FOG Cleans up Gile Flowage
Few snow showers Vote Nov. 7th, 2017 write in: High: 34 | Low: 27 | Details, page 2 Bill McDonald BESSEMER CITY COUNCIL # Experienced # Veteran # Community Minded Authorized and Paid for by Bill McDonald, 309 E. Silver St., Bessemer, MI 49911 DAILY GLOBE yourdailyglobe.com Friday, November 3, 2017 75 cents FOG cleans up BLACK RIVER HARBOR Gile Flowage GILE, Wis. — More than 400 about the state of the flowage. pounds of trash were removed “Although some islands were from the Gile Flowage during the not clean, most people are doing Friends of the Gile Flowage’s a good job of keeping the Gile recent fall clean-up. Flowage in good condition,” “With more people coming to Shackleford said. Iron County to discover the beau- His sister, Linnaea, 9, pre- tiful resource we have in the Gile ferred the islands with less Flowage, it’s important to keep it garbage. “I like Wedding Island, clean and pristine,” said FOG because it was clean,” she said. president Cathy Techtmann. The garbage was taken to the The clean-up has taken place landing at Gile Park, where the in the last month, according to city of Montreal had donated a Techtmann, and was capped off Dumpster for the garbage. with a pontoon boat visit to sev- “I would like to thank all of eral of the flowage’s islands to the FOG volunteers, many whom collect the garbage left there. went out on their own to partici- Volunteers traveled to Russ’ pate in the 2017 Gile Flowage Island, Twin Island, Wedding Fall Clean-up and to the city of Island, Big Island and Peterson’s Montreal, which donated Dump- Island, before traveling to the ster disposal for the collections,” Pence Park boat landing.
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