Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM LAVENTURE tlaventure@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Chamber of Commerce has started planning for the 2021-2022 Jack Frost Festival, according to a report to the Downtown Ironwood Development Authority on Thursday. The Jack Frost Festival page on the chamber website has the seasonal calendar of events from Nov. 18 through Jan. 29, 2022, said Michael Meyer, chamber director. The events listed are verified as being planned with the organizers and more will be added as they are confirmed, he said. “There will be more eve...
By ZACHARY MARANO zmarano@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — The Garland City Consort played at the Historic Ironwood Theatre for the first time in three years on Sunday. The chamber orchestra performed lesser-known classical music from the baroque period on stage at the theater. “This is actually the first time we’ve been on a normal performing stage since 2018, but we’ve been performing pretty much constantly since then,” said Alexander McInnes, the concert master and violin player. The program included “Concerto for Violin & Flute” by Giuseppe B...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Tuesday, Sept. 28 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Patterson Courts, Ironwood. If rain: Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry and Financial Assistance, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., located behind Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. 906-932-4325. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Alcoholics Anon...
HURLEY, Wis. - Julia Ann (Perlich) Rosa, 98, of Ironwood and Hurley, passed away Saturday evening, Sept. 18, 2021, after a long and fabulous life. Julia, or Julie as she was known, was one of a kind and ahead of her time! She was a feminist (telling her daughters to grow themselves first before they got married), a fashionista (leopard was one of her favorite colors), a life-long Democrat (a Mother Jones subscriber and C-Span devotee), a strong Croatian woman, a singer, a dancer, a wife, a...
MERCER, Wis. - Clemetta Evenson, age 101, of Mercer, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021, at her home. Clemetta was born on June 18, 1920, in Chicago, the daughter of the late Peter and Rose (Roeder) Spanier. Clemetta received her nursing diploma from St. Elizabeth Hospital in Chicago in 1941. She enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps in February of 1942 and was stationed at Scott Field, in East St. Louis, Illinois. Clemetta met and married Capt. Warren Evenson, of Mercer, on March 13, 1943,...
ROCKLAND, Mich. - Theodore Gregory "Ted" Seid passed on to his next life quietly at his home, surrounded by his loving family, on Sept. 24, 2021. He would have been 93 in December and had been in failing health for some time. Ted was born to Andrew and Gertrude (Walters) Seid on Dec. 20, 1928, in Rockland. He attended Rockland Schools, graduating with the Class of 1947. He served with the U.S. Army from 1949 to 1952 in both Japan and Korea. He received the Army Occupation Medal, the Overseas...
WEST OLIVE, Mich. - George Joseph Briar, 88 of West Olive, Michigan, went home to be with God on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. George was born on Feb. 19, 1933, in Ironwood, the son of John Joseph Briar and Pauline Agnes (Krispinsky) Briar. He attended L. L. Wright High School and graduated in 1951. He served in the U. S. Army from 1953 to 1956. George graduated from Michigan State University in 1962. He taught English and later became a school librarian and media specialist at three different...