– To the Traverse City Golf and Country Club’s members, who via their seasonal Eagles for Children fundraiser collected $126,250, which will be given away to 13 regional charities at a banquet on Wednesday. The total is $30,000 more this year than in 2023, said Teri Gorsline, a local Eagles for Children volunteer committee member. All the money goes to nonprofits dedicated to helping disadvantaged local youth.
Eagles for Children is a Michigan-based organization that counts more than 20 participating golf clubs across the state — including in Traverse City — and also in Wisconsin and North Carolina. It has donated more than $6 million to children’s charities since its start in 2012, according to the nonprofit’s website. Participants pledge a minimum of $2 for each time a fellow member scores an eagle on a hole at the club and, as of 2023, the group reports raising more than $1,100 per eagle.
An eagle is a score of two strokes below par on a given hole.
– To Traverse City Central High School’s Grace Cary, who recently announced her commitment to play Division I college softball for the Big Ten Conference’s Ohio State University. Cary is the third Big North Conference high school player to commit to a Power 5 — or major conference — university during the last several years, as reported by Record-Eagle Senior Sports Writer James Cook.
– To Branden Morgan, who retired this week after 27 years as sexton of Oakwood Cemetery in Traverse City. In that time, he’s performed a variety of caretaking tasks, from working a wheelbarrow, to landscaping and preparing sites for burial, and simply being there for those who are grieving, as stated in a Thursday Record-Eagle story by Staff Writer Kathryn Depauw, who covers Indigenous Affairs in partnership with Report for America….



Williams’ 1737 deed claimed land that was already home to the Mohicans. (Photo courtesy of Special Collections.)