Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Rene Bibaud, five-time world jump rope champion and a former member of the Cirque du Soleil performance troupe, gives a motivational presentation on fitness to students Tuesday at Norris Elementary School. For more on the program, read Jeff Peek's column, "Bibaud 'ropes' kids into having fun exercising."

Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
The fall grape harvest at Chateau Grand Traverse Winery and Vineyard is complete so employees remove nets that protect the rows of grapevines from birds. "We have more than 50,000 feet of the netting to remove," said Sean O’Keefe, the vineyard manager. The vineyard has tried different forms of bird deterrents over the years but O’Keefe said, "the netting works best."

Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Chris Murphy, a taxi cab driver with T.C. Cab, receives cab fare from "Erika" of Cadillac late Tuesday night. Murphy began his shift at 5 p.m. and, like most drivers, will end his day 12 hours later. For more photos from a night in the life of TC cab driver, see today's Photo Essay.

Record-Eagle/Greg Undeen
Color dots the trees on Cedar Run Road as peak foliage approaches the Grand Traverse region.

Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Robert Pope, secretary-treasurer of the Masonic Temple in Bellaire, grimaces as an excavator tears down the front facade of the building after it was destroyed by fire late Thursday night.

Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Clinch Park Zoo staff member Tracy Mikowski, center, alongside Grand Traverse County animal control officers and city police load a large deer into a truck Thursday afternoon in Traverse City. The buck wandered into a residential unit at the newly constructed Bay Park Condominiums at Hope and East State streets and had to be sedated before it could be removed.

Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Joe Bartlett, an employee of Siler’s Lawn Maintenance of Traverse City, blows leaves along 16th Street near the old state hospital grounds. "It really looks beautiful now," Bartlett said. "In another week or so they will all be down and it will be a big job getting them cleaned up."

Record-Eagle/Greg Undeen
Keweenaw County resident Mike Powers spends a rainy Monday afternoon reading a local periodical in the Traverse Area District Library on Woodmere Avenue. Today’s forecast called for showers returning to the region by evening.

Record-Eagle/Greg Undeen
Jerry Temple, left, and John Logiudice celebrate netting a 15-pound chinook salmon below the Homestead fish ladder on the Betsie River. For more on the story and a link to the photo essay, see Salmon run; Anglers try their luck."

Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Hundreds of participants in the American Cancer Society fourth annual Breast Cancer Walk travel through downtown Traverse City Saturday morning. Participants gathered at Hannah Park to recognize survivors of breast cancer, which strikes more than 200,000 women each year and claims 40,000 lives.

Record-Eagle/Greg Undeen
Jeff Grant notches a 10-by-10 oak beam salvaged from a 150-year-old barn in central Illinois. The entire barn, including the stone foundation, is being reconstructed on Northport Point off Leelanau County Road 640 for residential use. The barn was built in the 1850s by German migrants and is being reconstructed by White Oak Timber Frames of Suttons Bay.

Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Carol Waters looks at wool she and others in the Magic Circle Weaving Collective have dyed using plants to make dyes. One of the workshops at the bioneers conference will focus on natural dyes. For more on the event, read Nature main focus of Great Lakes Bioneers conference."

Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Danielle Liechti, 14, looks over pumpkins at Bill and Monica Hoffman’s Pumpkin Patch on Old Mission Peninsula near Traverse City. Ideal fall weather drew the pumpkin hunters to area farm stands and fields over the weekend.

Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Anne-Marie Awrey of Traverse City ended up on a Zicam commercial after using the cold medication and writing to the company to tell them it worked. For more on the story, read "Traverse City woman writes fan mail, gets cast in commercial."

Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Retired school teacher Victoria Gallup is living her dream by owning Good Harbor Gallery, a pottery studio near Glen Arbor. Here, she's pictured with pottery that is ready to be glazed and fired. For more on her story, read "Pottery studio makes for perfect retirement" and view the PDF version for more photos.

Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
Principal Jessica Ziecina at Kalkaska’s Birch Street Elementary School works with Andrew Woodruff, 8, and Natalia Chela, 5, using some Reading First program materials. For more information, read "Kalkaska schools receive $1 million grant."

Record-Eagle/Greg Undeen
Rachel Ritter, 7, races along the Boardman River in Hannah Park. "Cold weather makes me run faster," Ritter said. Cooler weather moved in Thursday, bringing the first cold snap this fall.

Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Seven-year-old Reagan Cotton holds his breath while floating on his back in East Bay Wednesday afternoon at Traverse City State Park. Cotton enjoyed the unseasonably warm weather with his mom and two siblings as temperatures reached the mid-80s Wednesday. Expect dramatically different temperatures today with highs in the 50s. For more on the unusual temps and the coming cold, read "Warm spell extends summer."

Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Owosso resident Henriatta Gonzales feeds an aggressive seagull at Traverse City State Park. Gonzales, who is vacationing in Traverse City with her husband, has fed the seagulls about four loaves of bread over the past week. "They know me already," Gonzales said. "When they see my car they come flying."

Record-Eagle/Greg Undeen
Shonda Schramm, 15, center, sorts through donations with other volunteers from Kingsley High School set up for today’s garage sale to benefit the hurricane relief effort. Schramm is a member of the Volunteers Club and came up with the idea to have the sale. For more on the story, read "Kingsley garage sale benefits hurricane victims."