Fran Lukkarinen, right, is pictured teaching a chair yoga class on Thursday morning at the Gwinn Clubhouse in Forsyth Township. Lukkarinen is originally from Negaunee but when her husband graduated from Michigan Tech University in Houghton, the two moved to Iowa before moving to Minnesota. “We were gone for 40 years and then when we moved back, we’ve always had a place on Little Shag Lake. So we sold that small icky cabin and we bought a house,” she said. “So that’s what brought us back here. We’ve always wanted to live on the lake.” Lukkarinen stays busy – whether that be teaching chair yoga, regular yoga, serving on the Forsyth Township Public Library Board as secretary or singing in church. Donations from the chair yoga classes are given back to FTPL. She is also a caretaker for her sister who has a disability and her mother-in-law who is going on 96. “So yeah, I have a busy schedule,” Lukkarinen said. The Upper Peninsula is her happy place, she said. When she moved out of the state, one thing Lukkarinen said she missed were the trees. “When you live in Iowa, you have big oak trees and stuff but you don’t have really forests,” she said. “And Minnesota too. We thought it’d be forested but we lived in the southwest corner and it was kind of on the plains so it wasn’t very pretty either. I just love being here. I don’t love winter so much but I do love the other seasons.” (Journal photo by Dreyma Beronja)