Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Ontonagon Area High School valedictorian Page Blake leads the 2016 class in placing the class flower the spider mum in vases that were then brought to the podium area of the graduation ceremony. On the left following her in placing another flower was Lucas Dean, salutatorian.
By JAN TUCKER
ONTONAGON - Ontonagon Area High School graduation speaker Jim LaBine told graduates Friday that "when you leave here you can be anything you want to be and I spent all my life figuring this out." He then demonstrated the statement with his own life experiences.
LaBine, an Ontonagon native, graduated from the Ontonagon Area High School in 1986. He told graduates that he "flunked algebra" in high school and entered the Army, where he performed maintenance and inspections on the Army's observation helicopters. During a tour of duty in South Korea, he received...
