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Are you looking for a simple and delightful dessert to impress your guests? Look no further than this cherry trifle recipe featuring Cherry Republic's Mamma Mary's Cherry Pie Filling and Cherry Fudge Sauce. 

Backpacking in Lake Superior Provincial Park is the most otherworldly place from the Sleeping Bear Dunes. It is rough, remote and ROCKY. Just perfect for a small group of sandlubbers looking for some wild adventure.

We received an overwhelming response to our summer story request. We sifted through a ton of stories and it was tough, but we forced ourselves to narrow it down to two. Below the stories you can find some runner-up images. Enjoy!

Here are some pictures from our annual Cherry Stomp event in Glen Arbor. Afterwards, we held a campfire with some stories and games!

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Cherry Boomchunkas are my first food product. It all began 22 years ago in a search for expanding my business. I had been selling Cherry Republic t-shirts, but was frustrated because tees were only purchased in the summer—I was looking for something to sell year round.. People eat food year round. I decided on a cookie using our local fruit and taking advantage of a newer invention—dried cherries. I wanted a fun cookie with a fun name. That was the easy part—in a flash Cherry Boomchunkas with oats, cherries and white chocolate were invented. Here is me with a few of my staff in my first kitchen.

A speaker at a TEDx event in Traverse City said that the average child from his African homeland walked to school 10 miles. After I heard this fact, I couldn't help but think of Steph and I walking to school with our two young boys. Colebrook, a kindergartener and Hawthorn, a preschooler. A couple weeks later, I woke my family up at 5:30 am and out the door we headed the 7 and 1/2 miles to Glen Lake Community Schools.