Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] UPSON, Wis. — The traditional kids’ fishing opener on Weber Lake has been moved back a week this year to Saturday, May 14. The Youth Fishing Jamboree is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon and the first 50 children to be signed up will receive a free rod and reel combination and a lunch of hot dogs, bratwursts and soft drinks, sponsored by the Superior Bass Fishing Club. Members of that club, with the help of many other volunteers, will assist youths and their families at the jamboree. Bait will be pro...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] IRONWOOD - The newly formed Eating Healthy and Physical Activity Coalition announced its plan Wednesday to encourage healthy living throughout the area. For the past year, Andrea Newby, from the Iron County Human Services Department; Amy Nosal, from the University of Wisconsin Extension office; Megan Martell, from the Michigan State University Extension office; and Jackie Powers, a local health advocate, have been meeting to establish the core of the...
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Thursday, May 5 Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Wakefield City Hall; 1-2 p.m., Watersmeet Township; 2:45-3:15 p.m., Marenisco Township. 906-667-1110. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Grief Support Group, 2 p.m., all welcome, The Inn Bed and Breakfast, Montreal, Wis. 906-663-0308. ReGeneration Youth, 5:30-6:45 p.m., ages 10-11; Relentless Youth, 7-9 p.m., ages 12-18; Lighthouse Faith Center, Ironwood. Knights of Columbus 4th Degree Pere Menard Assembly 471, 6 p.m. business...
WAKEFIELD, Mich. - Iris (Steele, Clement) Brown, 100, died peacefully at Gogebic Medical Care Facility in Wakefield on Sunday, May 1, 2016. Iris R. Steele was born Oct. 23, 1915, to Oscar and Sarah Steele of Gurney, Wis. Her wish was to be cremated with no viewing. After graduation from Saxon High School, she worked in Chicago as a cook and then in a torpedo factory to aid the war effort during World War II. She returned to Saxon, Wis., in 1943 to marry Paul "Napoleon" Clement. They purchased...
EWEN, Mich. — Florence Irene Eldredge, 90, of Ewen, passed away on May 3, 2016, at home. Florence was born in Ewen to Simon and Irene Anderson on Aug. 2, 1925. She graduated from the Ewen School. She married John “Red” Hasenbeng and had four children, John, Nancy, Sandy and Pam. Later, she married Arch Eldredge and had two children, Marybeth and Roger. She worked various jobs at the Oulu School, Oulu Co-op Store, bartending at Teske’s, South Branch, Train Station and was site coordinator at the Ewen Senior Center. Florence is survived by her...
EWEN, Mich. — Edith M. Applekamp passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her family on May 3, 2016. Born May 24, 1938, to the late Ernest and Elsie Lindsey in Hulbert. As a child, she and her family moved to Ewen where she spent the rest of her life. Edith was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Bergland. Edith loved cooking and baking, tending to her flowers, crocheting and was awed by nature. Edith is survived by her husband, Kenneth; children, Gerald (Nita) Platzke, Ontonagon, Joel (Dawn) Platzke, Princeton, Minn., Barbara P...
