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Event Sunday in IM to honor Dr. Jacobs

BOUQUET The community will have the chance Sunday afternoon to say thanks to longtime area family physician Dr. Donald Jacobs. Local families, physicians, nursing and medical center staff and others are invited to Pine Grove Country Club, 520 W. Hughitt St. in Iron Mountain, from 2 to 5 ...

PEO thanks Culver’s for recent fundraiser

BOUQUET To the owners, managers, and staff of Culver’s, a huge thank you for recently partnering with our P.E.O. Chapter AN for a Culver’s Cares fundraiser at your Iron Mountain restaurant. It was fun being a part of the staff for the evening. Thanks to your hospitality and the donation of a portion of the evening’s sales, we will be able to continue helping women fulfill their educational goals by supporting P.E.O. philanthropies. We thank all of you, and your customers, for your generosity! For more information on P.E.O., go to www.peointernational.org.

Families should learn the signs of drowning

For World Drowning Prevention Day on Saturday, a trauma expert in Wisconsin warns that drowning can be fast, silent and difficult to recognize when seconds count to react in time. World Drowning Prevention Day, observed annually on July 25, serves as a reminder that many drowning deaths are preventable. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 4,000 fatal unintentional drownings occur in the United States each year, an average of 11 deaths per day. An additional 8,000 near-drownings are treated in emergency departments annually. “The biggest thing ...

Absentee ballots, early voting sites offer options for primary

At a time when voting by mail has been increasingly challenged — President Donald Trump has repeatedly leveled unfounded claims of fraud against absentee ballots, including in his prime-time speech a week ago in which he called them “inherently corrupt” — state election officials this week said more Michigan voters are opting to use this method this summer. With two weeks left before the Aug. 4 primary election, 572,553 Michigan voters had already cast their ballot, according to data publicly available on the relaunched Michigan Voting Dashboard, mi.gov/votingdashboard. Voter ...