Call (906) 932-4449 Ironwood, MI GO PACK GO Rodgers’ strong play has Packers Redsautosales.com off to 7-1 start SPORTS • 9 DAILY GLOBE Tuesday, October 29, 2019 Mostly sunny yourdailyglobe.com | High: 39 | Low: 20 | Details, page 2 Bessemer area PERFECT SCORE voters to decide ballot proposals By KIM E. STROM [email protected] BESSEMER – Local elections will be held Nov. 5 and voters in the city of Bessemer will see a busy ballot including the selec- tion of a new city council and several proposed amendments to the city charter. Voters in the Bessemer Area School District will also be asked if the school board should be reduced from seven members to five. Five people are running for five spots on the Bessemer city council, including incumbents Mayor Adam Zak, Terry Kryshak, Louis Miskovich and Linda Nel- son. Bill McDonald is the other name on the ballot. Current council member Rob Coleman is not running. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. Tom LaVenture / Daily Globe to 8 p.m. DENNIS HEWITT, center, Ironwood city assessor, is presented with a certificate from the state of Michigan Department of the Trea- City manager Charly Loper sury at Thursday’s Ironwood City Commission meeting. Congratulating Hewitt for his part in the city’s 100% perfect score in the spoke with the Daily Globe on 2019 Audit of Minimum Assessing Requirements review, from left, Commissioner Kim Corcoran, Mayor Annette Burchell, Hewitt, Monday regarding the seven pro- Jim Mildren and Rick Semo. Commissioner Joseph Cayer was not present at the meeting. posals on the ballot. Ballot Proposals: The city charter currently states “there shall be no standing Commission handles development matters committees of the council.” Pro- By TOM LAVENTURE Michigan Economic Develop- architect to design this project they would consider, according posal No. 1 would replace it with [email protected] ment Corporation requires that for us.” to information at the meeting. “the council may by resolution IRONWOOD – The Iron- qualifications for engineering If all goes according to plan The commission approved create one or more standing com- wood City Commission on Mon- and design services, along with a the project could break ground Bergman’s request for operating mittees of its members to per- day 4-0 approved items related budget, be provided for the Iron- in June 15, 2020 and have the agreements with the Michigan form specific duties and report to city welcome signage along wood City Square Project, which work completed by Nov. 1 2020, Department of Natural on those duties assigned by way the U.S. 2 corridor, and for the he said was a development he said. Resources and Michigan Depart- of report supported by a majority proposed Ironwood City Square intended to draw visitors and Commissioner Rick Semo ment of Transportation for of the committee. Committee Project. public downtown for events and said “the excitement builds” but placement of two gateway members shall be appointed by Commissioner Joseph Cayer to promote regional business. also wanted to know if the entrance sign monuments on the mayor.” was not present at the meeting “This is a large scale econom- MEDC funding was “locked in the west and east side of Iron- “This will help us dig into cer- with an excused absence. ic impact project,” Bergman said. yet.” MEDC has allocated fund- Tom Bergman, city communi- “At this point we’re going out ing but the plans and a firm bud- ty development director, said the and finding an engineer and an get and costs are required before BESSEMER — page 5 IRONWOOD — page 8 MDOT contemplates three lanes on US 2 in Wakefield a mile from the main street to E. n New design Pierce Street, which is next to the might apply east of Regal Country Inn. M-28 He said MDOT officials By P.J. GLISSON believe the extra lane would help [email protected] traffic flow more freely. WAKEFIELD – Members of Mayor Pro Tempore Amy the Wakefield City Council Tarro voiced skepticism, but learned Monday night that the Brown said state officials plan to Michigan Department of Trans- visit the city in the near future to portation is considering convert- display a model of their vision. ing U.S. 2 to a three-lane design The speculated change would for several blocks east of Sunday be part of an already scheduled Lake Street. There are currently repaving of the highway from two lanes in this part of U.S. 2. one end of town to the other in City Manager Robert Brown 2022. said that the section under con- sideration would stretch just over LANES — page 5 Tom LaVenture/Daily Globe WAKEFIELD POST Sgt. James Revoyr of the Michigan State Police’s Wakefield post shows one of the new Watch Guard 4RE dash cameras on Monday. The unit squad cars are being fitted with this Hurley man dies in crash near Sanborn week as part of a statewide upgrade. By TOM LAVENTURE ing east, about 1.45 miles south [email protected] of Madigan Road in the town of Troopers get new cameras SANBORN, Wis. – A Hurley Sanborn, Wisconsin. man died and two people were The Malibu came to rest in the By TOM LAVENTURE technology changes fast and these were getting injured Thursday as the result of south ditch. The F-150 came to [email protected] outdated.” a two-car crash on U.S. 2 near rest on the shoulder of the east- WAKEFIELD – The Michigan State Police- The Watch Guard 4RE systems record high def- Birch Hill in Ashland County, bound lane and caught fire after Wakefield Post is having all of its patrol cars fitted inition video in front of the vehicle. The major according to the Spooner Post of the crash. with new dash cam systems this week. improvement from the old system is the expanded the Wisconsin State Patrol’s The Malibu driver, Ted The 15 post vehicles are being fitted with state side and rear view cameras to follow what is hap- Northwest Region. Sawaryn, 40, of Hurley, was evac- of the art Watch Guard 4RE systems through pening on all sides of a scene during a call. The crash occurred at 11:37 uated by SMDC Lifeflight to St. Thursday, said Sgt. James Revoyr of the Wakefield “These cameras can actually be live-streamed a.m. Thursday, when a 2008 Ford Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth. Post. The new cameras replace camera systems in so that we can see what going on as its happen- F-150 utility pickup truck, nego- The report said Sawaryn died at use for up to eight years, he said. ing,” Revoyr said. tiating a right curve while west- 3 p.m. “It’s part of a statewide upgrade and the tech- MSP troopers will eventually be getting body bound on U.S. 2, crossed the cen- The Malibu passenger, Pamela nicians from Lansing have been working in the cameras that are also part of this system upgrade, ter line and collided head on with U.P. for the last couple of weeks, Revoyr said. “The he said. a 2007 Chevrolet Malibu travel- CRASH — page 5 TODAY INDEX Mostly sunny — Details, page 2 Business . .13 75 cents Monday Today’s records Classifieds . .12-14 High 35 High 72 (1950) Comics . .11 Vol. 100, No. 288 Low 31 Low 9 (1980) Community . .3 Year ago today Precipitation Obituaries . .2, 7 High 43 24 hours to 7 a.m. Opinion . .4 Low 37 Monday none Sports . .9-10 l 2 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2019 AREA / NATION THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD Obituaries TODAY WEDNESDAYWEDNESDDAY THURSDAY FRIDAYFRIDDAY SATURDAY Timothy Roberto ‘Chub’ Joustra MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Timothy Jeanna (fiancé, Brit- Roberto “Chub” Joustra, 58, of Hurley, tney McCall-Lyman) Mostly Sunny Partly CloudyClouudy Mostly Cloudy Isolatedd Snow Isolated Snow passed away Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, sur- Aijala of Arvada, rounded by his loving family at the Colo.; grandchil- 39° 20° 33° 22°222° 31° 24° 35° 27° 33° 26° University of Minnesota Fairview Med- dren, Hana, Ben, ical Center of Minneapolis. Levi, Kole, Gavin, Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: Tim was born Dec. 27, 1960, in Madisyn, Morgan, 6-96-9 mphmph WSWWSW 5-95-9 mphmph WSWWSW 3-73-7 mphmph E 7-137-13 mphmph WSWWSW 9-159-15 mphmph W Burlington, Wis., son of Henry “Hank” Harper, Madden, Ontonagon LOCALL OUTLOOK and Bonita “Bonnie” (Steiner) Joustra. Jace, Parker, Easton, 40/32 He graduated from Mercer High Saylor, Mason, Todayy we will see mostly sunny Timothy Bergland skies, highg of 339°,9°, humidityy of 43%. School with the class of 1979. Roberto “Chub” Kamdin, Jenna, Oak- 40/23 West southwest wind 6 to 9 mph. He met and married Antoinette leigh, Avery, and one Wakefield Joustra Ironwood The record high for today is 772°2° set “Tonie” Hassberg in February 1984. 1960 — 2019 to be named; sisters, Saxon 38/20 39/20 Marenisco in 191901.01. Expect partly cloudy skies 40/22 tonightonight,ht, overnight low of 20°. Together they created four beautiful Peggy (Dale) Joustra Bessemer 39/20 children. Although they later divorced, of Mercer; Carrie (Gordy) Kohegyi of Upson Hurley 38/20 Watersmeet 39/21 39/20 40/20 SUNS AND MOON they remained friends. Mercer; mother- and father-in-law, Gus He then met Sandra Antoinette and Gretchen Giancola of Hurley; Mercer Giancola in October 2010. brothers- and sisters-in-law, Gary 39/20 Manitowish They married on Nov. 11, 2011. (Theresa) Giancola of Hurley, Jay 40/19 SunriseSunri . ...............................................................................se .........................................................................7:37 a.m.