Tip-Up Town's Future In Jeopardy.

The future of a popular Northern Michigan winter festival is at risk. Organizers say a lack of volunteers and a lack of sponsors are the problem.

[B Rogers]

Tip Up Town has become a disgrace to the community with the heavy drinking and countless arrests that take place. It won't surprise me if the community doesn't support it any more. My opinion and of many others. Most of us just leave town. Let's clean it up.

[Anon]

Too bad. Move to another town then. This event brings snowmobilers, families and fun. It is not all drinking.

[Don]

It would be too bad to see Tip-up-town come to an end. But with today's economy, who'd be suprised. Take a good look around town. It seems there's more "for sale" signs than businesses or people for that matter. The town has lost it's image and appeal.Resturants and resorts that made Houghton Lake the place to get away from the city life are becoming too commercialized.I don't need to drive 200 miles from my home down state to go to Wal-Mart or a Quality Inn. I have that and more in Livonia and Northville. Local resturants with that neighborly welcoming appeal "burn" down and never re-open.I enjoyed Tip-Up-town before I bought snowmobiles and even more so after I bought them. But there's pleanty of more snow elsewhere in Michigan where I can take the family. Oh how we miss Chet n Em's, Carters and Randall Lumber. If Houghton Lake loses Wal-Mart and Home Depot you may as well close up the town as well.