Lake Superior benefit concert will be dramatic as today’s severe storms over the big lake

Around 5:30 this morning (July 8, 2007) a series of severe thunderstorms rolled across Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with vivid lightening and later hail. This is natural sound from the storm, followed by slow motion. Then some even slower motion and photos of lightening with natural sound of the thunder. Finally a brief hail storm dropped pea-sized ice about 7:15 a.m. It was the third hail storm in Marquette County since a six-day blizzard during the first week of April 2007 dumped 5 feet of snow across northern Michigan. Protecting Lake Superior is the goal of a free benefit concert on Sunday July 15 that promises to be as dramatic as today's storm. Midwest classical musicians have just formed the Boreal Chamber Symphony to protect Lake Superior. The Boreal orchestra will makes its debut in Marquette on July 15 (international Lake Superior Day) using sand, rocks, driftwood, water from the big lake to make music. Donations go to Lake Superior Defense Fund and will be used to continue ongoing projects that protect the largest and deepest of the Great lakes. The concert is sponsored by the Superior Watershed Partnership and the Cedar Tree Institute, Marquette non-profits that founded the interfaith Earth Keeper Initiative in 2004. The Earth Keepers have recycled or properly disposed of over 370 tons of household poisons on past three Earth Day weekends. For more information contact the concert co-sponsors: Carl Lindquist, 228-6095; Rev. Jon Magnuson, 228-5494; or Greg Peterson at 906-475-5068

Blip | July 8, 2007

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