Call (906) 932-4449 Ironwood, MI Hurley softball Badgers’ Miklesh talks with Redsautosales.com Hurley girls SPORTS • 9 DAILY GLOBE Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Mostly cloudy yourdailyglobe.com | High: 68 | Low: 49 | Details, page 2 Hurley H E R E K I T T Y discusses DNR confirms water cougar report testing from Gogebic By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] County HURLEY, Wis. – The Hurley City Council discussed drinking IRONWOOD – A mountain water to lead the regular meeting lion image caught on a landown- Tuesday. er’s trail camera in Gogebic Around a dozen residents County has been confirmed as were present to hear information the state’s 39th cougar report from Gary Laguna, the lead since 2008. water operator for the city of The cat was photographed Hurley Public Works Depart- July 7 in daylight hours north- ment, and Katie Hampston, the west of Ironwood, according to a health officer for the Iron County Monday press release. Health Department. “This is very close to where a The city of Hurley receives its cougar was documented on a water from the city of Ironwood. deer movement study trail cam- The testing results provided on era last year,” said Cody Norton, water coming into the city from a large carnivore specialist with Ironwood show that manganese the Bear and Wolf Program of the levels are below the health advi- Michigan Department of Natural sory limits of 1,000 parts per bil- Resources. lion for adults and 300 ppb for A DNR wildlife biologist visit- infants under 1 year, Laguna ed the location Thursday. The said. When levels approached image was reviewed and verified by the DNR’s cougar team, com- the infant limit it prompted a pre- Submitted photo cautionary warning, he said. A COUGAR image is shown from a landowner’s game camera, northwest of Ironwood in Gogebic posed of wildlife biologists, the “But there has been no County. The image, taken July 7, was provided by the Michigan Department of Natural exceedance of manganese levels Resources. in the distribution system that COUGAR — page 5 have even reached, or exceeded the potential for a health adviso- ry,” Laguna said. The city of Ironwood and North Country Trail Association plans hike, picnic Western Upper Peninsula Health BLACK RIVER HARBOR – The local Ni- it is about a 35 minute drive from the trail- Department selected five homes Miikanaake Chapter of the North County head to Black River Harbor by road. in each of five zones including Trail Association is planning a hike and pic- The group is sponsoring a series of hikes the entry point where the city of nic for Saturday. this summer and fall. The next one will be Hurley gets its water from, he The event will also include a remem- Saturday, Oct. 5, in the Montreal River said. Subsequently the city of brance for Calvin Kangas, the group’s presi- Gorge area. Hurley has been in contact with dent who died this summer while working The hikes and picnic are open to the pub- the state of Wisconsin, various on the trail in the Porcupine Mountains lic. water supervisors with the Wis- Wilderness State Park. Jensen said the Ni-Miikanaake Chapter consin Department of Natural “We wanted to do something to remem- maintains the existing trail in the western Resources and the city health ber him,” said Karl Jensen, the group’s vice U.P., “the best we can and scout out and department. president and acting president. build new trail, and work in various collabo- The DNR required the city of Jensen said Kangas was a “very friendly” rative ways with other organizations that are Hurley to take one manganese man who was “eager to get things done on doing that.” sample at the point of entry from the trail, a very personable guy.” The chapter’s section of the trail runs Ironwood, he said. There are The picnic is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. at 9:30 a.m., hoping to start the hike about 10 from the state line with Wisconsin near Environmental Protection Agen- the Black River Harbor picnic area, but Lake Superior where Lake Road turns into cy requirements and some states a.m. He said the approximately 6.5-mile hike before that, the group is planning a hike will take some folks longer than others, but Wisconsin Highway 122 to the west, and the enhance those requirements along the North Country Trail from County eastern end is on M-64 southeast of the when it is deemed necessary, he they hope to have the picnic at 12:30 p.m. Road 519 (Presque Isle Road), starting at a The Ni-Miikanaake Chapter plans to pro- Porkies. said. trailhead near the southwest entrance to the The national scenic trail, extends from “The EPA requires testing for vide soft drinks, coffee, burgers, brats and Porkies that is also south of Presque Isle vegetable dip. “Feel free to bring a small dish the northern point of the Appalachian Trail lead and copper in the distribu- Park and then hiking west to Black River in Vermont to central North Dakota. tion systems a minimum of every or beverages,” Jensen said. Harbor. If people leave their car at the trailhead For more information, call 715-952-8900 Jensen said they plan to shuttle people to instead, there will be an effort to shuttle peo- or email [email protected]. the starting point from Black River Harbor at ple back to the cars after the picnic, he said —Larry Holcombe WATER — page 5 Pat O’ Donnell Civic Center to get temporary dome By TOM LAVENTURE said. “Once the roof and walls [email protected] have been removed the installa- IRONWOOD – The Pat tion of the temporary dome can O’Donnell Civic Center will start.” have a temporary dome The dome is a temporary installed for use this winter, structure, he said. With the according to Scott Erickson, dome in place the engineers can Ironwood city manager. evaluate the overall structure In his report to the Ironwood and determine if the preferable City Commission on Monday, course of action is to rebuild Erickson said it is still not using salvaged portions of the known if the civic center will be building or to replace it entirely, able to be rebuilt or need to be he said. replaced with a new structure “That is yet to be deter- after the roof collapsed from mined,” Erickson said. “The heavy snow in March. But a tem- temporary building should be in porary fix will allow the build- place for this season and be ing to be used for winter activi- Tom LaVenture/Daily Globe ready by late October or early ties as engineers determine what THE PAT O’DONNELL Civic Center as it appeared Tuesday next to the Gogebic Community Col- November.” can be done with the structure, lege campus. The city’s insurance company will remove the roof and walls that were damaged by The dome would allow the he said. heavy snow in March, to install a temporary dome for the winter season and to determine to ice rinks to be operated and “The insurance company has rebuild or replace the structure next year. skaters can use the restrooms, retained the services of a project changing rooms and other por- manager to evaluate next steps,” The project manager will deconstruct parts of the build- ing current building codes, he tions of the facility, he said. Erickson said. “We are meeting handle the logistics and get the ing that were damaged by said. Once the season is over the con- with the project manager this contractors together to start on snow, or will need to be “There is not a start date set struction on a rebuild or new week to get more specific details the civic center project, he removed for the dome, and yet but should be started in a build should start in the spring on the project.” said. The work will first be to other areas that are not meet- couple of weeks,” Erickson of 2020, he said. TODAY INDEX Most cloudy — Details, page 2 Business . .13 75 cents Tuesday Today’s records Classifieds . .12-13 High 68 High 92 (1970) Comics . .11 Vol. 100, No. 225 Low 57 Low 31 (1907) Community . .3 Year ago today Precipitation Obituaries . .6 High 86 24 hours to 7 a.m. Opinion . .4 Low 64 Tuesday 0.17 in. 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