Call (906) 932-4449 Motor on Ironwood, MI Tigers lose to Redsautosales.com Toronto SPORTS • 10 D AILY GLOBE Saturday, July 20, 2019 Showers likely yourdailyglobe.com | High: 78 | Low: 55 | Details, page 2 ONE SMALL STEP Remembering the moon landing By LARRY HOLCOMBE experiments, gathered samples are some of their responses. home in Cicero, Ill. He was mar- its right away, usually the [email protected] and snapped some iconic photos. ——— ried with young children. advances that are made are good On July 20, 1969, time stood Many who watched were fear- Percy and Mary Smith of Iron- “I believe we had a color tele- for the population.” still long enough for much of the ful of the journey and wondered wood, were living in Superior, vision at the time. We had guests “I remember feeling sorry for nation, if not the world, to if they would return safely, but Wis., with young children at the over, maybe a half dozen. Every- Collins because he couldn’t go on remember today, 50 years later, there is no denying an overall time as he was in graduate school body was amazed,” he said. the moon, he had to stay behind,” what they were doing the feeling of pride in America that studying school administration. “They watched with rapt atten- he added. moment Neil Armstrong stepped flowed from that moment. It had “I watched it on TV. I was tion and saying ‘oh my gosh, we ——— onto the surface of the moon. been a space race won, a race amazed,” said Percy. “I kept on did it.’ Everybody was really Sam Davey of Ironwood It was a momentous occasion, declared by President John F. thinking how they determined happy about it. We were glad remembers watching it at a one that many thought impossi- Kennedy, a race against the Sovi- where to land, how to land. I kept America had made it up there.” friend’s house in Ironwood on a ble – a thing of science fiction, if ets and against time, as Kennedy on waiting for something to go ——— summer evening. “A bunch of us not fairy tales. But on that Sun- had promised a man on the wrong, but they had it figured Richard Bouvette said he felt high school kids were sitting day evening, at 9:56 Central moon by the end of the decade. out.” proud as he watched it at home in around watching it – on the floor Time, many were glued to their According to the Associated Mary said with little kids she Marenisco. “John Kennedy said and on the couch – watching televisions as Armstrong stepped Press the next day an estimated didn’t have a lot of time to watch we were going to do it and we did what took place because it was off the lunar module and spoke 500 million people around the it, but I thought it was wonderful. it,” he said. pretty amazing at the time.” those immortal words: “That’s world watched the moon landing “I remember what they said He was teaching science and They followed the progress one small step for man, one giant on television and “had a ringside about ‘a giant leap for mankind.’ math in Marenisco at the time step by step. leap for mankind.” seat to man’s greatest adventure. That stuck in my mind.” and was intrigued on a scientific “We were stunned that they Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin soon It was unforgettable.” ——— level. “It made sense to me. Any actually did it, because every part John Sendra of Mercer remem- joined him on the surface of the The Daily Globe reached out time you have scientific technolo- bers watching it on television moon where they planted the to a few folks this week and asked gy doing something, even though with a group of friends at his American flag, set up some them what they remember. Here you probably didn’t see the prof- 50 YEARS — page 8 RIBBON CUTTING Registration begins Sunday for national boat races you haven’t seen it before, it’s n APBA event set interesting.” for Sunday Lake The event is free and will By P.J. GLISSON include food and beverage ven- [email protected] dors. WAKEFIELD – All systems Siira added, “These racers are go for the 2019 Stock and come from all 50 states. A lot of Junior National Championships them camp here, but a lot of to be held on Sunday Lake next them use motels too.” week. The first to arrive this year The week-long event is was Mitchell Sampson of Lake authorized by the American Stevens, Wash., who set up in Power Boat Association, which Eddy Park on Thursday. is the governing body for “It’s been a long drive – national outboard motor races. 2,000 miles,” Sampson told the The Badger State Outboard Globe Friday. “The last time I Association in Wisconsin sub- was here was in 1988.” He Submitted photo added with a broad smile that OFFICIALS GATHERED Thursday to cut the ribbon and celebrate the new plant for Waupaca mitted the bid for the local the trip brings with it “a lot of Foundry in Ironwood’s industrial park. Pictured, from left are John Wiesbrock, Executive Vice races, and the Wakefield-Besse- nostalgia.” President, Waupaca Foundry; Michael Nikolai, President & CEO, Waupaca Foundry; Toshiaki mer Rotary Club is providing Sampson said he’ll race in Higashihara, President and CEO of Waupaca’s parent company, Hitachi Metals; Michigan State local sponsorship. Representative Greg Markkanen; Michigan State Senator Ed McBroom; Jeff Mason, CEO of Michi- “It’s fun to watch,” said local gan Economic Development Corporation; Doug Kuiper, Vice President of Marketing, MEDC and race coordinator John Siira. “If Ironwood Mayor Annette Burchell. RACES — page 5 Waupaca Foundry opens By STEVE NEWMAN The ribbon-cutting was high- Facility in the area. Waupaca [email protected] lighted by words from Waupaca took notice and began to investi- IRONWOOD – On Thurs- CEO Mike Nikolai and VP of gate. day, Waupaca Foundry held a Marketing/Sales/Supply Chain Waupaca found quick and ribbon-cutting for the opening John Wiesbrock. Wiesbrock willing help to make the possi- of their seventh manufacturing stated that the company came to bility of a plant happen. “What facility, and the first in this area, Ironwood, because “like many brought Waupaca Foundry to in the Ironwood Industrial Park. manufacturers, we started to Ironwood was the community A host of dignitaries attended feel the effects of a full labor responsiveness, support from the event, which celebrated the market and Baby Boomers retir- MEDC, and the existing build- cooperation of area, city and ing. So we started a path to ing (which was acquired in state entities along with man- explore locations with high December 2018)–because we agement at Waupaca to bring quality, available pool of labor quickly realized that locating a the plant here. and ended up in the Upper finishing plant in Ironwood The facility represents an Peninsula of Michigan.” could be done rapidly,” Wies- investment of $4.3 million and According to Jim Luedtke, brock said. will create 61 new jobs, 42 of chief operating officer of Superi- Waupaca ended up moving P.J. Glisson/Daily Globe which are already working on or Waters of Marenisco, Wau- into the building located at 1760 ONE OF NEXT week’s racers demonstrates on Friday the kneel- site. As a result of the expan- paca first took notice of the area Liberty Avenue, which was orig- ing form he will use in the 2019 Stock and Junior National sion, Waupaca Foundry was by word-of-mouth “neighbor-to- inally built in the industrial Championships on Sunday Lake in Wakefield. Registration for awarded a $1.2 million Michi- neighbor” contact. An investor park as a “speculation building” the week-long event by the American Power Boat Association gan Business Development Pro- in Superior Waters met a mem- to attract future businesses, will begin Sunday at Wakefield VFW Post 9084 on U.S. 2. gram performance-based grant. ber of Waupaca management by according to Ironwood city man- Shown here is Mitchell Sampson and his wife, Julie, of Lake Waupaca Foundry employs chance and told him of the ager Scott Erickson. According Stevens, Wash. Sampson will use his Darneille boat to compete 4,500 employees at seven loca- abundance of workers available in the fastest D-Stock Hydro category. The photo art on the tions throughout the United in the area, even before the clos- boat is of him competing here in 1988. States. ing of the Ojibway Correctional FOUNDRY — page 5 TODAY INDEX Showers likely — Details, page 2 Business . .14 75 cents Friday Today’s records Classifieds . .13-15 High 82 High 96 (1901) Comics . .12 Vol. 100, No. 204 Low 73 Low 39 (1966) Community . .3 Year ago today Precipitation Obituaries . .2 High 80 24 hours to 7 a.m. Opinion . .4 Low 60 Friday 0.21 in. Sports . .9-10 l 2 SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019 AREA / NATION THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD Obituaries TODAY SUNDAYY MONDAY TUESDAYTUESSDAY WEDNESDAY Valerie Kay ‘Val’ Reed BESSEMER, Mich. – Valerie Kay greatly missed by “Val” Reed, 51, of Bessemer, passed those she leaves Showers Mostly SunnySunnny Sunny Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny away peacefully at her home on July behind. Likely 15, 2019. She was preceded 78° 55° 73° 57°577° 74° 59° 78° 61° 81° 60° She was born on March 2, 1968, to in death by her Lawrence and Karina (Mandelin) father, Lawrence Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: Beauchamp in Wakefield.