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Call (906) 932-4449 Ironwood, MI Detroit basketball Griffin, Drummond lead Pistons Redsautosales.com to rout of Wizards 132-102 SPORTS • 7 Since 191 9 DAILY GLOBE Friday, December 27, 2019 Partly cloudy yourdailyglobe.com | High: 28 | Low: 22 | Details, page 2 RIDE THE ICE County may Pro Vintage consider economic snowmobile coordinator racing to begin By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] BESSEMER – The Finance, Budgeting and Auditing Commit- IRONWOOD – The Ironwood tee of the Gogebic County Board Snowmobile Olympus will be of Commissioners on Thursday held over the next two weekends considered a possible economic with the oval ice racing at the recovery opportunity. Gogebic County Fairgrounds, During the committee meet- 648 West Cloverland Drive. ing prior to the full board meet- The Pro Vintage Racing will ing, the discussion focused on a be held this Saturday from 8 a.m. recommendation of the Michigan to 5 p.m. There are 39 vintage Economic Development Council class races that run the gamut of to hire a county economic recov- super stock, super modified, IFS ery coordinator. single track suspension and The idea was one solution other categories for older from meetings following the clo- machines. sure of the Ojibway Correctional The snowmobiles are pre- Facility, said Juliane Giackino, 1985 but many will run over 100 county administrator. The MEDC mph, said Jim Gribble, chairman would fund the position through of the Friends of the Gogebic a grant process of the U.S. County Fair, the nonprofit orga- Department of Agriculture. nization that organizes the Olym- Commissioner Joe Bonovetz pus. said that before the county “There are stock classes and Tom LaVenture/Daily Globe should consider the economic modified classes,” Gribble said. A TRACKED vehicle driver plows snow on the inside of the oval track at the Gogebic County Fair- ground on Thursday. The track is being turned to ice for two weekends of snowmobile racing for the Ironwood Snowmobile Olympus. RACING — page 5 GCC — page 5 BEST OF 2019 CATCHING AIR Hurley Northstars Hurley K-12 School chooses new mascot Editor’s note: The Daily Globe on an emotional issue that is counting down the Gogebic would have divided the com- Range’s top five stories of 2019 munity. each day through Tuesday, New Stories of “At a time when there are so Year’s Eve. At No. 4, is the Hurley many great things taking place School District’s adoption of a the Year in our district, the mascot new mascot – the Northstars. would become the one thing for which we would be known,” By TOM LAVENTURE the announcement said. “We [email protected] did not want that for our stu- HURLEY, Wis. – The Hurley dents.” Northstars were born in June The school board’s Feb. 18 as the school district selected a meeting was moved to the audi- 2019 torium to accommodate several new mascot. It was a necessary but painful process to retire the community members who controversial “Midgets” name voiced concern about the sud- that had been a source of pride den decisions of the board. Submitted photo and tradition for generations. School Board president Joe D’KOTA AND Lexi Engler, of Mercer, catch air Sunday at Blackjack. The most recent process to Simonich lamented the inflam- Norm Tesch contributed the photo. replace the “Midgets” started in matory rhetoric on social the fall of 2018. By June, the media around the decision and Hurley School Board had apologized for what he called approved a special rebranding “missteps” in the process. Superior Snowshoe Walkers committee’s recommendation In the end, the decision to change the name and logo to move forward together into the stood. The district got the com- “Northstars” after it was new year.” munity involved by asking the excursions to begin While some in the commu- approved by the student body public to join the students and By LARRY HOLCOMBE ing lot of the Michigan Welcome nity were upset with the school and staff. staff in making submissions of [email protected] Center, although you can access board’s entertaining the idea of “Change is always difficult mascot and logo recommenda- IRONWOOD – The Superior it from the Riverside Cemetery. changing the mascot in 2018, and it’s especially hard to tions in its rebranding effort. Snowshoe Walkers are preparing “There’s a half-mile loop, a one- others joined the fervor in Jan- adjust to when things are a cer- Leslie Kolesar and Andrew for another season of weekly mile loop and a one and a half- uary of this year when the tain way for many years and Laurin ran as write-in candi- excursions on local trails. mile loop,” said Davey. “You can board decided to abandon the then a change occurs,” Kevin dates and defeated school “With all the snow we’ve had, go about two miles without idea of a ballot question in the Genisot, school administrator board incumbents Michael we’ve been out already a few backtracking too much.” April 2 election asking the pub- told the Daily Globe Thursday. Fontecchio and Rick Swartz in times,” said Sam Davey, a The trail skirts the Montreal lic to decide if the mascot name The goal of the school is the April 2 school board elec- spokesman for the group. “We River and is on city and state should change. Instead the always to be connected to the tion. Both had stated that they did a little work, checking the property. Davey recalled a confer- board removed the mascot community, he said. The com- ran in part because they felt the Michigan Welcome Center trail ence call with representatives of question from the ballot, voted munity is “amazingly support- community had lost its voice the other day. There’s no short- several state agencies when he to remove the “Midgets” as the ive” no matter the hurdles and with the board. age of snow.” was pitching the idea of the trail. school mascot and directed the seems to always come together The school rebranding com- As in past years, the group’s “They were pretty confused administration to start a to support the students in the mittee presented a list of 78 first event will be the Mark Fit- about what we were proposing. A rebranding process to be com- end. mascot name and logo sugges- ting Annual Memorial Walk on trail? Where? But in the end they pleted before the fall 2019-20 “Things could have been tions from staff, students and Jan. 8, starting at Michigan Wel- said, ‘Go for it.’” school year. done differently throughout community members at the come Center on Cloverland Drive Davey said the trail is an asset The school board later this process and there’s been May 21 school board meeting. in Ironwood. The walk starts at to the community, right off the released a statement on the enough discussion about that, The committee narrowed the 6:30 p.m. highway with parking available, mascot change. The decision but now we’re focused on mov- list to 13 names including Fitting was a local business- but there are many fine trails in was in large part to avoid the ing forward and doing what we “49ers,” “Blizzards,” “Heat,” man and silent sports enthusiast. the area, and the group enjoys distraction from ongoing pres- do best – educating kids,” “Hematites,” “Lakers,” “North- Davey said the Welcome Cen- visiting them each year. sure on the school and the stu- Genisot said. “We have an stars,” “Phoenix,” “Rangers,” ter trail is in good shape, adding He said the Miners Memorial dents about changing the amazing school, staff, students the Sisu Dirt Bike Crew did some Park Trail has about three miles and community and that name, the announcement said. trail tending during fair weather should be our focus as we all The decision also avoided delay HURLEY — page 5 months to keep things nice. The trail begins and ends in the park- SNOWSHOE — page 5 TODAY INDEX Partly cloudy — Details, page 2 Business . .11 75 cents Classifieds . .10-11 Thursday Today’s records Snowfall Comics . .9 Vol. 101, No. 31 High 37 High 46 (2011) 24 hours to 7 a.m. Community . .3 Low 28 Low -24 (1964) Thursday none Snow depth 15 in. Obituaries . .2 Year ago today Precipitation Season total 82.9 in. Opinion . .4 High 32 24 hours to 7 a.m. Last year 54.4 in. Sports . .7-8, 12 Low 22 Thursday 0.02 in. l 2 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2019 AREA / NATION THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD Daycare owner Obituaries arrested after TODAY SATURDAYSATURDAAY SUNDAY MONDAYMONNDAY TUESDAY kids found Rosemary Lewis behind false wall IRONWOOD, Mich. – Rosemary Lewis, 90, of COLORADO SPRINGS, Ironwood, passed away unexpect- Colo. (AP) – A Colorado Scattered woman accused of hiding Partly Cloudy Snow LikelyLikeely Rain Likely Snow Likely Snow edly on Dec. 25, 2019. 26 children behind a false She was preceded in death by wall at her daycare center 28° 22° 32° 24°244° 36° 26° 28° 18° 20° 14° her husband, Lloyd; and a son, was arrested for investiga- Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: Lloyd Jr. tion of misdemeanor child 8-118-11 mphmph WSWWSW 8 mphmph SESE 1111 mphmph ENEENE 1111 mphmph S 1010 mmphph WSWWSW Rosemary was a loving wife, abuse, police said Thurs- mother, grandmother and great- day. Ontonagon LOCALL OUTLOOK grandmother. Carla Faith, 58, was 34/28 She is survived by a son, Charles arrested Monday in Col- Todayy we will see partly cloudy orado Springs on suspi- Bergland skies, highg of 228°,8°, humidityy of 76%.