Runners start the Le Demi Grand, a half marathon and 10K race on Grand Island on Saturday, Sept. 16. The race is part of the annual Great Lakes Endurance marathon series, which also hosts the Grand Island 50K earlier in the summer and other races in nature areas of Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula. The amount of racers was down from last year, but local participation increased. Results were not available by deadline of this week’s The Munising Beacon. Brice Burge