World of One Expo 2008 “A Journey for a Healthy Body, Mind, & Soul” Saturday, June 28th 10:00am – 9:00pm Sunday, June 29th 10:00am – 7:00pm Birch Run Expo Center Ms. Margo- “the Bone Reader” has for this year dedicated the 2nd Annual World of One Expo to the Feather link Tea Women of Unity; a Breast Cancer Awareness organization for the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe for the Nimkee Clinic Womens Wellness Center. This much needed organization has lost funding and is surviving on the generosity of those who are able to contribute through monetary gifts, volunteering, and love donations. The World of One strives to connect us, neighborhood to neighborhood, city to city, township to township, and county to county; through the gathering of local homegrown and Michigan owned business and practitioners. The World of One is the only two day Holistic Health and Wellness Expo in Michigan. The goal is to bring about a sense of unity and awareness to the entire state of Michigan as we are all affected in this time of economic and spiritual delicacy. At the World of One Expo you will be able to receive a relaxing chair massage, energy healing, reflexology, have your aura scanned, meet a psychic and have a reading for you and your pet, or just walk through the spacious vendor booths and learn a little something about wellness and some services from people in your home state. In addition there will be uplifting and inspiring lectures by Michiganders and other Mid-Western Intuitives, Practitioners, and Authors. Over the course of the two day event, the World of One will offer 20 hours of free activities, performances, and lectures by these talented artists and presenters. The Birch Run Expo Center will offer a unique Healthy Option food court. The Birch Run Expo Center is located at Exit 136, off I-75, and just 6 miles from Frankenmuth. Local hotels are also participating by offering a reduced rate for show vendors and patrons. Each night the Expo will close with a drumming, for all the vendors and patrons interested in sharing time together, in joined reflection and thanksgiving. In Honor of Mel Smith – Our Dad Just to name where our advertisment is at now: AAA Magazine DreamWeaver Magazine Greater Region Internet Phenome News Holisitc Event and Expo (internet) Ferndale Friends Dragon Horse Studio BBC Station WJKC 94.9 Oscodo 80, 90 Hits Tribal Observer Body Mind and Spirit Guide Natural Awkenings Balance Magazine The Sun Newspaper and Flint Journel

DragonHorse Studio is one of East Tawas’s latest additions. Officially having opened their doors in Early June 2007, Tracie Roy and Kim Bertsch have successfully brought art of a different measure to the Newman Street businesses. Complimenting blends of Native American, Celtic, Earthen and Modern artwork fill the studio walls. The studio offers a calming atmosphere to showcase the work and allows the customers a quiet peek into the artist’s eye. It also makes for a creative working studio, one that is always playing host to various artists and art forms. We are bringing in various musicians into the studio as well, for music inspires the soul. The studio is always evolving; each month new artists are featured. This current month Dr. Merrilee Brandt’s oil paintings are being shown. Many of us know her a medical professional, and few have seen this side of her. Kim stated, “Her work is amazing, and we had to coax her to take it out of her home studio to put it in the public eye. But we are very happy we did.” Tracie and Kim are no strangers to the business. They have been traveling around to juried fine art shows, mind, body and spirit shows, and pow wows for the past six years. They finally decided to plant the studio’s roots here in East Tawas, MI. Both having won various art awards for their work, they continue to expand their creative knowledge within the studio walls. Tracie is originally from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan having spent vacation time in Tawas over the years, decided it make it her home with her four daughters, Summer, Mya, Samantha and Dannielle. Kim is from the Detroit area, having spent her summers and weekends here, finally putting the city life behind her and her daughter Taylor. Together they live with Kim’s Mom Virginia, who is grandmother to all the girls on their ranch in the Tawas area. Upcoming events include a return visit from Ms. Margo, “The Bone Reader”, she will be at the studio May 4th-9th, she has lead traditional Native American drumming circles at the harbor fountain on Newman Street. All are welcome bring your spirit, and enjoy DragonHorse Studio.

The story behind the SpiritWalkers Sundancer©2006 My name is Kim Bertsch. I am an Artisan that was given a mission to create visual works that are given to me through meditation. For a long time I did not understand what my artistic calling was for. And after many yeas of art training, and countless different paths, I still was at a loss to find what it was I was supposed to be doing with my artwork. In 2001 I moved from Detroit Michigan to Tawas Michigan. Leaving the city ways behind, I retreated to the woods, my family, and our horses. My health was failing so I turned to my art training to fill my time. In November of 2002, DragonHorse Studio was born. Tracie Roy and I started turning towards our cultural roots and interests. Creating artwork that mirrored our native heritage. For four years we have traveled to Mind, Body, Spirit shows and Fine Art Shows across Michigan. We have worked on the internet as well, spanning miles to showcase our work, making sure it found the people that needed to see it. Each piece of sculpture is unique in itself. They all ask to have gemstones and/or crystals inlaid on them. They all reach out to different people, with different meanings and purposes. No two are ever alike. I never know what they will be. If someone asks me to make one especially for them, I put the intent out and my hands work the piece into what it is supposed to be. I have tried to plan them out many times, yet when I am done with them, they are never what I wanted. Simply because they are not about what I want. They are about what the Spirit World needs to be seen. Awhile ago I decided that I had made these little sculptures for quite some time now, and that perhaps it was time for me to do something different. I took a few months off, and all I could hear and see was more and more SpiritWalkers © all wanting to be completed. And one in particular was supposed to be cast in silver. So once again I was told I had been given a great gift. And they evolved once again. A limited edition Sterling Silver Pendant. I created in wax relief, the first in a limited series, Eagle Dancer. Working with Ken Branham of Branham’s Jewelry in East Tawas, Michigan it has become a reality. With my art background and his Fine Jewelry expertise it was given life. Eagle Dancer ©2007 But I still felt it was not all I was supposed to do. And so in meditation I posed the subject yet again. And I was told again and again…the gift had already been given…So I ask no more. I simply create what is shown to me from the Spirit World. Because of my restlessness, they have given me another medium to create them in. Another direction that has a larger impact. Watercolor paintings of them, shown in similar but different form. Again, no two are alike. When I have completed one, I sit back and wonder how it was I painted them. The style on each is different, as is the SpiritWalker. So I am humbled with each new creation. I ask no more, simply let the Spirit World do it’s work through me. The credit for the work is at their door. I am simply the tool they use. Tracie and I have decided to open a studio in East Tawas, Michigan. And those who need to find us will no doubt find their way to our doorstep, for the Spirit’s will guide them, as they always have. Na’Maste, Kim Bertsch Bear©2007 DragonHorse Studio (989)820-5650 880 S Rempert Tawas, MI 48763