Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
PARTICIPANTS IN a float based on the movie "Grease" act out for the crowd during a Sunday Labor Day parade in Ontonagon. They narrowly lost first place to the Norwich Country Club, which had a "Gilligan's Island" theme.
By JAN TUCKER
ONTONAGON - A television show and a movie took first and second place at the 68th annual Ontonagon Labor Day Festival parade on Sunday.
The Norwich Country Club, with its depiction of Gilligan's Island, narrowly defeated the Bauer family and Friends' float of "Grease" for the number one slot.
The Norwich entry was multi-phased with a shipwrecked yacht, palm trees, island natives and all the TV favorites, including Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Howell III and Gilligan himself. A large Coast Guard ship also was there for the rescue.
The Bauer family float on the "Gr...
