Call (906) 932-4449 Ironwood, MI Find Fun in the Northwoods 2019 Winter Fun Guide to Redsautosales.com Gogebic Range adventures INSIDE TODAY DAILY GLOBE2019-20 Travel Guide for The Northwoods Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Scattered snow yourdailyglobe.com | High: 21 | Low: 15 | Details, page 2 School R I N K W O R K bus backs into ditch, no injuries reported By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP – No injuries were reported after an Ironwood Area Schools’ bus backed into a ditch while picking up students Monday morning. The bus was traveling on Jack- son Road during the morning bus run, according to district Superintendent Travis Powell, when it came across a stopped vehicle blocking the road. The bus driver was forced to make a three-point turn at Crestview Road, which Powell said wasn’t plowed at the time, and backed part way into the ditch. “The ditch is steep right there, and the bus slid off the road and tilted slightly away from the road, toward the ditch,” Powell Tom LaVenture / Daily Globe said in an email. “It was a slow BILL NYMAN, maintenance manager for the Pat O’Donnell Civic Center, is in the process of making ice for the skating surface that is motion accident and there was expected to be ready on Thursday. The work on the ice started soon after the temporary dome was built over the original rink to use no impact or sudden stop. for this winter until a new facility can be built in the summer of 2020. The roof of the original facility partially collapsed from heavy “The driver followed protocol snow in spring 2019 and caused unrepairable structural damage. by ensuring the students on the bus were safe and radioing the incident in to the school.” There were roughly 21 stu- Civic Center may open Thursday dents on the bus at the time, By TOM LAVENTURE the dome. It gives the rink a big- the exterior of the Civic Center work such as this but this was according to Powell. [email protected] He said helpful neighbors ger feel, he said. and installed the temporary the first dome installation,” he quickly came to the driver’s IRONWOOD – After months The lighting in the old Civic dome. The rain slowed progress said. “We do ground-up and assistance and credited Dan Siir- of work the Pat O’Donnell Civic Center shined down onto the but the structure was up before everything involved with con- ila with providing the students Center could be ready for skaters ice, he said. The dome’s LED the first snow, he said. struction.” with a warm place to wait for the on Thursday evening, according lighting shines up on to the “Everything that we incurred The dome was shipped to few minutes it took for another to city officials. white liner and gives the rink worked out pretty good,” Baldas- Ironwood in sections and errect- bus to arrive and take them to Bill Nyman, maintenance more of a daytime sunlight feel- sarre said. “We didn’t have many ed at the site. The harder outer school. manager for the Civic Center, ing, he said. major issues so everything went shell protects from the external “All students were safe and and Ethan Roehm, maintenance City officials, Civic Center pretty smooth all the way elements and a lighter inside warm and made it to school in a worker, started making ice on board members, insurance com- through.” liner helps the inflation unit timely manner,” Powell said. Monday and expect to have a pany officials and the contrac- After weeks of deconstructing keep the dome up. “The bus sustained minor cos- skate-able sheet of ice by Thurs- tors did a walk-through of the the roof, walls and preparing the The roof held up well against metic damage to one side panel day. facility on Friday and Monday, surrounding terrain for the the snow, Erickson said. The and was easily pulled from the “When we get done with the said Scott Erickson, Ironwood inflatable dome, it was definitely maintenance staff added a little ditch.” ice I believe we have the Ice city manager. Ironwood Town- a big relief to see the dome extra air pressure inside to keep The bus was then driven to Crystals (Figure Skating Club) ship approved a temporary cer- inflate. He supervised several the inflatable fabric tighter to the school so the students could scheduled that night,” Nyman tificate of occupancy until a workers and many sub-contrac- protect against the weight of get their backpacks and other said. short list of items to complete tors for the duration of the pro- snow. items that had been left on the The ice will be there until are accomplished to become a ject. “They have these domes in bus. March for the youth hockey and permanent certificate. Baldassarre, who comes from other locations with winter cli- Ironwood Public Safety figure skating programs and The weather was the primary Nashville, said he has worked on mates,” Erickson said. “The Department and Gogebic County open skating, he said. The facili- obstacle, said Adam Baldassarre, all kinds of restoration projects same company installed a simi- Sheriff’s Department were on ty is also available for rent. a project manager with Signal over many years. But this was his lar dome in Siberia and they scene while the bus was in the Nyman, who worked with the Restoration Service, the Detroit first dome. ditch, Powell said. previous building, said he likes area contractor that tore down “We usually do restoration CIVIC — page 5 DIGGING OUT Action Floors looks to resume production after fire By RICHARD JENKINS Mercer department clearing the [email protected] scene at approximately 6 p.m. MERCER, Wis. – Work is No one was hurt in the fire, expected to resume at Action although at least one trailer on Floor Systems today after the site was damaged and parts of a company halted production for a building were damaged in the day following a fire Monday at its effort to fight the fire. Mercer facility. Abendroth said the fire Company president Tom occurred in an area of the facility Abendroth said the company away from the main plant where made the decision as a precau- vehicles are loaded with sawdust tion and much of the work and other production waste that should be able to proceed as nor- is then sold. mal. “We took every precaution “We made choice not to run necessary to make sure it wasn’t production today and just made spreading back through the dust sure we went through everything collection system (to the rest of and everything was in good, the facility),” Abendroth said. working order,” Abendroth told He explained the company uti- the Daily Globe Tuesday. lizes all the wood over the course Iron County Dispatch received of its production process, with the first reports of the fire at the the waste generated going to two Tom LaVenture/Daily Globe facility just south of Mercer on places. GOGEBIC COMMUNITY College sophomore Jordon Burkett, left, watches as Raquentez Woodley, U.S. 51 at approximately 2:36 “We either burn it ourselves to a freshman, shovels out his car in the school parking lot early Tuesday afternoon following the p.m. Monday. Several local fire generate the steam to run our heavy snowfall on Monday. Burkett is from Jefferson, Wis., and completing his general studies departments – including the kilns – we heat the plant, we heat before transferring to the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Woodley is from Horn Lake, Mercer, Oma and Sherman- Miss., and here playing basketball for the Samsons while studying pre-engineering and educa- Springstead departments – tion. responded to the fire, with the FIRE — page 5 TODAY INDEX Scattered snow — Details, page 2 Business . .6 75 cents Classifieds . .12-13 Tuesday Today’s records Snowfall Comics . .11 Vol. 100, No. 301 High 16 High 59 (1909) 24 hours to 7 a.m. Community . .3 Low 5 Low -8 (1986) Tuesday 6 in. Snow depth 11 in. Obituaries . .none Year ago today Precipitation Season total 14.4 in. Opinion . .4 High 23 24 hours to 7 a.m. Last year 24.1 in. Sports . .9-10 Low 8 Tuesday .51 in. l 2 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2019 NATION / WORLD THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD TODAY THURSDAYTHURSDAAY FRIDAY SATURDAYSATURRDAY SUNDAY Scattered Few SnowS Few Snow Partly CloudyClouudy Partly Cloudy Snow ShowersShowwers Showers 21° 15° 28° 21°211° 23° 17° 31° 21° 33° 25° Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: 6-136-13 mphmph SSWSSW 7-147-14 mphmph WSWWSW 3-113-11 mphmph ESEESE 13-1713-17 mphmph S 6-96-9 mphmph WSWWSW Ontonagon LOCALL OUTLOOK 25/17 Todayy we will see cloudy skies with Associated Press Bergland a 50%% chance of scattered snow, IN THIS Aug. 23 photo, a Honduran father stands at his home in Comayagua, Hon- 22/15 high ttemperature of 21°, humidity of Wakefield duras, after talking in an interview about being separated from his 3-year-old Ironwood 77%. South southwest wind 6 to 13 Saxon 21/14 daughter at the border after traveling for weeks to seek asylum in the U.S. Accord- 21/15 Marenisco mph. Snow accumulation of less than 23/17 one ininchnch possible. ing to court records, his daughter was sexually abused in U.S. foster care. She was 21/15 Bessemer later deported and arrived back in Honduras withdrawn, anxious and angry. He Upson Hurley 21/14 Watersmeet 20/12 21/15 19/13 SUNS AND MOON fears their bond is forever broken.