Pets, toys blessed at Free Soil event featuring contests, activities

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Arielle Breen, Manistee News Advocate

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FREE SOIL — People brought their pets and even stuffed animals from as far away as Illinois to be blessed during a Free Soil event.

It was also appropriate that the theme of the Circle Rocking S Children’s Farm Blessing of the Animals event on Sunday was Noah’s Ark.

Rev. John Brown and Rev. John Hansen presided over the blessing service.

Dogs, cats, chickens, rabbits, turkeys and stuffed animals were blessed, according to a news release on the event.

The event also featured a pet show, games, silent auction, a pet and pet owner look-alike contest, pet talent contest, costume contests and other activities.

(From center left) Waylan Briggs, of Free Soil, won second place and Alec Omell, of Manistee, took first place in the Blessing of the Animals pie eating contest on Sunday.

(From center left) Waylan Briggs, of Free Soil, won second place and Alec Omell, of Manistee, took first place in the Blessing of the Animals pie eating contest on Sunday.

Submitted photo/Nancy Supran

I mainly grew up in Gladwin, but have moved around living in other states and even in Japan for a time. I attended Mid Michigan Community College and Central Michigan University where I studied journalism, cultural anthropology and Japanese language and culture. I have won a list of Michigan Press Association awards in categories like investigative enterprise reporting, as well as other journalistic awards such as the Inland Press Association Newsroom Contest award for my contextual coverage of Great Lakes drownings, and was a top-20 winner of the Hearst Radio Competition’s collegiate category. Prior to the News Advocate, I was the editor in chief and a reporter for the Gaylord Herald Times, a reporter for CMU Public Radio, a reporter for CM-Life newspaper and the Laker Current.

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