed and only paid around $20. Even with the crowd for the Red Wings game, our server was there when we needed her after the initial wait.
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