LEELANAU COUNTY — For 30 years, an entire community has been coming together to participate in this bridge walk, but can you believe that this bridge walk all started because of a bet?

Bill Thompson, who started the Glen Lake Bridge Walk tells us “But I said, I’m going to do a bridge walk next year. I’m going to have a bridge walk. And this guy Rusty, who is sitting there, he says, I tell you what, you do the you get the, brochures or the, the things made up. And I put them out and I did so then that I was sitting there and there and I remembered Labor Day. I said, oh God, I forgot So I went, I ran up the hill and there’s people. I thought, oh my God, this is ridiculous. So and that was the beginning of the bridge walk. ”

Since 1996, Glen Arbor and Empire have been part of the Annual Gle

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