News & Events

• What's happening at the Bottle House Museum (4/28/08)
  


• Small Town Development Initiative (1/8/07)
  The new happening in Kaleva continuing into 2007 is called Small Town Development Initiative. It began last fall as 26 MSU students came to Manistee County to visit and see the sights. Read more >>



• Epic Kaleva
  Epic Kaleva is the title of a six page story by Elizabeth Edwards in the March issue of the Traverse Magazine. It is a wonderful article about Kaleva past, present and future. The Kaleva Art Gallery has extra copies which can be ordered by contacting Cindy Asiala: email at caasiala@jackpine.com or telephone: 231.362.3480. Cost is $3.99 plus $1.00 shipping. Be sure to include address and check to Project Kaleva. (2/23/06)
  
  
• Update on construction of Kaleva Library (6/4/04)
  
  
• News-Kaleva Branch Library
  The new quarters for the Kaleva Branch of the Manistee County Library are looking good to open late next spring. (2004). The building will be “wintered in” so contractors and volunteers can work inside during the coming months. (11/13/03)
  
  
• Manisteee News Advocate Article (1/30/03)
  Like swampland real estate, River City Boys Bands and the Spice Girls, the town of Kaleva was born out of an ingenious marketing scheme. (2/6/03)
  
  
• New Kaleva Library
  We are contacting you to let you know about our fund raising efforts to build a new library in Kaleva, a joint effort of the Village of Kaleva, the Manistee County Library Board and our committee, the Kaleva Library Promoters. (1/13/03)
  
  
• Kaleva Community and Finnish Heritage Scholarship Fund Benefits Students and Donors: Fund Qualifies for the Michigan State Tax Credit
  The Kaleva Community and Finnish Heritage Scholarship Fund was started with in initial donation of $100,000 by Kaleva native Mel Fennell. The Fennell family established the Fund as a way of preserving the memory of early Kaleva Settlers and at the same time the supporting Kaleva graduates in their pursuit of a secondary education. More... (12/2/02)
  
  
• Kuka Kuoli
  If you are curious about Kaleva's first and second generation families, their birth dates, death dates, how they migrated to Kaleva, etc., read on. (2000)