Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
WHITE THUNDER Riders club president Joel Enking, left, and Dave Vuorenmaa hold up items auctioned off at the Iron County Memorial Building in Hurley on Saturday as a fund-raiser to groom snowmobile trails.
HURLEY - On a sunny Saturday, snowmobilers and local residents filled the Iron County Memorial Building to raise funds to groom the trails.
The White Thunder Riders snowmobile club of Oma conducted its annual winter fund-raiser.
To get to the event, snowmobilers could ride the trail to Jerry's Amoco and then cross the street to obtain easy access to the Memorial Building parking lot off U.S. 51.
One by one, items donated by businesses and individuals were auctioned off to the highest bidders in the full hall.
On a day with temperatures in the single digits, it seemed like a heatwave compar...
