[Plugin: Events Manager] Display 1 entry for recurring event in list?

I’ve got a front page at http://stlseniorevents.com/
that pulls the next 4 events with category ‘Featured’ and shows their Event Image and title/date.

Here is my code:

EM_Events::output(array('limit'=>4, 'scope'=>'future', 'orderby'=>'start_date', 'category'=>42,
					'format'=>'
					<div class="img-item">
						<a href="#_EVENTURL">
							#_EVENTIMAGE
							<p>#_NAME - #M, #j</p>
						</a>
					</div>
					'
					));

Is there a way to allow a recurring event (master) to be set as Featured and displayed once as opposed to every time the event reoccurs as it currently acts?

An additional hope would be that the date display could list the start and end date of the recurrence.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/