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THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING TO DO IN OUR AREA!

2010-08-25T19:33:00Z

August 29th, 2010

Come Celebrate Mac Woods' 80th year!

9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Location: Silver Lake

Join us for an event celebrating Mac Wood's 80th year in business! From 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., you can enjoy a 30 minute dune ride for just $8! Refreshments, remembering, and great fun await you!

Contact Information:
Mac Woods Dune Rides

Phone: 231-873-2817

August 31st, 2010

Country Cruisin' Antique Car Show

Time: around 9am

Location: Lewis Farm Market & Petting Farm

Website: www.LewisFarmMarket.com

Antique cars putt in and out on as they stop for coffee on thier way to their destination, so come by early so you don't miss out! The cars are part of the Great Lakes Region of VMCCA. Memories of rumble seats and days gone by are sure to make you smile! We're located on M-20, just 1/4 mile east of US31 (exit 140).

Contact Information:
Char

E-Mail: char@lewisfarmmarket.com

Phone: 231-861-5730

August 31st, 2010

Country Cruisin' Antique Car Show

Time: around 9am

Location: Lewis Farm Market & Petting Farm

Website: www.LewisFarmMarket.com

Contact Information:
Char

E-Mail: char@lewisfarmmarket.com

Phone: 231-861-5730

September 1st - October 31st, 2010

*** Cancer Awareness Corn Maze

9am to 6pm

Location: Lewis Farm Market & Petting Farm

Website: http://www.LewisFarmMarket.com

Our Corn Maze opens early in September & this year's theme is *** Cancer Awareness. Join us at the Farm, located on M20 just 1/4 mile east of US31 (exit 140) for a day of fun & memories! We're donating $1 for every armband or corn maze ticket purchased in Sep & Oct when you bring in the coupon from our website (limit 1 person per coupon). See website for details & updates.

Contact Information:
Char

E-Mail: char@lewisfarmmarket.com

Phone: 231/861-5730

September 4th - 5th, 2010

15th Annual "Honoring Our Elders" Traditional PowWow

Location: Hart Fairgrounds

A traditional Native American Festival with traders, dancers, food.

Phone: 231-873-2247

September 4th - 5th, 2010

Hart Heritage Days

Location: Hart Historic District

Enjoy the weekend activities in the Historic District where buildings from the past have been moved and restored for all to view. Food, Fun, and Festivities! 231-873-2488

Phone: 231-873-2488

September 6th, 2010

3rd Annual Hart Labor Day Bridge Walk

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Location: Downtown Hart

Sponsored by the Hart Rotary Club and the Silver Lake Sand Dunes Area Chamber of Commerce, our very own "Bridge Walk" begins at the Hart Historic District, September 6, at 9:00 a.m. Bring the family! Join the fun!

Contact Information:
Silver Lake Sand Dunes Area Chamber of Commerce

Phone: 231-873-2247

September 10th - 11th, 2010

Silver Lake Sand Dunes Apple & BBQ Cook-Off Festival

Location: Silver Lake Sand Dunes

2010 Apple & BBQ Cook-Off Festival will be held on September 10 - 11, 2010.

An annual Festival held at the Silver Lake Sand Dunes that is located along the Lake Michigan Shoreline between Muskegon and Ludington, Michigan.

The Festival features the Kansas City Barbeque Society's State santioned Cook-Off providing an exciting and competitive environment for professional & amateur barbequers alike a chance to win trophies, money and best of all, the Bragging Rights for one year.

Click here for complete details of the2010 Apple & BBQ Cook-Off Festival.

The Festival also includes the Top 40 Auto & Truck Show, Crafters, Military Vehicle Show, children activities and much, much more!

September 12th, 2010

MSBA Mt Baldy Hillclimb

Time: 10 AM

Location: Silver Lake State Park

Website: www.michigansportbuggy.homestead.com

100 ft of UPHILL racing! Buggies, Trucks, & Quads, ALL racing for FAST TIME OF THE DAY!-Give Mt. Baldy your best shot, or come cheer on your favorite driver.
Tech In- Sept 11- Voucher Center 10-4
Sept 12- Sand Flies at 10!

Contact Information:
Dwayne/Mary

E-Mail: michigansportbuggy@yahoo.com

Phone: 734-422-3537 or 734-513-5393

September 18th, 2010

Vintage Rose 3rd Annual 2 person Golf Scramble

2:00 p.m. to Dark

Location: Golden Sands Golf Course 2501 N. Wilson Rd Mears,

Website: www.goldensands@huges.net

3rd Annual Vintage Rose Resale Shoppe 2 Person Golf Scramble. At Golden Sands Golf Course in Silver Lake. FOOD-FUN-PRIZES. All You Can Eat. Everyone Recieves a prize. 9 Holes With a Cart $40.00 Per Person. All Proceeds Go For Our Youth Programs and Outreach. To Sign Up, Sponsor, Or Any Additional Information Please Call 231-873-4909 Or Vintage Rose At 231-873-7177
In collaboration with Choices West Counseling Services.

Contact Information:
Bruce, Barb or Alicia

E-Mail: choiceswest@hotmail.com

Phone: 231-873-7177 or 231-873-4909

September 18th, 2010

Cancer Free Day

9am to 6pm

Location: Lewis Farm Market & Petting Farm

Website: www.LewisFarmMarket.com

Cancer Free Day-because we're all working for the day when cancer doesn't exist. Cancer Survivors bring the coupon from our website & receive a free armband (Sep 18th only)for the day's activities. Country music by Ashley Youngstrom (2-4pm). See our website for details & updates.

Contact Information:
Char

E-Mail: char@lewisfarmmarket.com

Phone: 231-861-5730

September 19th, 2010

Pie Eating & Maze Challenge

Time: 2:00pm

Location: Lewis Farm Market

Website: www.lewisfarmmarket.com

Our once-a-year high school "Pie Eating & Corn Maze Challenge" brings together area basketball teams to annually compete for bragging rights to who can do more & who can do it faster! This year's event 'pits' last year's winners against more schools than ever. Join us...where Fruit, Fun & Memories are Grown...at Lewis Farm Market in New Era.

Contact Information:
Char

E-Mail: info@lewisfarmmarket.com

Phone: 231/861-5730

September 19th, 2010

High School Challenge

Time: about 2pm

Location: Lewis Farm Market & Petting Farm

Website: www.LewisFarmMarket.com

Our annual Pie Eating & Maze Race competition "Pits" area schools against each other to see who can eat the most pie and manuever the corn maze the fastest. Some area school bands will be there to encourage their teams to MOVE FASTER! Located on M20 just 1/4 mile east of US31 (exit 140). Visit us on Facebook & see our website for updates and details.

Contact Information:
Char

E-Mail: Char@lewisfarmmarket.com

Phone: 231-861-5730

October 2nd, 2010

Cedar Creek Cloggers

12 noon to about 2pm

Location: Lewis Farm Market & Petting Farm

Website: www.LewisFarmMarket.com

Two free performances by the Cedar Creek Cloggers, with the first starting at noon, will be featured at the Farm today. We're located on M20, just 1/4 mile east of US 31 (exit 140). Visit our FaceBook page. Details & updates on our website.

Contact Information:
Char

E-Mail: Char@lewisfarmmarket.com

Phone: 231-861-5730

White House to Adjust Troubled Mortgage-Modification Program

2010-03-30T13:59:00Z

The Obama administration took a series of steps recently to fortify its $75 billion effort to modify mortgages and plans to unveil more changes—including a push to reduce principals on difficult loans—to help struggling homeowners and cut down on foreclosures. In announcing the renewed effort, the administration acknowledged that the year-old program known as Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) hasn’t done enough. By the end of December, 2009, it had permanently lowered monthly payments for only about 170,000 borrowers out of the expected 3 million to 4 million it was aimed at covering through 2012. Even so, the program and separate efforts by banks and other lenders to rework overdue loans have pushed the rate of new foreclosures down 15.4% in the final three months last year, according to a recently released federal report. But the report also sounded alarms about a potential looming tide of foreclosures. The number of borrowers who were 90 days or more past due on their mortgage payments, a key measure of future defaults, swelled 20.4% in the last quarter over the previous quarter. Worse, the modifications, while delaying the foreclosure process, did not appear to be a long-term solution: About 52% of those with modified loans defaulted again after nine months, said the report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision, which cover about two-thirds of the outstanding home loans. The time bomb of delinquencies and repeat defaults has focused more attention on the administration’s Home Affordable Mortgage Program, which President Barack Obama launched with great fanfare more than a year ago. At a House hearing, frustrated Democrats and Republicans labeled the program a bust so far, echoing a stinging report this week by a government watchdog. “This program is a failure and a waste of taxpayer dollars,” said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C. Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, warned the Obama administration it needed to act quickly to fix the program. “I really do believe we can do a whole lot better than what we’re doing to keep people in their homes,” he said. Assistant Treasury Secretary Herbert M. Allison admitted that modifying mortgages has been more difficult than administration officials had anticipated. “Certainly we’ve seen a lot of frustration with this program since its inception,” he told lawmakers. “We did not fully envision the challenges we would encounter.” Among the changes to take effect June 1, 2010 is a prohibition on mortgage servicers from starting or continuing foreclosure proceedings on a borrower who enters the Home Affordable Modification Program. Companies servicing mortgages also must screen every borrower who has missed two or more payments to determine whether the borrower is eligible for the program. If so, the servicer “must pro-actively solicit those borrowers” to participate. Those companies also are required to make quicker decisions about eligibility and to process documents quickly. In addition, Allison said, the administration was preparing to move forward with an initiative to modify second mortgages after four of the largest mortgage servicers—Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.—agreed to participate. That initiative would be part of a greater administration push to have lenders reduce the amount of principal owed on delinquent loans, an action analysts said is a key to limiting foreclosures. Administration officials will announce greater incentives for servicers to write down mortgage principal as well as to allow jobless homeowners in the program to skip three months of payments, according to an industry executive who requested anonymity because the changes had not been made public. “Principal reduction is probably the last remaining significant vital step that needs to be taken in loan modifications in order to make those modifications stick,” said Stuart A. Gabriel, director of the Ziman Center for Real Estate at University of California-Los Angeles. Many analysts believe the problem of negative equity—about a quarter of U.S. homeowners with mortgages owe more than their homes are worth—will make it difficult for modifications to succeed, since even a slight economic setback could cause those borrowers to abandon their loans and homes. First American CoreLogic, a Santa Ana, Calif., real estate research firm, estimated that the typical homeowner who is under water won’t see home value rise above the loan amount at least until late 2015. In some extremely depressed markets, such as Las Vegas, Detroit and parts of Florida, it might take until 2020 or later for those borrowers to regain any ownership stake in their homes, the research firm said. Trying to address that issue, Bank of America said that it would offer to reduce $3 billion in principal over a five-year period for certain borrowers with adjustable-rate mortgages from Countrywide Financial Corp., the former No. 1 mortgage lender that Bank of America acquired in 2008. The bank said it hoped its effort would serve as a model for other mortgage servicing companies. Such efforts may be too little, too late, according to analysts at the financial research firm Institutional Risk Analytics in Torrance, Calif., who said the latest refinements of the government’s anti-foreclosure efforts show little prospect of success. “This is a ‘kick the can down the road’ action at best,” said Institutional Risk Chief Executive Dennis Santiago. “It defines a series of procedural hoops that need to be jumped prior to allowing foreclosure to complete. Yes, it will keep people in their homes longer. However, there remain no provisions for relief of the debt.” The Home Affordable Mortgage Program, which was launched last spring, got off to a slow start. By the end of February, just 168,708 mortgages had been permanently modified. Allison said more than 1-million three-month trial modifications have been started, but conversion to permanently reduced payments has been difficult amid complaints from homeowners about delays, lost paperwork and bureaucratic runarounds by lenders who process the modifications. (c) 2010, Los Angeles Times. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

Our Silver Lake Kiosk will be opening the end of May!

2010-03-29T15:50:00Z

You will be happy to know that we not only have a CBARE office in Hart and Pentwater, but starting the end of May, we will be at Silver Lake at the Kiosk near the south end of Dune Town. Also we will be there on select weekends prior to Memorial weekend so contact us or watch this site for upcoming dates. Tell your friends who may be coming to Silver Lake to ride the dunes, enjoy Lake Michigan or relax at their campsite that if they are looking for a place of their own in this area to come visit our Kiosk. Our knowledgeable agents will be there to assist your search and show you the property you’re interested in.

What a great opportunity to highlight your listing at the most desirable location in Silver Lake. Contact us to show you how!