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Call (906) 932-4449 Ironwood, MI NBA basketball Embiid stars as 76ers Redsautosales.com beat Bucks 121-109 SPORTS • 9 Since 191 9 DAILY GLOBE Thursday, December 26, 2019 Cloudy/areas of fog yourdailyglobe.com | High: 37 | Low: 26 | Details, page 2 HOLIDAY SPIRIT Families come together for festivities, fun By TOM LAVENTURE around the country took to the [email protected] slopes of the region. Many said IRONWOOD – Christmas is a it's an annual tradition. time when many friends and fam- Katie Papanicholas, of Chica- ilies gather from near and far, go, said she and her husband and with many returning home for a four boys come here each Christ- visit. Traditions often arise – like mas to meet the rest of her rela- attending worship, gathering for tives from Milwaukee who also meals and even last minute shop- come up to create a group of fam- ping for gifts to be exchanged. ilies who rent houses close to Tuesday – Christmas Eve – each other for a ski holiday get- was busy with last minute shop- away. pers visiting local stores up until The tradition started around most of them closed earlier than 30 years ago when she was just a usual to allow employees to girl. Her grandmother brought spend time with families. the families up and now the tra- Ron and Mary Ann Niemi, of dition is continued with her own Ironwood, were among several parents. last minute shoppers at Dun- “We can bring our families ham's in Ironwood in the early together and just all be in one afternoon. The two said they spot, celebrating the holidays planned to go to church later that together, when it would be just so day and get together with family hard with the kids,” Papanicholas to celebrate with dinner and gifts said. “We're able to all get togeth- on Christmas Day. er and be trapped together in one “It's nice,” said Ron Niemi house. The kids have an activity said. to do with skiing and we send The weather has been really them out when they're bored good, Mary Ann Niemi said. It after unwrapping presents and makes it easier on everyone if doing all the holiday stuff.” weather is not a factor on Christ- The children woke up to Santa mas, she said. handing out gifts on Christmas “We don't have to brave the morning. They ate breakfast and cold,” she said. hit the slopes together. For Christmas Eve and Christ- “It's a fun tradition,” she said. mas Day the traffic remained “It's four days over Christmas lighter than usual locally. A few and it's super fun.” Tom LaVenture/Daily Globe businesses were open, but most HAZEL HERMES, 3, of Duluth, gets a skiing lesson from Santa on the Powderhorn Mountain bunny were closed. hill Wednesday. In this case, Santa is her father, Tanner Hermes. But, groups of families from HOLIDAY — page 16 STORIES OF THE YEAR Valliere murder defendants continue to make headlines Editor’s note: The Daily Globe degree intentional homicide is counting down the Gogebic and two counts of aiding a Range’s top five stories of 2019 felon in August 2018 for partic- each day through Tuesday, New Stories of ipating in the beating and Year’s Eve. The editorial depart- shooting death of Valliere Jr. ment staff sat down and came up Along with Lussier’s sen- with its annual list, naming the the Year tencing, the remaining two co- continued convictions and sen- defendants pleaded guilty to tencings in Iron County Court of charges against them. those involved in the late 2017 Evan T. Oungst, 29, of Arbor Submitted photo murder of Wayne M. Valliere Jr. Vitae, pleaded guilty to second A BOHEMIAN waxwing was one of the pleasant surprises of Satur- as the fifth-place story of the past degree reckless homicide by day’s 22nd annual Christmas Bird Count according to organizers year. omission in one case against Jerry and Christy Edde. 20182019 in a remote area of Iron him, as well as seven counts of By RICHARD JENKINS County. harboring or aiding a felon and [email protected] Prosecutors say the five co- four counts of delivery of a pre- 22nd annual Christmas Bird HURLEY – The defendants defendants drove Valliere into scription drug in a seperate charged with the murder of a Iron County and shot him on case related to the murder in Lac du Flambeau man in 2017 Dec. 22, 2017, depositing the May. Count held on first day of winter continued to make headlines body off a seldom-used road The final defendant, Curtis By JERRY EDDE evening grosbeaks, red cross- throughout 2019. north of Mercer. A. Wolfe, 28, of Lac du Flam- Special to the Globe bills, bohemian waxwings, com- Although the defendants The body was recovered beau, entered no-contest pleas The tiny birds were perched mon redpolls, and pine siskins. authorities say actually shot behind a berm, hidden off to being a party to the crime of on a limb hanging over Planter Indeed, none of these species Wayne Valliere Jr. on Dec. 22, Swamp Creek Road, near the second degree reckless homi- Creek Road and I could see the had shown up at my feeders or 2017 were sentenced to life in end of Moose Lake Road. cide by omission, being a party distinct dark “cheek patch” on any of the feeders of my small prison in 2018, two other co- Lussier’s brother, James, 21, to the crime of hiding a corpse, the females. I wrote PUFI (purple cadre of Christmas bird counters. defendants took plea agree- was sentenced to 15 years in being a felon in possession of a finch) on my scratch pad, when In addition to the “irruptive” ments and another was sen- prison and another 15 years of weapon, and being a party to a suddenly, they all flew down on birds that migrate long distances tenced in 2019. extended supervision, along crime of harboring or aiding a the road for some unknown when food sources become low Richard F.A. Allen, 29, and with another eight years of pro- felon. “treat.” in winter, there is another group, Joseph D. Lussier, 28, were bation to be served after the Wolfe is scheduled to be Sure enough I could then see the short-distance (sometimes convicted by a jury of murder first sentence on Jan. 31. sentenced Jan. 22, according to the deep purplish-red on the called partial) migrants, who rou- and hiding a corpse in Val- Lussier, of Woodruff, plead- online court records, while breast of the males thus confirm- tinely move south a short dis- liere’s death in August. Val- ed guilty to being a party to Oungst is scheduled to be sen- ing my identification. tance when local food supplies liere’s body was found Jan. 1, conspiracy to commit first- tenced Jan. 27. This was our 22nd Christmas dwindle. This group includes the Bird Count on Saturday and it American goldfinch who were was the first day of winter. It cer- surprisingly absent this year Wakefield council defers decision on trail group tainly looked like it, with the from my winter feeders and the snow piled high all around us. feeders of others. I believe this By P.J. GLISSON Manager Rob Brown drafted at of working to create about three Purple finches usually migrate group simply are escaping the [email protected] the request of SRTA members. miles of trails in the area for- south of their breeding grounds very early heavy snows we are WAKEFIELD – The Wake- As Brown explained in a merly known as Fink location in in Canada, but this year it had experiencing, and possibly the field City Council voted Monday related communiqué to council Section 10, east of Sunday Lake. been predicted that most would empty feeders they are finding evening to refer the continuing members, the city so far has not “The city is in a precarious remain in the North because because folks cannot reach them status of the Split Rock Trail engaged in any formal terms position regarding the Split large seed crops of black ash were through the deep snow. Association to the Planning with SRTA, which officially available in the provinces. This Commission. formed as a nonprofit corpora- was true for all “irruptive At issue is a lease that City tion in 2019 after several years species” such as pine and WAKEFIELD — page 5 BIRDS — page 16 TODAY INDEX Cloudy/areas of fog — Details, page 2 Celebrations . .7 75 cents Classifieds . .13-15 Thursday Today’s records Snowfall Comics . .11-12 Vol. 101, No. 30 High 36 High 52 (1994) 48 hours to 7 a.m. Community . .3 Low 31 Low -22 (2000) Thursday none Snow depth 16 in. Obituaries . .6 Year ago today Precipitation Season total 82.9 in. Opinion . .4 High 24 48 hours to 7 a.m. Last year 51.9 in. Sports . .9-10 Low 12 Thursday none l 2 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2019 NATION / WORLD THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD TODAY FRIDAYY SATURDAY SUNDAYSUNDAY MONDAY Cloudy Scattered Scatteredered Scattered Partly CloudyClouudy Areas of Fog Snow SnowSnoow Snow 37° 26° 28° 22°222° 30° 24° 31° 22° 24° 17° Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: 8-148-14 mphmph SSWSSW 8-118-11 mphmph WSWWSW 6-96-9 mphmph ESEESE 11-1511-15 mphmph NENE 1111 mphmph WNWWNW Ontonagon LOCALL OUTLOOK 41/31 Todayy we will see cloudy skies with Bergland areas of fog,g highg of 37°,37°, humidityy of 39/27 91%.