inspired living is excited to announce the opening of their new balanced living yoga and fusion studio. The studio opened Sept. 9, 2013 and offers daily yoga and meditation classes. Owner Leslie Neilson, who also owns the inspired living store in Boyne City, hopes to add other classes such as pilates, Tai Chi and whatever community feedback indicates. balanced living is located at 101 River St., the front section of the Huntington Bank building. The studio is a long time dream of co-owner Leslie Neilson, who has been working on it for 5+ years, sharing her vision with anyone who would listen to her. Neilson explains: "The mission of balanced living is to provide a place where not only yoga, but other modalities based on mind, body and spirit can be practiced. The goal of the studio is to support the health and well-being of our local community with affordable classes taught by qualified teachers, and to further support our local community with regular fundraising events for charitable causes. We also aim to provide a place for all religions, races and ages, a sacred space in which practitioners may practice and share their unique talents and healing arts."> For information on classes and pricing, like them on Facebook at balanced living. Passes and class schedules are available and can be purchased at inspired living. Petoskey News-Review story.
For the first time in several years, Boyne City has its bowling alley back. BC Lanes "soft opened" for men's league play Wednesday and open bowling Thursday, exactly one year after Chris and Sandy Nelson purchased the business. The Nelsons' daughter, Shantel Erber, is the general manager of BC Lanes, which opens its 16 lanes at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at 10 a.m. on weekends. They are nearly finished with a top-to-bottom, inside-and-outside refurbishing of the 18,000-sq.-ft. bowling alley. Chris Nelson commented: "It feels good to have it open, but it's no time to relax. We still have some work to do, and our goal is to have a lot of satisfied customers." Satisfying customers is in the owners' DNA, though - they have owned BC Pizza for 25 years, starting in Boyne City and growing to more than 30 locations today. Having BC Pizza next door to BC Lanes is working out well already, since the kitchen at the bowling alley is still being finished. For now the restaurant provides pizza, pasta, sandwiches and salads from next door. Wings, burgers and fries will be added when the BC Lanes kitchen opens, hopefully by the end of October. The bar is open and functioning and will soon have a dozen televisions showing all kinds of sports events, including occasional pay-per-view events. BC Lanes is located at 1199 South M75, Boyne City. The new phone number is 231-582-6353.
