GOCAA Fundraiser Includes Snow Golf on Sunday Lake
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Call (906) 932-4449 Ironwood, MI Pro Vintage snowmobile racing Vintage sleds zoom around Ironwood track Redsautosales.com SPORTS • 12 DAILY GLOBE Monday, February 11, 2019 Mostly cloudy yourdailyglobe.com | High: 24 | Low: 15 | Details, page 2 HOLE-IN-ONE Community GOCAA fundraiser supports HIT at cabaret includes snow golf fundraiser By RICHARD JENKINS on Sunday Lake [email protected] IRONWOOD – The com- By P.J. GLISSON Jacobson as Post Comman- munity got dressed up and [email protected] der Jack Lillar sat nearby came out to the Ironwood WAKEFIELD – A snow eating his lunch. Memorial Building Saturday golf event on Sunday Lake “They donated the hall night to support the Historic was offered for the first for us,” said Jacobson. Ironwood Theatre at the Big time as part of a Saturday “They cooked for us.” HIT Cabaret annual fundrais- fundraiser for the Gogebic- Jacobson said the day er. Ontonagon Community started with a pancake “I think people have gotten Action Agency. breakfast and progressed to know this event as a great “This is our first annual to a lunch with chili and dress-up event, great selec- snow golf,” said event orga- hot dogs. She said Honor tions of beer and wine … great nizer Luan Jacobson, who Society students from prizes and raffles,” said Zona said the agency was part- Wakefield and Bessemer Wick, the theatre board presi- nering for the day with the schools helped to serve dent. “I think it’s gotten to be Gogebic Range Health meals, pour coffee and a popular event.” Foundation. “We never clean up. This is the third year the have done it before.” Anyone inside could theatre’s largest fundraiser She said the new event view snow golf players has been held at the Iron- replaced the former frozen through the back windows wood Memorial Building, rundra, which until last of the VFW. “It’s sort of like according to Wick. year had been held in con- playing miniature golf,” “I think we’ve gotten better junction with Ironwood’s said Jacobson. “There’re every year,” Wick said. Jack Frost Festival. five holes to go around the She said organizers settled “People raced five miles course.” on a cabaret-themed event, in the snow,” Jacobson said Jacobson’s husband, which Wick said will contin- of the rundra, and they Ron Jacobson, directed the ue going forward rather than didn’t let double-digit wind golf players on what every- a new theme each year. chills stop them. Even so, one agreed was a pleasant “Cabaret has this fun, she added that the unpre- winter day. “I’m just volun- party connotation,” Wick dictability of weather was teering,” he said. “I helped said. the primary reason for to set up the course.” The event featured a vari- exchanging the rundra for He said sponsors were ety of raffles and drawings, snow golf. associated with each flag, hors d’oeuvres and a number Saturday’s fundraiser and players who got their P.J. Glisson/Daily Globe also included options in ball closest to each flag RON JACOBSON tries for a hole in one during Saturday’s snow golf event on the hall of Wakefield’s Sunday Lake. Jacobson helped to set up the course as part of a fundraiser for HIT — page 5 VFW Post 9084. “The VFW the Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency. More options were has been wonderful,” said available within the hall of Wakefield’s VFW Post 9084. GOLF — page 5 Wisconsin woman PURSUIT RACING killed in Carey snowmobile crash JON CAREY, Wis. – A Wiscon- MORENO, of sin woman is dead after she Minneapolis, was involved in a snowmobile skis toward crash in the town of Carey Fri- the finish line day. of the first leg The Iron County Sheriff’s of the Turtle Department received a report River Pursuit of a snowmobile crash on Saturday at Island Lake Road near Gerry the MECCA Road at 2:50 p.m. Friday. Ski Trails in A Hartland woman, 43, Mercer. The was driving a snowmobile on second leg of Island Lake Road .5 miles the race took west of Gerry Road, accord- place Sunday ing to an ICSD news release, at the Win- Man Trails in Manitowish CRASH — page 5 Waters. The fastest over- all time won the race. More charges Richard Jenkins/ brought against Daily Globe Hurley man By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY – A Hurley man with several active cases in Turtle River racers brave cold for inaugural event Iron County is now also want- ed on an additional 29 By RICHARD JENKINS Man it was five or six above,” said and another 11-kilometer Ironwood, won the men’s event, charges, after Iron County [email protected] Mike Shouldice, the president of freestyle race Sunday at the Win- with an overall time of 1:09:44.8. District Attorney Matt MERCER, Wis. – Tempera- the MECCA Ski Trails in Mercer Man Trails in Manitowish Waters. Lisa Nadler, of Chicago, was the Tingstad recently filed a sixth tures may have been below zero and one of the race organizers. The two times were combined fastest woman with an overall case in Iron County Court. early Saturday, but the mercury “The snow we got last week to determine an overall winner. time of 1:38:32.1. Andrew R. Zaleski, 38, is rose by race time and the com- allowed the grooming crew to “It was fantastic. We had folks Shouldice thanked the volun- charged with one count of petitors took off without a hitch just do a fantastic job. It groomed from Minneapolis, folks from teers and community support stalking, domestic abuse; 14 at this weekend’s inaugural Tur- up firm so the skate-skiers had a Chicago, all over Wisconsin; a lot that made the event possible, not- counts of felony bail jumping tle River Pursuit cross country nice flat bed for skating and the of them had never experienced ing there was almost a 1:1 ratio and 14 counts of violating a ski race. classic skiers had a nice firm set the MECCA and WinMan trails of volunteers and competitors. foreign order of protection “We lucked out. While the of tracks to ski in.” before and they were just so pos- “The visitors to the Mercer from Gogebic County in weather was cold – it was 29 The pursuit-style race took itive about the snow conditions, and Manitowish Waters commu- Michigan. below I think Saturday morning place over two days, with skiers the grooming, the event itself,” nity were just overwhelmed with The stalking charge carries at 6 a.m. – by 11 a.m. (when the completing an 11-kilometer clas- Shouldice said. “It was wonder- race started) it was just above sic, striding skiing course Satur- ful, we had a ball.” zero. This morning at the Win- day at MECCA trails in Mercer Local Jonathon Rulseh, of RACE CHARGES — page 5 TODAY INDEX Mostly cloudy — Details, page 2 Classifieds . .10-11 75 cents Comics . .9 Sunday Today’s records Snowfall Community . .3 Vol. 100, No. 69 High 17 High 53 (1977) 48 hours to 7 a.m. Education . .6 Low 4 Low -33 (1988) Sunday trace Snow depth 19 in. Obituaries . .2 Year ago today Precipitation Season total 113.2 in. Opinion . .4 High 18 48 hours to 7 a.m. Last year 118.2 in. Low -12 Sunday trace Sports . .7-8, 12 l 2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2019 AREA / NATION THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD Nancy Pelosi gets Obituaries rock star treatment TODAY TUESDAYTUESDAAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAYTHURSSDAY FRIDAY at Clive Davis gala BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. April (Anderson) Sterling (AP) – The audience at Clive Davis’ white-hot gala FARMINGTON, Minn. – April (Anderson) Ster- included Barbra Streisand, Snow ling, 38, of Farmington, passed away Saturday Joni Mitchell and Kareem Scattered Mostly Cloudy Snow LikelyLikeely Showers Isolatedd Snow Abdul-Jabbar, but it was Snow evening, Feb. 9, 2019. She was a pedestrian struck Likely by an SUV on Hwy. 3, in Farmington. 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