Partly cloudy High: 63 | Low: 40 | Details, page 2 DAILY GLOBE yourdailyglobe.com Saturday, May 13, 2017 75 cents ‘TONIGHT IS DEDICATED TO YOU’ Gogebic Community College holds 83rd commencement By IAN MINIELLY tional students tend to not be full time [email protected] or between the ages of 18-24. The stu- IRONWOOD — Gogebic Community dent has frequently already held a job College president Jim Lorenson, in his for an extended period of time, poten- welcoming remarks before introducing tially already raised a family or at least John Lupino, chairperson, for the 83rd is well on the way to raising a family. Or commencement in GCC history, said to is an adult just looking for a different the assembled students filling the career path and using an education to lindquist Center, “Tonight is dedicated achieve it. to you.” Seeing the wide variety of graduates The production required to get the Friday night before and during com- right people on stage, the faculty in two mencement, brought back the effort the lines for the graduates to navigate while school’s board and Ryon List, Dean of shuffling students through this same Instruction, are putting forth to make tunnel consisting of faculty, put the GCC available and worthwhile to people emphasis on the graduates and kept the seeking an education that transfers to a procession moving forward. follow on college or into an immediate One cannot say kids graduating when career. discussing college graduation, as many Marcia Long, the guest speaker, non-traditional students return to col- pointed out the rarified air the gradu- leges across the county every year for ates would be breathing at the conclu- additional job training, career advance- sion of the evening, when she pointed ment, or just plain old learning for the out less than 7 percent of the world has sake of learning. a college degree. Not only that, Long The National Center for Education took it closer to home and said only 34 Statistics shows large increases in stu- percent of americans hold college Ian Minielly/Daily Globe dents labeled nontraditional attending degrees, so the graduates have some- GCC GRADUATES coming out of the faculty tunnel and making the turn towards their seats on Friday at the Lindquist Center on the colleges across the country Nontradi- thing to truly hang their hats on. campus of Gogebic Community College. The graduates were part of the 83rd commencement in GCC history. O P E N H O U S E Boxes among us: Drug collection By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Range Suicide Prevention Council donated boxes to different com- munity buildings to help take old and or unused prescription and over-the-counter drugs off the streets and out of area medicine cabinets. Each donated box cost about $800 and according to council spokesman Pat Gallinagh. He said he got the box idea from Zona Wick when she was direc- tor of the Iron County Health Department in Hurley. Gallinagh said the council sees the boxes as a way to com- bat a key suicide risk factor, by removing easily accessible and potentially deadly drugs. The idea was, each box would Larry Holcombe/Daily Globe be serviced by the respective HURLEY HIGH School sophomores Cody Sobrack, left, and Kalle Colassaco attend to a machine fashioning business or agency where it was wood products during Northwood Manufacturing’s open house at the Hurley K-12 School Friday morning, located. as Sobrack’s mother, Leone Sobrack, and grandmother, Phyllis Walsh of Badger, Minn., look on. Students in The RSPC has placed boxes the metals and wood departments demonstrated various machines and displayed their past work during with the Ironwood Public Safety the day as students, parents and members of the community walked through. Department, Gogebic County Sheriff’s Department, Michigan State Police Wakefield Post, Lac Vieux Desert tribal police office in Watersmeet, Ontonagon County Sheriff’s Department Gogebic Miner Football Club to include Ironwood and Mercer City Hall, as well as the Aspirus facility Bruce Cross- Ian Minielly/Daily Globe By IAN MINIELLY ly at the recommendation of the the community really comes out ing and White Cross Pharmacy A DROP BOX for old and otherwise unwanted prescription and [email protected] coach. in support. in Hurley. over-the-counter drugs sits in the lobby of the Gogebic County RAMSAY — A fundraising The club raises money Over the years, the club has Gallinagh warned snowbirds Sheriff’s Department in Bessemer. The Range Suicide Prevention event begun to help defray the through a steak dinner designed purchased needed equipment about leaving drugs behind Council has worked to place boxes like these in several public costs of shuttling Watersmeet for adults, with or without the football program could not when they head south for win- buildings and a few private health care businesses to help reduce football players to Wakefield- supervision, August 12 at Goge- afford to buy on its own. Some of ter. He said if a house is empty the amount of drugs in private medicine cabinets and elsewhere. Marenisco over a decade ago has bic Lodge according to Laura the items purchased include for long periods of time, there is A Centers for Disease Con- gio. He said he thinks the box at shed another skin and taken on Everson. The club usually sells weight room equipment, refur- a good chance by the time they trol 2015 study on the nation’s the IPSD is the most visited new life. The first change was about 120-140, $100 tickets, bished helmets, and tackling return with the good weather, mortality rate from drug over- drop off box in the area as they the initial birth, to help support which gets the ticket holder two dummies. The club has paid to any pharmaceutical drugs they doses used 2014 data and found have to empty it every 3 to 5 the Watersmeet players with t-shirts, two steak dinners, four send the team to Northern may have left behind will have of the 47,055 deaths due to drug days. the initial football co-op so they drink tickets, and a guaranteed Michigan University football been stolen. overdose, 18,893 were due to The IPSD added a sharps box did not lose football. The next door prize according to Kevin games and if a player wants to Drugs can also disappear from pharmaceutical opioid anal- for used needles after two offi- transition was the dropping of Everson. attend camp and cannot afford a home, a purse, or a kitchen or gesics and 10,574 were blamed cers were poked by used needles Watersmeet and the adding of Maryanne Brunelle said, the the cost of admission, the club office drawer when visitors, on heroin overdoses. retrieving the left over drugs Bessemer, through which the doors at the lodge open at 1:00 has stepped forward and filled young and old, are around. A similar 2010 study found out of the box. The sharps box is football club stayed strong and p.m. The 50/50 begins at 3:00 the gap when needed, very simi- The drug drop off boxes pro- more than 22,000 deaths due to emptied when it gets full and added more supporters. p.m., and fresh steaks are lar to the 501st Parachute vide a location for people to keep overdoses of pharmaceutical the contents are shipped out for Now with Ironwood joining served every hour from 4-7:00 Infantry Regiment at Bastogne their old and unused drugs from drugs compared to 16,000 due to destruction on a monthly basis. the Gogebic Miners, Ironwood p.m., Central Time, turning the during World War II. falling into the wrong hands opioids. According to DiGiorgio the supporters and parents are steak dinner into an all day The Gogebic Miners Football and possibly hurting or even The drug drop box in the drugs come in all forms, from invited to join the football club. adult affair. In addition to the Club exists to help the team and killing someone. IPSD’s lobby is a popular desti- inside the original packaging to The club no longer defrays the door prizes there are other large the players. This year Jason Studies show a high annual nation for people getting rid of sandwich bags and just loose costs of bussing players from grand prize give aways. Accord- Turula won the $500 scholar- rate of deaths due to overdoses their drugs according to Public Watersmeet, but it still helps ing to the football club the of pharmaceutical drugs. Safety Director Andrew DiGior- the program by supporting prizes are different every year, BESSEMER — page 5 areas of need every year, usual- but they are always great and FOOTBALL — page 5 C O N T A C T U S WEATHER INSIDE INDEX TODAY WHITE BUCK Business . .11 Daily Globe Inc. Friday Precipitation High 65 To 7 a.m. Classifieds . .13-15 Vol. 98, No. 148 118 E. McLeod Ave. Partly cloudy White buck spotted near Low 31 Friday none Comics . .12 P.O. Box 548 —Details, page 2 Boulder Junction. 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