Sadly — Saint Urho’s Celebration Postponed; to be Rescheduled
Dear Colorado Yoopers and friends, it is with regret that we are postponing the celebration of Saint Urho’s Day on March 19. The celebration will be rescheduled later in the year when the threat of illness from the corona virus has subsided.
What’s a Yooper?
Yoopers: “Those people who live in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan” ~ Wikipedia
Whether you hail from Marquette, Iron River, Iron Mountain, Escanaba, Houghton, Rock or even Drummond Island, you are by the ‘Grace of God’ a ‘Yooper’.
Annual Picnic
Join us for our 22nd Annual Colorado Yoopers Picnic on Sunday, September 27, 2020 at Pelican Point shelter at Bear Creek Lake Park, 15600 W. Morrison Rd, Lakewood, CO, 80465 (phone: 303-697-6159). Order your pasties today to collect from the picnic!
Meet Other Yoopers!
We hope you enjoy your website and continue to share it with other Yoopers you meet. This site will make it a little easier to stay in touch with each other, find out what’s going on and meet NEW Yoopers living here in Colorado. Join us on Facebook too (details at the bottom of page). Thanks for your support!
Those of us who have moved away from up der in da north probably only have plenty of fond memories of our years growing up there. Perhaps we remember those bitter cold winters complete with snow banks taller than cars or of being chased off of that favorite fishing stream by a cloud of ‘skeeters’ or deer flies. Maybe it was that winter, that was so cold, everybody’s plumbing froze up.
But we also hold on to other memories from the U.P. such as a little slower pace of life, our friends and families back there, that unique cuisine (pasties, smoked fish & squeaky cheese) we miss so much and the beauty of our lakes and woodlands (especially in the fall). We probably shouldn’t forget all those jokes and stories told around hunting camps either!
Those memories we hold so dear to us gives us the right to still call ourselves ‘Yoopers’. May we always be truly grateful of this.
