Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Wednesday, April 19 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution, 9-10 a.m., Pioneer Park Apartments, Ironwood. 906-932-4200. Blood Pressure Clinic, 10 to 11:15 a.m., Hurley Senior Center. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. DOVE Support Group, noon-2 p.m. 906-932-4990. Ironwood/Hurley Rotary Club, 12:15 p.m., Elk and Hound Restaurant, Ironwood. Iron County Historical Society, 1 p.m., Historical Society....
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — The bond between Hurley pre-kindergarten students and Skyview Nursing Home residents is mutually beneficial. Hurley pre-K teacher Katie Brunell on Monday told school board members the students visit the nursing home four times a year, usually around the holidays. Board president Joe Simonich, of Kimball, employed in the health care field, attested as to how important the visits are to the senior citizens. He said as soon as the students leave the nursing home, some residents begin asking w...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - There is a hidden location - similar to a restaurant but not a restaurant, - in Bessemer providing healthy chow to seniors citizens and others four days a week. The establishment is located on the side of the Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency building, behind the Bessemer Commons building off U.S. 2. When walking into the Mill Street Garden in Bessemer, Donna Lepske is likely found behind the register and counter. Lepske takes care...
WILLISTON, N.D. - After a courageous battle with cancer, Jeffrey Mark Nordine, 64, former Bruce Crossing, Mich., resident, was called home to be with our Lord and Savior on Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Williston. Jeff was born in Wakefield, Mich., on Nov. 25, 1952, to Thomas and Seere Nordine. He graduated with the class of 1970 from Ewen-Trout Creek High School. After graduation, Jeff and his lifelong best friend, Greg Tulppo, briefly worked in Illinois before he came back to Bruces to join the...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — Thirty-three years ago the Ontonagon Area Scholarship Foundation presented its first scholarship award of $500 to a graduate of the class of 1984. Since that time the foundation has granted $340,000 to 602 graduates from the Ontonagon Area Schools. Last year’s graduates who applied for foundation scholarships each received $1,500 toward college or trade school. The foundation now has more than $1 million due to the generosity of donors and the 37 named scholarship trusts. Ten of the trusts, eac...
MADISON, Wis. - Kim Marie (Hackett) Butkiewicz, 54, of Bessemer, Mich., died Saturday, April 15, 2017, at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison. She was born Sept. 21, 1962, in Redondo Beach, Calif., the daughter of the late Patricia Jones. Kim attended school in California. She was a hard worker who held a wide variety of jobs throughout her life. She worked as a model, a professional roller skater and even was an extra in a few movies while living in California. She later worked in...
