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We wish all of our readers a safe and happy New Year. Please note, there will be no Timberjay published on Friday, Jan. 5. Timberjay offices will be closed Dec. 25 - Jan. 5. the 00 Now In Our 28th Year Serving Northern St. Louis County! $1TIMBERJAYVOL. 28, ISSUE 51 December 29, 2017 ENVIRONMENT Twin Metals can reapply for mineral leases Trump’s Interior Department reverses earlier rulings by Reagan and Obama by MARSHALL HELMBERGER legal opinion, issued by Deputy The decision means the USFS Managing Editor Solicitor Daniel H. Jorjani, would and BLM must reconsider appear to pave the way for Twin applications to renew Twin REGIONAL— The Trump Metals to reapply for two mineral Metals’ mineral leases near the BWCAW. file photo Interior Department has reversed leases on about 4,800 acres of the previous legal opinions issued by both Superior National Forest, within the mining giant that controls Twin the Reagan and Obama administra- Kawishiwi River watershed. Metals, and had controlled the leases tions and concluded that the Bureau The decision was something of until they were cancelled one year of Land Management has no choice a surprise, but appeared to be a reac- ago. but to renew mineral leases to Twin tion to abortive attempts in the U.S. Twin Metals proposed copper- Metals for its proposed copper-nickel House to restore the mineral leases mine near the Boundary Waters to Antofagasta, the Chilean copper ...MINING Canoe Area Wilderness. The latest See pg. 7 MINNESOTA DISCOVERY CENTER ELY Recreation Telling facility spot our put on hold stories ERCC cancels Discovery Center’s request for newest exhibit school location by KEITH VANDERVORT focuses on history Ely Editor of Iron Range labor ELY – The prospect of a 50,000 square-foot community recreation by JODI SUMMIT Above, complex on Ely’s school grounds died Tower-Soudan Editor Curator Allyse last week with a formal statement Freeman, stands in from the Ely Regional Community CHISHOLM- The front of the Complex board of directors. newest permanent exhibit Minnesota Discovery A letter sent Dec. 20 to ISD 696 at the Minnesota Center’s newest per- manent exhibit that School Board members and Discovery Center is a focuses on the often- Superintendent Kevin Abrahamson, journey into the labor violent labor history by Kurt Soderberg on behalf of the history of the Iron Range, of the Iron Range. ERCC board, stated, “The ERCC for- highlighting struggles that mally withdraws its request for a had national significance. Right, planned community recreation The public got their Mining companies complex to be located on the grounds first look at “Blue Collar spied on their employees and of the Ely schools.” Battleground: The Iron other activists. At their Dec. 11 meeting the Range Labor Story” at a photos by J. Summit school board voted 4-2 to table the grand opening celebra- issue rather than vote on a plan to tion on Dec. 7. Iron Range support a school campus location for Historian Pam Brunfelt Vermilion iron ranges the proposed recreational facility. opened the evening with fought to get safer That decision came after an hour of a talk about how Iron working conditions and comments, mostly from project oppo- Range miners, from the nents. The meeting was anticipated Cuyuna, Mesaba, and See...LABOR pg. 7 See...ELY pg. 8 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ‘Welcome home, Harley’ Cook family gets a new a home in time for Christmas by MELISSA ROACH member Cindy Pogachnik presented Harley Pajari and her son Liam Staff Writer Pajari with a Bible and a hammer, and moved into their new Habitat for said, “Welcome home, Harley.” Humanity home in Cook just in COOK - “I know exactly where time for Christmas. Construction volunteer crews started photo by M. Roach I’m going to put the Christmas tree.” working on the Pajari house back in Harley Pajari and her son Liam will March 2016. “Sometimes it seems like Harley and her young son Liam had indeed be home for the holidays. “It’s these projects take forever…I told moved twice in the past three years, so been a long haul, we’re really happy to Harley when it began that it would be they are happy to have their own per- be in by Christmas. Thank you to every- about a year, and told her to imagine manent and sustainable home this one for your help and support she said.” that in about a year from now, she would Habitat for Humanity board have a home.” See... HOME pg. 7 Contact The Timberjay 218-753-2950 [email protected] 365-6745 Open Monday - Saturday 9 - 5 pm 10 - 4 Sundays 2 December 29, 2017 TIMBERJAY Newspapers HEALTH CARE Scenic Rivers welcomes two new care providers by MELISSA ROACH applied to the University of on a dairy farm. After high Staff Writer Minnesota to work on her Doctor school, he went on to the of Nursing Practice. She then University of Illinois-School of COOK- Scenic Rivers went back to the Mayo for four Medicine, where he majored in Health Services Medical Clinic years, working in family medi- organic chemistry. He graduated has been expanding, and they cine, before making the journey in 2014. Elleby then continued recently added two new medical back north. on to Wisconsin, completing his care providers to the team at the “I really wanted to move residency with the La Crosse- Cook Medical Clinic. Coming back to be closer to my family,” Mayo Family Residency aboard are Certified Nurse she said. “I also wanted to stay Program. The three-year resi- Practitioner Rachel Beldo and in family medicine. I enjoy dency program focuses on family Dr. Eric Elleby. getting to know families and medicine. “I like rural medicine, Although new to the clinic, wanted to build those relation- out-patient care, and ER.” Rachel Beldo, CNP, is no stranger ships.” When she is not working, Although he has no family with to the area, having grown up in she enjoys time spent with family him in the area, he said, “I wanted Eveleth where she graduated on Lake Vermilion. to be up north...I like fishing, the high school in 2003. She went Also making the trek north, outdoors, hockey, skiing…that’s on to obtain her RN at the College Dr. Eric Elleby hails from the why I’m here.” of St. Scholastica, subsequently small town of Hayward, located Right: Dr. Eric Elleby and working at the Mayo in Rochester in southern Minnesota where he Nurse Practitioner Rachel for three years. Beldo then grew up with a tight-knit family Beldo. MINNESOTA POLITICS AG’s office: GOP senator can’t hold two offices by MARSHALL HELMBERGER hanging in the balance. presiding president of the for the state of Minnesota, except ernment,” wrote Gilbert. “In Managing Editor Republicans currently hold a Senate— which happens to be that of postmaster or of notary 1989, the position of lieutenant two-seat majority in the Senate, Fischbach. public.” governor had no executive branch REGIONAL— The state’s but a special election to replace But Fischbach, citing an Solicitor Gilbert cited numer- responsibilities,” he noted. solicitor general has determined DFL Sen. Dan Schoen, of Cottage opinion from the Senate’s legal ous subsequent court rulings that “Rather, as ex officio president that GOP Sen. Michelle Grove, is set for Feb. 12. If the counsel, argued that she could have affirmed the prohibition on of the senate, the lieutenant gov- Fischbach, of Paynesville, must DFL maintains control of hold both positions simultane- anyone serving in two offices ernor’s sole constitutional duties resign her seat once she is seated Schoen’s seat, as expected, they ously, citing a case from 1898, that would be considered “incom- were “to preside over the senate” as Minnesota’s next lieutenant could take control of the Senate when Sen. Frank Day retained patible.” In 1898, noted Gilbert, and “to authenticate by his sig- governor. That could happen as should Fischbach be forced to his seat in the senate after being the duties of the president of the nature the bills passed by the early as Jan. 2, when current Lt. resign her seat and if the DFL named lieutenant governor after Senate and the lieutenant gover- senate.” In light of the changes Gov. Tina Smith takes the oath manages to win a subsequent a vacancy arose. That decision nor were essentially identical, to the office, “a strong argument of office to replace Sen. Al special election. was subsequently challenged in but that the roles of the two posi- can be made that the 1898 deci- Franken. Gov. Mark Dayton, at the court, but the state’s Supreme tions have since changed con- sion of the Minnesota Super Franken announced his res- urging of Senate Majority Leader Court sided with Day, arguing siderably as a result of Court does not control the ignation on Dec. 7 following a Paul Gazelka, GOP-Nisswa, had that the two functions were not amendments to the constitution outcome of this dispute,” Gilbert series of sexual harassment alle- requested the opinion from the incompatible and that he was and state statutes that have concluded. gations. attorney general after Fischbach not expressly prohibited by the assigned purely executive branch In more recent times, notes The advisory opinion, issued announced that she had no inten- constitution from holding two functions to the lieutenant gov- Gilbert, senators have resigned by solicitor Alan I. Gilbert on tion of resigning her seat in the offices. But the court’s ruling ernor’s position. “The current their seats upon filling a lieutenant Dec.