Local Holiday Concerts Set to Begin Tuesday As Christmas Approaches, Hurley’S Elementary and Mid- Concert at 10 A.M
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Partly cloudy DAYS ‘TIL 20 CHRISTMAS High: 44 | Low: 30 | Details, page 2 All Santas 15% OFF THE LEATHER & GIFT SHOP “Where Shopping’s Fun & Wrapping’s Free” 410 W. Lead St., Bessemer, MI • Ph. 667-0500 DAILY GLOBE yourdailyglobe.com Saturday, December 5, 2015 75 cents HOLIDAY PARADE Warm weather brings out big Jack Frost parade crowd By RALPH ANSAMI return to a bigger event. —Third: Gogebic County [email protected] There were dozens of horses Community Mental Health, IRONWOOD — With balmy and the HOPE animal shelter $1,000. December weather, Ironwood’s brought some dogs out, walked —Fourth: Bill Osterman, 21st Jack Frost parade on Friday by volunteers. $500. drew dozens of colorful floats, One of the highlights of the —Fifth: Ironwood Public Safe- scores of animals and thousands hour-long parade, dedicated to ty Department, $500. of spectators. long-time announcer Chuck Ger- —Sixth: Hampston family, Temperatures in the upper vasio, was a rousing performance $250. 30s brought out a crowd that was by the Ironwood Dance Compa- —Seventh: Kristin and Katie about five deep all along the ny, with about 30 young girls Holm, $250. length of Aurora Street. performing. —Eighth: Last Tangle Girls, Silvery Jack Frost, who bore a The marching shovel brigade $250. strong resemblance to Ironwood banged and scraped bare pave- —Ninth: Stanley Gresham, Public Safety Department officer ment along the way, as specta- $250. Matt Sterbenz, skipped along the tors watched from icy sidewalks. In conjunction with the route and posed for photos with At Hitt’s Fine Furniture store, parade, the downtown River Val- the children. owner Mary Hitt took a good- ley Bank is hosting a ginger- Katrina Leopold, of Ironwood, natured ribbing after winning bread house competition through brought a chair and her dog, the $2,000 second place prize in Dec. 11, open to public viewing. Indy, to the parade. Indy sat in the $100-a-ticket raffle that sup- For those who couldn’t get to her lap and watched the floats ports the parade. the Jack Frost parade, rebroad- and animals pass by. Leopold Neil Beckman won the $5,000 casts will be from Friday, Dec. said she came to the parade last first place prize. 11, through Monday, Dec. 21, year, liked it, and decided to Other prize winners were: nightly on Charter Channel 185. Ralph Ansami/Daily Globe COLORFUL DANCERS of all ages from the Ironwood Dance Company perform at Friday’s Jack Frost parade. IRON COUNTY Local holiday concerts set to begin Tuesday As Christmas approaches, Hurley’s elementary and mid- concert at 10 a.m. many holiday concerts begin to dle school band and choir con- ——— dot the calendars of area cert will be Tuesday, Dec. 15, at In Bessemer, the high school schools. 7 p.m. in the auditorium. The band concert will be Friday, The Ironwood fifth grade program will include bands from Dec. 11, at 7 p.m., in the A.D. band is first up with its concert fifth through eighth grade, as Johnston High School gym. planned for Tuesday at 6 p.m. in well as the School Singers and The Washington Elementary Luther L. Wright’s elementary junior high choir. vocal concert will be Friday, gym. The Hurley High School band Dec. 18 at 1 p.m. School officials Ironwood’s 6-12 grade band and choir concert is set for said the 9 a.m. rehearsal that concert will be Sunday, Dec. 13, Wednesday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m. in day is also open to those who at 3 p.m., at the Ironwood The- the auditorium. can’t attend in the afternoon. atre.. There are two days of elemen- ——— The Ironwood K-4 elementary tary Christmas concerts The Wakefield-Marenisco programs is set for Monday, planned in Hurley. The Mon- School will present its elemen- Dec. 14, at 5 p.m. in LLW’s high day/Wednesday pre-K, kinder- tary and high school concert on school gymnasium. garten and first grade classes Thursday, Dec. 17, at 6 p.m., in LLW’s middle school and will perform Monday, Dec. 21, at the gymnasium. high school choirs, as well as 1 p.m. ——— Accent!, will offer their Christ- The Tuesday/Thursday pre- The Watersmeet School mas concert twice on Wednes- K, second and third grade class- Christmas concert is scheduled day, Dec. 16, at 6 and 7:30 p.m., es will perform Tuesday, Dec. for Thursday, Dec. 17, at 6 p.m., at Theatre North. 22, at 9:30 a.m., followed by the ——— fourth, fifth and sixth graders’ CONCERTS — page 5 Richard Jenkins/Daily Globe ROB RUDE, a former director of response and recovery for Wisconsin Emergency Management, facilitates a discussion regarding Iron County’s mass care plan during a table-top session Friday at the Iron County Memorial Building. Among those attending the session, clockwise from left, are Jim Loeper, Rude, Darrell Petrusha, Karl Krall and Paul Samardich. Meyers hears opinions Iron County officials work about aging issues to develop mass care plan By TOM STANKARD “Iron County has the highest [email protected] percentage of elderly citizens in HURLEY — State Rep. Beth Meyers, D-Bayfield, the state of Wisconsin,” she said. By RICHARD JENKINS tornadoes or fires. that go along with opening up a listened to area residents voice their opinions about In the area of dementia, Kolson [email protected] The creation of a care plan is shelter — how do they get by the Alzheimer’s and dementia on Friday afternoon at the said her agency is going to be HURLEY — Officials from a required by the Center for Dis- roads, who pays, where’s the lia- Iron County Courthouse. working “diligently on improving number of Iron County agencies ease Control and Prevention bility, how do we communicate,” As an appointee of the Speakers Task Force on the system of care in the county. met Friday at the Iron County and the state, which provides said Rob Rude, a former director Alzheimer’s and Dementia, Meyers said she hopes “We’re moving forward and Memorial Building to partici- funding to the county to develop of response and recovery for the task force started by State Rep. Robin Vos to have approved an additional posi- pate in a table-top exercise to the plan. Wisconsin Emergency Manage- gather information will have a positive impact on the tion for ICHS,” she said. “We get develop a mass care plan for the The specific scenario Friday ment, who facilitated the discus- aging population. funds from the state through an county. involved a winter storm that sion. “You can use just about The STAD is bipartisan group of elected officials Beth Aging and Disability Resource Meyers The plan would be used in knocked out power in the Mer- any scenario that you want and from the Wisconsin Assembly that will look to Center. We formed a consortium of instances where the county cer area and blocked area roads. drive the responses.” improve and promote community-based resources Iron, Ashland, Bayfield, Sawyer needed to open up a temporary “The idea the was, what are Among those participating in and raise awareness, as well as address legal issues and Price counties. With that, in January, we’re shelter, Iron County Health they going to have to do to open the table-top exercise were and determine possible state participation in treat- bringing on one more person to help with the ADRC Officer Zona Wick explained, up a shelter? Everybody says ment and research. and could cover a range of emer- ‘great idea to open up a shelter,’ Carolyn Kolson, director of Iron County Human Ser- gencies including ice storms, but it’s all the ancillary things vices, said aging issues “are at the forefront in Iron County. PLAN — page 5 AGING — page 5 C O N T A C T U S WEATHER INSIDE INDEX TODAY Nine-pointer bagged Business . .14 Daily Globe Inc. Friday Precipitation Vol. 96, Ed. 286 118 E. McLeod Ave. High 51 To 7 a.m. Classifieds . .12-13 Partly cloudy Buck brothers have success. Comics . .11 P.O. Box 548 —Details, page 2 Low 25 Friday none Ironwood, MI 49938 Year ago today Snowfall —Outdoors, page 8 Community . .3 High 23 To 7 a.m. Obituaries . .2 yourdailyglobe.com Low -3 Friday none Today’s records Snow depth 4 in. Opinion . .4 906-932-2211 High 50 (1941) Season total 16.6 in. Sports . .9-10 Low -11 (1991) Last year 92.5 in. 2 l SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2015 AREA / STATE THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR IRONWOOD Obituaries TODAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Irene Florence Mildren IRONWOOD, Mich. — Irene Florence Mil- wasn’t to be taken for grant- dren, 89, of Lake Road, Ironwood Township, ed and it mattered what hap- passed on to be with her loving Savior, Jesus pened to the world and its Partly Cloudy Mostly Cloudy Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Christ, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2015, in Iron- people. wood. She is survived by two 44º 30º 40º 23º 41º 29º 40º 29º 40º 31º Irene was born on Dec. 20, 1925, in Iron- sons and their wives, James Winds: 10-15 mph S Winds: 5 mph SW Winds: 5-7 mph SW Winds: 5-10 mph SW Winds: 5-10 mph SW wood, to Henry Nestor and Hilma Johanna Roy (Ellen) Mildren, Iron- (Syrjala) Hautala. She grew up with loving wood, and Ronald Ross Ontonagon LOCAL OUTLOOK parents, along with her four loving brothers. (Lisa) Mildren, Land 49/33 She was their only daughter and grew up in O’Lakes, Wis.; six daugh- -*./0%+1%+"22%311%4/5620%72*8.0%39"13%+"6$%/%$"#$% 61:415/6851%*;%<<=>%$8:"."60%*;%'?@&%A*86$%+"B.% the Christian faith.