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Call (906) 932-4449 Buck sighted Ironwood, MI Deer study reveals information on Redsautosales.com spread of CWD. OUTDOORS • 18 DAILY GLOBE Saturday, October 26, 2019 Sunny yourdailyglobe.com | High: 52 | Low: 34 | Details, page 2 Friday fright night SPOOKY, SCARY at All Saints By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD – All Saints Academy was the place to be on Friday night if you were a kid looking for a fun time. The annual “Fun Frolic” event in the All Saints Catholic Academy gymnasium typical- ly draws more than 2,000 kids and their par- ents for games, food, costume contests and of course, the famous haunted house. “I liked going through the spooky house,” said Audriana Carli, 7, of Ironwood. The scariest part was “when the hand popped out,” she said. Dean Carli, her father, said they’ve been taking her to the event for years and she always has a good time. The game are fun but it’s about being at an event with practically everyone in town with a kid also attending, he said. “It’s everything, Carli said. “A lot of her school mates are here.” Madison Sterbenz, 14, Ironwood, is a for- mer All Saints student and a parishioner of Our Lady of Peace Parish. She has volun- teered for years and this year led the kids into the haunted house that stretched the Tom LaVenture/Daily Globe EVENT VOLUNTEER Olivia Anderman, left, watches as Sydney Svoke, 7, Gile, reaches the top level in the cup stacking game Friday during the “Fun Frolic” event at All Saints Catholic Academy gymnasium. FRIGHT — page 5 AWARENESS MONTH MSP hands out A Survivor’s Journey food donations By RICHARD JENKINS pantries to help residents in Bessemer woman [email protected] need. WAKEFIELD – Gogebic Sixteen percent of Michigan emerges from cancer County food pantries had the households struggle to put food opportunity to stock their on the table, according to with positive outlook shelves in time for the holiday Michigan Department of Agri- season Friday as the Michigan culture and Rural Development By P.J. GLISSON State Police’s Wakefield Post Director Gary McDowell, and [email protected] distributed the food items the 21% of of children in the state BESSEMER – When a 2017 mammogram community has donated over don’t know where their next looked suspicious, Deborra Bonovetz of Besse- the past several weeks. meal will come from. mer underwent an exploratory procedure in Although the final donation Although donations collect- which nothing was found. totals are still being finalized, ed in Gogebic County were After another mammogram last year, howev- post officials said they received down from last year, Horn was- er, Bonovetz resulted by the end of June with 22,275 pounds of donations n’t surprised. the “shocking” confirmation that she did, from Gogebic County. “It’s down a little bit, but indeed, have cancer. “We did good – I’m happy, that’s expected with the prison “That was a bummer Fourth of July,” she the pantries are going to be being closed,” Horn said. said, adding that breast cancer did not run in happy,” said Lt. Donald Horn, He thanked the local busi- her family and that she’d had no symptoms. the post commander. “We had nesses and community mem- She added that she’d smoked only briefly while a very generous community bers for their continued gen- young and assured, “I was basically pretty P.J. Glisson/Daily Globe again this year, without the erosity. healthy.” ACCOMPANIED HERE by her furry friends is community it wouldn’t be suc- Along with MSP personnel, In a Friday interview at her home on Tilden Deborra Bonovetz on Friday at her Tilden cessful.” students from the Ironwood Road in Bessemer, Bonovetz shared what it was Road home in Bessemer. The dog and cat are The annual food drive is a and Bessemer National Honor like to undergo her subsequent surgery, fol- Sophie and Precious, respectively. Sophie partnership between the Michi- Societies volunteered Friday to lowed by breast reconstruction. has an identical sister named Sadie, who gan State Police, Michigan distribute the food from the “He said it was about the size of an eraser on opted not to be in the portrait. Bonovetz said Department of Agriculture and post’s garage to food pantries in the end of a pencil,” said Bonovetz regarding her husband, Joe, and her pets were part of Rural Development and the Ironwood, Bessemer and what Dr. Enrico Braucher of Aspirus Ironwood her local support team when she underwent Food Bank Council of Michi- Watersmeet. said then of the tumor in her right breast, treatment for cancer last year. gan, according to information This is the 29th year the which had not spread to any lymph nodes. possibility of cancer recurring. from organizers. Donations are MSP has participated in the She added of the unsettling diagnosis, “You “I was very fortunate in that I didn’t need collected around the state and Michigan Harvest Gathering can wallow in it and be afraid,” but in her case, chemo or radiation,” said Bonovetz, but added, distributed to local food food drive campaign. she said, “I just gave it to the Lord.” “I wish I had had someone to talk to about the After considering her options, she decided aftermath.” to get a double mastectomy, which was com- Ultimately, she did connect with another pleted on Aug. 23 of last year and required only one night in the hospital. It was followed by a prescription for Arimidex, which reduces the SURVIVOR — page 2 Presentation puts focus on Alzheimer’s and Dementia By KIM E. STROM standing Alzheimer’s and from the Alzheimer’s Association [email protected] Dementia. that Taylor based her presenta- IRONWOOD – Understand- Dementia is an umbrella term. tion on. The main differences are ing the difference between Alzheimer’s is a form of demen- listed below: Alzheimer’s and dementia is tia, and it can be a cause of Alzheimer’s — Two abnormal important because there are tech- dementia, according to Taylor. brain structures called plaques niques and medications that can The symptoms of dementia are and tangles are…thought to dam- treat the symptoms, according to changes in memory, thinking or age and kill nerve cell. Richard Jenkins/Daily Globe Sundi Taylor, program coordina- reasoning. Alzheimer’s disease causes the IRONWOOD STUDENTS Calista Sibley, left, and Hailey Nezwors- tor for the Greater Michigan There are four different kinds nerve cells to die. ki help Michigan State Police Wakefield Post commander Lt. Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Asso- of dementia. Alzheimer’s, vascu- Vascular Dementia — condi- Don Horn and MSP Insp. George Sailer — from the district’s ciation. Taylor gave a presenta- lar dementia, dementia with lewy tions that block or reduce blood headquarters in Marquette — load donations during the post’s tion Thursday at the Ironwood bodies and frontotemporal annual food drive Friday. This year, the post collected 22,275 Carnegie Library called Under- dementia, according a pamphlet pounds of donations for Gogebic County food pantries. ALZHEIMER’S — page 5 TODAY INDEX Sunny — Details, page 2 Business . .16 75 cents Friday Today’s records Classifieds . .15-17 High 38 High 71.8 (1947) Comics . .14 Vol. 100, No. 286 Low 25 Low 27.6 (1980) Community . .3 Year ago today Precipitation Obituaries . .2 High 54 24 hours to 7 a.m. Opinion . .4 Low 39 Friday none Sports . .11-12 l 2 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2019 AREA/STATE THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD Obituaries TODAY SUNDAYY MONDAY TUESDAYTUESSDAY WEDNESDAY Thelma A. Pemble PARK FALLS, Wis. – Thelma A. She was preceded in death by her Pemble, 91, of Mercer, passed away on parents; grandparents; husband, Lyle; Few SnowS Few Snow Oct. 23, 2019, in Park Falls. siblings, George, Mitch, Vanard, Nor- Sunny Mostly CloudyClouudy Mostly Cloudy ShowShowerswers Showers Thelma was born on June 25, 1928, man, Jack, Marvin and Duke Babic, in Mercer, the daughter of Mike and Clara Allen, Eva Fosdick, Alice Watts 52° 34° 42° 26°266° 34° 25° 33° 23° 31° 21° Narrie (Schwartz) Babic. She attended and Mayme Babic in infancy. Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: Mercer grade schools. A memorial ser- 10-1710-17 mphmph S 66-11-11 mmphph WWNWNW 6-116-11 mphmph W 5-105-10 mphmph W 8-138-13 mphmph W She worked at Simpson Electric, vice will be held on Mercer Boat Factory, a candle factory Monday, Oct. 28, at Ontonagon LOCALL OUTLOOK 52/40 in Mercer and cleaned cabins in the Mercer United Todayy we will see sunny skies, high area. Methodist Church at Bergland tempetemperatureperature of 552°,2°, humidityy of 44%. Thelma loved baking cakes, craft- 11 a.m. with Rev. 52/36 Southh wind 10 to 17 mph. The record Wakefield Ironwood high ttemperature for today is 76° set ing, puzzles, music and fishing. Her Erwin Teichmiller Saxon 51/34 52/34 Marenisco in 191989.89. Expect partly cloudy skies specialty was her homemade pasties, officiating, preceded 54/35 tonightonight,ht, overnight low of 34°. Bessemer 51/34 and they were the best. She loved her by a visitation from Upson Hurley 51/35 Watersmeet dogs, Cindy and Tammy. 10 to 11 a.m. A light 52/33 SUNS AND MOON 52/34 50/33 She married Lyle Pemble on Nov. Thelma A. lunch will be held in Mercer 30, 1946. He preceded her in death. Pemble the church basement 51/32 1928 — 2019 Manitowish Thelma is survived by her children, immediately follow- 52/33 SunriseSunri . ...............................................................................se .........................................................................7:33 a.m.