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Out With the Old |
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| White Pine - February 1,
2009 The Konteka sports a
new sign these days "Coming
Soon GAS 24/7" The
Konteka has made
arrangements to acquire
above the ground gasoline
storage tanks. The addition
of gasoline sales is so that
snowmobiles owners will
continue to have a source
for fuel once the White Pine
Mobile Station closes for
business at the end of
February. The Mobile Station
closing follows the
closing of another station
in Silver City. The lack of
gasoline would undoubtedly
have a negative impact on
the number of snowmobile
tourist that come to the
area. |
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above - White
Pine Mobil Mart is scheduled
to close for business at the
end of February |
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Pigeons and Digabees
at the Reflection Gallery |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HANCOCK - January 28, 2009
D.C. Wilson (Iron Mountain, Mich.) and Lana
Bosak (Underwood, Minn.), both junior-level
Finlandia University illustration majors,
will exhibit their book illustrations
January 24 through February 15, 2009, at the
Reflection Gallery, Hancock.
A reception for the artists will take place
at the Reflection Gallery Thursday, February
5, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Rachel Reidenga, Reflection Gallery
director, says Wilson and Bosak both display
a wonderful affinity for their chosen
illustration careers. Reidenga, a sophomore
from Wetmore, Mich., is also an art and
design student at Finlandia; she is pursuing
a dual major in illustration and studio
arts.
The Reflection Gallery is located on the
second level of Finlandia's Jutila Center
campus, Hancock. For additional information,
contact Yueh-mei Cheng, associate professor
of studio arts, at 906-487-7375 or
yueh-mei.cheng@finlandia.edu.
Please contact karen.johnson@finlandia.edu
if you would like photos relating to this
release. |
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Author of “Sundays in
America”
will Present Writer’s
Seminar on Monday |
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February 2
HANCOCK, MI – Suzanne
Strempek Shea, author of
“Sundays in America: A
Yearlong Road Trip in
Search of Christian
Faith,” visited 50
diverse
churches in 30 states to
get a better
understanding of
contemporary
Protestant Christianity.
This Monday, February 2,
from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.,
Shea will speak about
why she embarked on her
journey and what she
discovered.
Part of Finlandia’s
Writer’s Journey series,
the free seminar will
take
place at the Finlandia
University Chapel of St.
Matthew, Hancock.
Following the seminar,
from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.,
Shea will sign copies of
her book.
From school basements to
mega-churches, amid
congregations numbering
fewer than 10 and more
than 10,000, in her book
novelist and cancer
survivor Suzanne
Strempek Shea offers a
chronicle of her
one-year
journey as she sought to
“understand what makes
for devotion to a
religious community,”
Suzanne Strempek Shea is
the author of five
novels and three
memoirs,
all published by Beacon
Press.
She is the winner of the
2000 New England Book
Award, and her freelance
work has appeared in
/Yankee/ magazine, /The
Bark/ magazine, /The
Boston
Globe/, /The
Philadelphia Inquirer/,
/Organic Style/ and
/ESPN the
Magazine/.
She lives in Bondsville,
Mass., with her husband,
Tommy, a columnist for
The Republican newspaper
in Springfield, Mass.,
and their two dogs, Tiny
and Bisquick.
The fourth Writer’s
Journey seminar, on
Thursday, February 5,
will
feature local popular
fiction author Rekha
Ambardar whose topic is
“The
View from Here: the
Writer’s World and
Work.”
For additional
information, please
contact Suzanne Van Dam,
Finlandia
associate professor of
English, at 906-487-7515
or
suzanne.vandam@finlandia.edu
<mailto:suzanne.vandam@finlandia.edu>.
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MEA: Teacher Retirement
Would Save Millions |
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above filephoto
of IASD board members Joann
Mattson nd Brian Anderson |
| Jan. 29, 2009 LANSING,
Mich. -
The Michigan Education
Association and a group of
bipartisan lawmakers said
Wednesday they have a proposal
that would save the state
millions.
The School Employee Retirement
Stimulus proposal is aimed at
encouraging public school
employees who are eligible to
retire in the near future to do
so.
The MEA said the savings happen
when school districts hire newer
employees at a lower starting
salary to replace retiring
teachers and staff.
The MEA suggested that the
proposal would also make
available the opportunity of
jobs for the next generation of
school teachers.
According to the MEA, if 10
percent of employees who are
already eligible for retirement
do so, the state would save more
than $410 million next year or
$1.7 billion over the next 10
years.
"These are tough financial times
and everyone in Michigan is
making sacrifices," said MEA
President Iris K. Salters in a
news release about the proposal.
"The Michigan Education
Association is proud to be part
of a solution that saves schools
money while investing in the
education that will prepare
students for the jobs Michigan
needs."
MEA said the savings from the
proposal would need to be used
to fill gaps in school budgets
and be used for teacher training
and mentoring.
"We have to address our state's
dropout crisis and these savings
provide a unique opportunity to
invest in early childhood
programs, class size reduction
and other proven methods to help
more students graduate from high
school," Salters said.
The proposal has drawn support
from members of both parties in
the state House and Senate.
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MTU Receives $700,000 Gift |
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Houghton - JAN. 28, 2009--A
family with extensive ties to
the Keweenaw has become a major
benefactor of Michigan Tech and
its students.
The University has received
estate gift funds of nearly
$700,000 from the family of
Robert, Rex and Paul Marshall,
brothers and business partners,
to support the Marshall Family
Endowed Scholarship Fund for
engineering students who
demonstrate financial need and
scholastic achievement.
Robert Marshall earned a
bachelor's degree in chemical
engineering from Michigan Tech
in 1942 and founded the Aluminum
Supply Company in Detroit in
1948.
The business specializes in
aluminum building products.
Later, the family founded
Marshall Sales Inc., a marketer
and distributor of industrial
fasteners. The two operations
are now part of the Marshall
Holding Company.
Rex Marshall also attended Tech,
for two years. Based on the
family's "experience and
education at Michigan Tech,"
another brother, Paul, was also
loyal to the University because
of its part in the success of
the company.
Rex Marshall had 12 children who
grew up in Eagle Harbor, where
they still have a home, and went
to school in Calumet in the
1960s and 1970s.
One of Rex Marshall's daughters,
Phyllis Clevenger, says of the
three brothers' philanthropy,
"They were committed to family,
community and Tech. They wanted
to give back and provide
educational opportunity for
those in need."
Other Marshalls have also
attended Michigan Tech. Rex's
wife, Marilyn, attended for two
years; Rex's daughter, Kerry
Marshall LaPointe, graduated in
1991 with a degree in scientific
and technical communication; and
Rex's grandson, James Clevenger,
is a freshman in mechanical
engineering this year.
Robert Marshall died in 1998;
Paul died in 2003; and Rex died
in 2007. Only Rex had children;
all 12 of them have worked at
the family's company. Currently,
Nancy Marshall is president and
CEO.
Besides the family sending
students to Tech, and now
supporting others, the company
has supplied architectural metal
roofing for various buildings on
campus.
"There's really quite a
connection between the Marshall
family and Michigan Tech," says
Sue Wierzbicki, another of Rex's
daughters.
In 2007, the Marshall's company,
which employs nearly 50 workers,
won a national award as a model
family business from the US
Small Business Administration. |
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Scouts
Hold Fundraiser
For Olympiad Students |
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| A Pancake
Breakfast Fundraiser Sunday at the St. Sebastian
School Gym. Bessemer and Wakefield Boy Scouts
from Troop 337 co-sponsored the Pancake
Breakfast with the 2009 Bessemer Area Schools
Science Olympiad participants. The proceeds from
the pancake breakfast will help to purchase
proper materials necessary to construct a wide
variety of science related projects such as
balsa wood bridges and rubber band propelled
airplanes. |
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The Science
Olympiad competition is at Northern Michigan
University on February 14, 2009. There are 36
Bessemer students who will be testing their
knowledge and skills in areas of engineering,
physics, biology, chemistry, earth science and
forensics.
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Play
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Bessemer
- January 26, 2009
The Bessemer School
Board gave the green light to a co-op football
program with the Wakefield-Marenisco School
District. The motion to approve the program
was passed unanimously by the board at
tonight's regularly scheduled meeting. The
co-op agreement is for five years and will
begin this fall if and when it is approved by
MHSAA.
The board also approved
most band trips requested by Mrs. Mary
Jo Mykkanen. Those requests which
conflicted with the existing board policy were
not approved. It was felt that the current
fiscal environment is not any better than it
was at the time that the current policy was
formulated 7 or 8 years ago.
The district's Business
Manager, Chris Bergquist advised the board
that an application had been completed
requesting funds under the new federal
stimulus plan. The school district is
requesting $325,000 to replace all the glass
block windows at the Washington School and the
glass block at the ADJ gymnasium.
Ms. Bergquist contacted
Hitch Engineering which had all plans for the
school in their office and were therefore able
to provide an estimate on the cost of the
windows. Due to the expectations of reduced
energy costs the request is being made under
the Go Green provisions of the stimulus plan.
Washington School Head
Teacher, Mr.Gene Goss, advised the board of a
change in tradition at the school regarding
first and third grade students. Instead
of exchanging gifts at Christmas this
year, the students donated to the
International Hereford Program the money that
they would have spent on the presents. This
terrific demonstration of generosity resulted
in $340 being collected.. The money will be
used for the purchase of a Water
Buffalo, a flock of Geese, Ducklings and
a Bee Hive which are enough to sustain three
families.
Next Monday the students
will be going to the Ironwood Theater to see
the Eisenhower Dance Company. Each child will
donate one dollar to see the show. Tuesday
afternoon dancers from the dance company will
come to the Washington School and conduct gym
classes.
Mr. Goss went to the
M.S.U. office and wrote a grant for snow
shoes. Gene plans to take one class per day
for a week to the football field to learn how
to snow shoe.
Mr. Goss also advised
the board that in early March the PTA was
planning to have live and silent auctions to
buy upper level play ground equipment. He
would inform the board when more details were
available
Administrator, Mark
Johnson advised the board that science teacher
Dave Rowe applied for a Target grant of
$1,000. The school was awarded $800. The grant
money will be used to take Mr. Rowe's first
science class on a field trip to Adventure
Mine. |
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Next Writer's Journey Seminar:
Katie Alvord, Author of
"Divorce Your Car" |
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HANCOCK, MI - Katie Alvord, best known
as the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending
the Love Affair with the Automobile, will
present the second Finlandia University
Writer's Journey seminar Thursday, January
29, from 4:00 to 5:30, at the Chapel of St.
Matthew.
Alvord is a freelance writer and long-term
advocate of transportation reform. Her work
has appeared in numerous publications,
including Alternatives, the Boston Globe,
Orion Afield, E Magazine, Utne Reader, and
others. A former librarian, she has worked
with non-profit groups and served on local
environmental and bicycle advisory
committees.
Most recently, Alvord's series on climate
change in the Lake Superior basin won the
2007 Science Journalism Award for Online
Reporting from the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. In 1993, she was
recognized as a San Francisco Bay Area Clean
Air Champion for "making a difference" by
going car-free and writing about the
experience. Alvord has lectured frequently
on environmental topics in the U.S. and
Canada. Born and raised in northern
California, she now lives in the Copper
Country.
The series of eleven Finlandia University
Writer's Journey seminars, occurring weekly
January through April 2009, features talks
by poets, fiction and non-fiction writers,
and journalists in which the authors share
their work and discuss the writing process,
literary craft, and publishing.
The third Writer's Journey seminar, to take
place Monday, February 2, will feature
Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of Sundays in
America: Writing about a Yearlong Road Trip
in Search of Christian Faith.
For additional information, please contact
Suzanne Van Dam at 906-487-7515 or
suzanne.vandam@finlandia.edu.
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