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DICSA may discontinue meals at Crystal Falls Senior Center
November 6, 2009
IRON MOUNTAIN — The Dickinson-Iron Community Services Agency (DICSA) may cease to fund meals through the Crystal Falls Senior Center if the agency’s governing board approves a recommendation by executive director Jeffrey Heino.
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Longer school days at Forest Park beginning Monday
November 6, 2009
CRYSTAL FALLS — The Forest Park School District
is lengthening its school day to save money.
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IM council to accept applications for vacancies
November 6, 2009
By LINDA LOBECK
Staff Writer
IRON MOUNTAIN — A special meeting of the Iron Mountain City Council was held this morning to accept the resignations of council members Dan Burke and Jeff VanLaanen.
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Gene’s Pond camping closed
November 6, 2009
SAGOLA — The Department of Natural Resources announced the temporary closure of Gene’s Pond State Forest Campground beginning today. The campground is located approximately 12 miles east of Sagola on Leeman Road in Dickinson Count.
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Vietnam veterans representative has been laid off
November 6, 2009
IRON MOUNTAIN — Due to a reporting and accounting issue at the Michigan Department of Veterans Affairs in Lansing, Vietnam Veterans of American (VVA) has had to temporarily lay off service representative Vic Romback and all other service...
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North Dickinson program Nov. 11
November 6, 2009
FELCH — The North Dickinson County School will be holding a Veterans Day Program Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 1:30 p.m. at the school.
The public, family and veterans especially are invited to attend the program, which is to honor all veterans.
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The resignation letter
Wed, November 4, 2009 @ 4:20PM
People who regularly scan the “blogosphere” may be familiar with Matthew P. Hoh. Hoh, a former U.S. marine captain with combat experience in Iraq, resigned in September as a political officer in the Foreign Service stationed in Afghanistan. He was the senior U.S. civilian in the Taliban-dominated Southern Afghanistan province of Zabul. He wrote a four-page letter of resignation to the State Department that has been widely cited in recent weeks. His contention is that our occupation is fueling the very insurgency we are trying to defeat. I’m offering portions of that letter here simply to bring it forward. As far as I know, it hasn’t garnered widespread attention in the “traditional media” other than a story in the Washington Post. It is, of course, just one officer’s opinion, but if you haven’t come across it, I hope you’ll find it worth the read.
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Crunching baseball numbers
Thu, October 22, 2009 @ 4:53PM
Interesting baseball numbers found in the Boston Globe and Detroit Free Press: — New Chicago Cubs hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo made $600,000 tutoring the Texas Rangers for the past 15 years. That isn’t the highest wage for a hitting coach, as Kevin Long of the Yankees (almost $1 million) tops the list. Wouldn’t it make economic sense for these Major League Baseball teams to show a video of former Channing slugger Todder Lindeman and say “Hit like this?” — Arizona third baseman Mark Reynolds makes around $400,000 a year instead of something like $5 million for the only player this season with 40 home runs, 100 RBI and 20 stolen bases. He would be making more but has 138 days of service time — 141 for the big bucks. — Detroit Tigers ace Justin Verlander threw 11 games of 120 pitches or more this season. He totaled 3,940 pitches, more than any American League starter since Roger Clemens in 1997 with Tor.
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Benefit for Gayle Strutz
Thu, October 15, 2009 @ 12:34PM
As many of you read in The Daily News last week, Gayle (Duff) Strutz, who is a co-worker of mine at the News, was recently diagnosed with Stage 3 Adencarinoma (a form of lung cancer). Receiving the cancer diagnosis is scary enough without having to deal with the financial stress caused by the illness. Family, friends and coworkers want to help by raising money to ease the burden of these medical expenses. A fund-raiser benefit has been set for Saturday, Nov. 21, at the Uren-Cooper-Johnson American Legion Post 50 in Iron Mountain from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. A spaghetti dinner will be served for a $5 donation per person. The local band, Kamakazi Blitz will be performing throughout the day. Drawings, 50/50s and a silent auction is also in the works. Organizers are asking area businesses and the public for their help to make this benefit a success. They are in need of items that can be used for door prizes, as well as for the silent auction.
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Allie-Jo
Wed, November 4, 2009 @ 10:55AM
My wife Jo Anna and I were blessed with a second healthy baby last week. Allison Joyce was born on Oct. 28 at 2:48 p.m. She was 7.6 pounds and 19 inches. Mom and baby are both doing very well and only spent a little over 24 hours in the hospital, which was good considering the tight visitor restrictions in place at DCH due to the flu. On our way to the hospital for delivery, we still hadn’t picked out a name for a girl. We had a boy’s name decided, but couldn’t narrow down our list of girl’s names other than the middle name of Joyce which is after my grandmother. Funny thing is, Allison wasn’t even on our list. It was something I just threw out there a few hours before the baby came, and my wife really liked the name. And that was that. After months of indecision, we ended up going with a name we never even discussed previously. And it fit perfect. Since bringing Allison home from the hospital, her two-year old brother Jake has been all smiles, hugs and kisses.
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Lack of specialty books
Thu, October 29, 2009 @ 10:37AM
Why is it that it is so hard to find the book you are looking for at the local bookstore or department stores that sell books? Whenever I am looking for a specific book, such as a new cookbook, I can never find it. Books that are talked about on daytime talk shows are not sold in this area. Yes you can ask the store to order the book for you, but then it takes a good two weeks for it to come in. My mom says because of the remote area we live in, books are stocked by volume that sells. Either way, it’s not fair. I guess that is why more and more people turn to the Internet to order books and other items. So I will be ordering the books I am interested in online or from the author’s Web site.
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Try that in Green Bay
Thu, November 5, 2009 @ 1:49PM
For those of you thinking of traveling to some far city for your Christmas shopping — don’t do it. I’ve had to make a couple of large purchases recently. I never like spending money, but I shopped in the local area, and the experience was a pleasure. Take for example, the time when I was shopping for a item for the house. I walked into the store to see what was available. I had not been in that store in several months, maybe a year. I asked what type of items were in stock. The owner pulled out a box and said, “Here, take it home and try it. If you like it, come back and you can pay me later. If you don’t like it, you can bring it back.” He didn’t ask for a down payment, a reference — nothing. He knew my face as a local resident and as a past customer. This item, mind you, was in the $200 range. To me, that’s a lot of money. Try doing that in Green Bay. By the way, I liked and kept the ite.
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Gnomes must be stopped
Wed, October 14, 2009 @ 6:49PM
The Associated Press is reporting that a German artist is posing 1,250 garden gnomes with their arms outstretched in the stiff-armed Hitler salute in an installation that he calls a protest of lingering fascist tendencies in German society. Artist Ottmar Hoerl posed the gnomes in the historic central marketplace of Straubing, a town in southeastern Germany. The exhibit called ‘‘dance with the devil’’ is to run through Oct. 19. Most of gnomes are black plastic, but about 20 are painted shiny gold. Displaying Nazi symbols is illegal in Germany but a court ruled earlier this year that Hoerl’s gnomes were clearly satire and thus allowed. But as local gnome-hater J** R*** (code name Clear Hair) will tell you, this isn’t really the case. That so called artist is clearly being controlled by the gnomes, who have orchestrated a secret tribute to Hitler, disguised as a protest. There is no end to what these evil little creatures will d.
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Because hope matters
Thu, October 22, 2009 @ 12:29PM
It seems like every month certain causes are brought to our attention to raise awareness for things like leukemia, breast cancer, domestic violence, and Alzheimer's disease. Awareness is half the battle and puts these very important issues into the limelight. October is also an awareness month for two rare diseases — PSP and CBD — both diseases that my mother was diagnosed with more than four years ago. Both diseases led to her death in August at the age of 71. Until she received her "official" diagnosis at the Mayo Clinic and we had a name for what was going on with her, I had never heard of these diseases. Thank goodness we had the care of Dr. Barry Johnson locally to guide us through the continual changes in my mom's condition. PSP is Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a neurodegenerative brain disease with no known cause, treatment or cure. It is often misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease because of the general slowing of movement.
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DMB ROCKED, TINLEY PARK CRUMBLED
Tue, September 29, 2009 @ 12:32P
My friend and co-worker Margueite Lanthier and I have been to seven of "The Dave Matthews Band" concerts together. She has a couple more under her belt, but we hit seven together. The first one we saw was at Soldier field in Chicago, the next five at Alpine Valley in Milwaukee and the last at The First Midwest Amphitheater in Tinley Park, Illinois, south of Chicago. Of the three venues Tinley Park was most disappointing. For starters no tailgating. At the Alpine Valley events we always came hours early and geared up for the event by cooking out, listening to our favorite songs and meeting other Dave fans in the parking lot. Speaking of parking lots... This year we picked up three other friends and Dave Fans to join us at the concert, Mindy, Michelle and Sarah, so we decided to all pitch in for VIP parking. We figured $40.00 divided by five was only $8.00 a piece and we could "Drive In, Drive Out". What a waste of money.
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I like Minnesota
Wed, November 4, 2009 @ 4:01PM
No, I don’t mean the Minnesota Vikings. But. . .with all of this football and Brett Favre nonsense going around, I thought I should point out the good in our fellow Midwestern state. Mystery Science Theater 3000, possibly the greatest TV show of all time, was created and filmed in Minnesota. You remember it, right? Mike Nelson (or Joel Robinson in the earlier seasons) and his robot friends are trapped in space and forced to watch (and mock) hilariously bad movies. It aired on Comedy Central in the mid-90s and on the Sci-Fi channel in the late 90s. Then we have that quintessential Minnesota TV show: The Mary Tyler Moore Show! Mary Richards was so hip, Lou Grant was so creepy, Sue Ann Nivens was so irritating, and the Chuckles the Clown episode was so funny (It deserves the hype). Really, what’s not to love? Do you think the 80s music scene was all about synth music, Madonna, and Michael Jackson? No! Thanks to Minnesota, it wasn’.
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