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Sharing The Good
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Petoskey Strong is more than just a saying, it is a mindset of our community.
Very early during the COVID-19 crisis, we documented those businesses that were finding unique ways to give back to the community. The trend continued to grow for months on end as we worked to our Resilient Recovery. We hope this inspires more great ideas for supporting local businesses and creating a thriving community for generations to come!
Share it! #PetoskeyStrong
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Lunch For USPS and UPS Workers
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A wonderful example of seeking out ways to make an impact, we talk with Shaun Michael Osborne of OsborneKlein about how they engaged another local business owner, Sarah McDonnell of Parkside Deli Petoskey, to buy and deliver lunches to local USPS and UPS workers.
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Stay Strong. Stay Safe. Stay Positive
There are many examples of businesses and individuals helping others during this time. We wanted to share these positive stories with the community. Consider it the chamber sending some sunshine your way to brighten your day. If you know of additional examples, please email lisa@petoskeychamber.com so we can help get the word out.
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Jarvis Property Restoration provided Free personal vehicle disinfection for First Responders, Medical & Essential workers at the Maclaren Medical Office Building, 560 W. Mitchell Street location on Friday, May 15. They are planning to provide this service again in the near future. Look for an update. www.jarvisconstruction.com Tel. (231) 753-2727."Encore Financial Group is here to help. It's times like these, we see the greatest giving and compassion, and it makes us love our little communities even more than we already do. Remember to nominate a local 501(c)(3) organization by completing all information. One nominee will receive $1,000. Nominations are accepted all year and distributed every quarter. https://encorefinancialgroup.net/nominate/OsborneKlein purchased lunch for ALL Petoskey USPO and UPS employees last week, that is 120 lunches from Parkside Deli! Thank you to all essential and frontline workers! Big thanks to Emerson Meyer (Waffle Cabin Boyne Mountain/Waffle Cabin Wagon) Kelly Ross (Gardenscapes) Hanna Lonchar, Matt Trumble, Jeff Neill for all your help! So grateful to be part of community that supports each other’s small businesses!#goodneighborbbq – Thanks to Joseph Lucier and Delroy Ricketts who are Good Neighbor’s Barbecue, who served 125 meals on Mother’s Day and 170 meals last Sunday. They will be serving free meals for local friends and families on Sunday’s at Summit Street in Alanson until our State opens back up. Please don’t get out of your vehicles, just drive by and we’ll hand deliver it to your car. We’ll be serving 100 boxes of some of the best food you’ve ever had. First come, first serve starting Sunday at 2 p.m.Christ Child Society donated $4700 in grocery gift cards to Alanson, Harbor Springs, Pellston, Wolverine and Petoskey Schools. They made and donated 200 facemasks to the Women’s Resource Center and McLaren Hiland Cottage Hospice House. In March they donated $5000 in grocery gift cards and $10 of books to the schools.Encore Financial Group is here to help. It's times like these, we see the greatest giving and compassion, and it makes us love our little communities even more than we already do. Remember to nominate a local 501(c)(3) organization by completing all information. One nominee will receive $1,000. Nominations are accepted all year and distributed every quarter. https://encorefinancialgroup.net/nominate/OsborneKlein purchased lunch for ALL Petoskey USPO and UPS employees last week, that is 120 lunches from Parkside Deli! Thank you to all essential and frontline workers! Big thanks to Emerson Meyer (Waffle Cabin Boyne Mountain/Waffle Cabin Wagon) Kelly Ross (Gardenscapes) Hanna Lonchar, Matt Trumble, Jeff Neill for all your help! So grateful to be part of community that supports each other’s small businesses!#goodneighborbq – Thanks to Joseph Lucier and Delroy Ricketts who are Good Neighbor’s Barbecue, who served 125 meals on Mother’s Day. They will be serving free meals for local friends and families on Sunday’s at Summit Street in Alanson until our State opens back up. Please don’t get out of your vehicles, just drive by and we’ll hand deliver it to your car. We’ll be serving 100 boxes of some of the best food you’ve ever had. First come, first serve starting Sunday at 2 p.m.Petoskey Plastics has donated 18,800 protective gowns to regional healthcare workers and shipped 2.6 million protective gowns to 13 Michigan hospitals since mid-March.The Public Schools of Petoskey, Food Service, will continue meal service through June 11th. FREE for anyone 18 and younger no matter what school district you attend. Please stop by one of our locations to pick up your Free meals. You can use this service in conjunction with any other method of help you are receiving.
- Petoskey High School: 10:30 a.m to 1:00 p.m
- Bayshore Estates: 11 a.m to 1 p.m
- Conway Commons: 11 a.m to 1 p.m
- Lowe’s Parking Lot: 11 a.m to 1 p.m Walloon Lake Community Church: 11 a.m to 1 p.m Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
First Presbyterian Church of Petoskey, alongside Cross of Christ and Emmanuel Episcopal are continuing to provide free community meals. Thursdays: 12 -12:45 p.m., Pick up at Petoskey Church of Christ, 308 Monroe St Sundays: 12 -12:45 p.m., Pick up at First Presbyterian Church of Petoskey, 501 E Mitchell St. Use the door that faces Division Street, across from CTAC entrance.Christ Child Society of Northern Michigan has a diaper pantry for those in need. We are opening extend days. For the month of April we are open every Thursday from 9:30-11:00 a.m. Sizes range from 1-5. We are providing a one-week supply per child. This program is located at the Manna Food Project building in Harbor Springs, 8791 McBride Park Harbor Spring. Manna has been an important part of this program. Learn more at https://christchildsocietynorthernmichigan.com/Dutch Oven Bakery is holding a fundraiser for the Pellston Area Food Pantry, Randy Bricker. They are struggling to get food the community desperately needs. In particular, bread. Please help us raise as much as we can for those that need it most. We generated a list of items that we have available that the pantry needs most. The fundraiser will work like this: Order anything from the list below that you would like to donate. We will get these items to the pantry. In addition, we will make a 25% cash donation match of your food donation. If you would prefer to donate cash you can as well. We will apply that cash to whatever items the pantry needs most. Thank you for helping support the community. Let's see how much good we can do. You can see the list of items on their facebook page here.The Salvation Army’s Current Services Available- Financial and Utility Assistance via phone appointment ,Please call 231-347-3531 then press 1, for utility assistance or press 2 for all other types of financial assistance and leave a message for the case-worker to call you to schedule a phone appointment.
- Pantry Curbside Pick-up via phone appointment, If you need food please call 231-347-3531, then press 0 to leave a message for the case-worker to call you to schedule a curb-side pick-up appointment. During this crisis we are allowing each household 1 additional food order each month (2 total). We are not accepting any walk-ins until the suggested restrictions have been lifted.
- Friday night carry-out dinners, Our regular Friday Night Live Community Dinner will not be held until further notice; however, in the meantime, for the many hungry people that come regularly we will have a carry-out Dinners on Fridays at 6pm at our Community Center Office.
- Meal Deliveries for Seniors and Mobility Impaired- Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, We will also be delivering warm dinners on Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday evenings at 6 p.m to local elders and mobility impaired disabled individuals. please call 231-347-3531, then press 0 to leave a message to sign up and someone will return your call as soon as possible. If you age 60 or over or are a home-bound disabled adult who is in need of delivery assistance for groceries or prescription medication (non-narcotic) please call 231-347-3531 and then press 0 to leave a message for the receptionist and we will return your call as soon as possible.
Donated to Mclaren- A big thank you to Grandpa Shorters and their customers for donating 214 gift cards to McLaren Northern Michigan nurses. We are so grateful!
- Donors to the McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation are so creative! We want to give a special thank you to Dr. Howard Beck and Dr. Margaret Brazones whose generosity launched a food basket program this week, and also to Mr. Louis Kasischke for his generous support. Our staff throughout the hospital is grateful for the snacks and drinks available to them in their break rooms day and night. Thank you!
- Petoskey Plastics has donated 18,800 donated gowns.
- Petoskey Sunrise Rotary Lending a Helping hand. They ordered 100 meals from Beards Brewery to serve frontline workers at McLaren NM Hospital. The lunch and dinner deliveries will feed staff in Level 2 inpatient, ICU, and OB/Pediatrics. Club member Randy Evans delivered $25 Beard's gift cards to the dedicated employees at The Manna Food Project who work so hard to make sure no one in our community goes hungry.
- A special thank you to Dino Marra from the John E. Green Co. for providing lunch boxes to our EVS, Maintenance, and Laundry teams!! We are so appreciative!
- Thank you to Northern Michigan Sports Medicine Center - Indian River for their donation of gloves to help keep our hospital workers safe. This donation makes a difference to colleagues and patients alike. Thank you!
- When there was a shortage of hand sanitizer, Sherwin Williams of Petoskey came through for us. We are so appreciative!
- A big shout out to the Inn at Bay Harbor, Autograph Collection for their generous donation of gloves, masks, and protective gear to help keep our health care workers and staff safe.
- Tim Bondy Physical Therapy was gracious enough to donate hundreds of vinyl exam gloves to the Foundation to help keep our staff healthy and safe. Thank you, we are so appreciative of all of the support and donations.
If you know of additional examples, please email lisa@petoskeychamber.com so we can help get the word out.