Ironwood's First Friday prepares to Craft Your North

By BRYAN HELLIOS

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Ironwood — Downtown businesses are preparing for a Craft Your North theme to celebrate Ironwood’s First Friday event this evening.

Manager of Contrast Coffee Co. Becky Bogaczyk, said the shop will offer their signature hand crafted Sisu drinks from 5 to 7 p.m. The store will also have a pop-up shop offering crafts and home décor items.

“We are just really excited for this First Friday because it is Craft Your North and we are a coffee crafting shop,” she said. “It should be fun.”

Other downtown business are participating in the event as well.

The Historic Downtown Theater will be showing the 1982 blockbuster movie “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.”

The theater’s website describes the movie as a “classic heart-warming movie that needs to be seen on the big screen.”

Directed by Steven Spielberg, the story begins with an extraterrestrial who was left behind by his friends and stranded on earth. A small boy named Elliott becomes his friend and helps hide him from the government while helping him return to his home planet while

The movie stars Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore and Pat Welsh.

According to the theater’s website, admission is free tonight for First Friday movies, but donations are appreciated.

For those who are hungry, Ironwood Wesley United Methodist Church is hosting a First Friday community dinner of pasta, bread, and home made desserts. The meal will be served from 4 to 6 p.m. is free to everyone and donations are accepted.

Also this evening, Theatre North is offering one more performance of its production of “Painting Churches” at 7 p.m. Sunday’s matinee was snowed out, so theater officials decided to offer one more show.