10 Years Ago · Nov. 5, 2001
Following a golf season that saw Superior National Golf Course fall 5,000 rounds short of its budget predictions and $100,000 short on its budgeted income, Recreation Management Corporation (RMC) made a decision last week to cut seven positions at the course. Five of those were hourly employees, and two were salaried. RMC, which was recently given a new management contract at Superior National, based its decision on finances. According to RMC President Paul James, the Lutsen/Tofte Tourism Association was forced to dip into its own advertising budget to the tune of $72,600 this fall in order to make the course solvent, and there is simply no money left in the course’s budget to allow employees to be kept over the winter.
Two teenagers from Wisconsin are facing charges of smuggling and possession of smuggled goods after failing to complete an entry inspection at the Canadian Port of Entry at Pigeon River last Wednesday. The 17-year-old driver and his 14-year-old girlfriend stopped at the border crossing at 1:20 a.m., but fled north on Highway 61 after Customs officials tried to inspect their Toyota pickup. Canadian law officers apprehended them some time later and placed them in jail.
20 Years Ago · Nov. 4, 1991
A park legal fund is being established to forestall any further commercial development at the Grand Marais Recreation Area/RV Park. Proponents of the fund are among the same people who last summer led a petition drive to collect the signatures of those who favor keeping the park as it is. The legal fund came into existence following a meeting of the park board a few weeks ago at which one of the proponents of park development said, “We have developers waiting in the wings. We are just waiting for the controversy to die down.”
Safety concerns and inadequate liability insurance have led the Forest Service to deny a permit application to run the International 500 (I-500) snowmobile race on the Superior National Forest this winter. The race, which is scheduled for Feb. 1-3, has run from Thunder Bay to the Twin Cities for the past five years, crossing a portion of Superior National Forest between Schroeder and Hovland. Race officials have been unable to secure required liability insurance, and there have also been numerous safety violations in past races due to inadequate administration.
50 Years Ago · Nov. 2, 1961
The Chicago Art Institute has purchased one of Birney Quick’s most recent watercolors for its permanent collection. The purchase was made by Harold Joachim, curator of prints, drawings and watercolors at the Institute. This, of course, is one of the sought-after triumphs by any painter and it was, no doubt, one of Mr. Quick’s greatest thrills.
Mrs. Gerald Parent, assisted by Mrs. Charles Happy, were hostess to 12 small costumed guests for Halloween at her home on Allard’s Hill. Games were played and a nice lunch served to all the ghosts and goblins.
Mrs. J.C. Willcox is confined to her home and quite often is in bed because of severe pain in her foot.
90 Years Ago · Nov. 10, 1921
The high school rooms seem to be a place of attraction for stray animals this year. One week the students were visited by Mr. Crow, but last week a Mr. Cat found his way into “some place unknown” and tormented the students and teachers with a pitiful mewing. The teachers tried in vain to locate the unhappy creature. Finally Mr. Hussey found him in a ventilator and brought him back to his little owner, Miss Dorothy Stowe.
John Kelly of Colvill was in town Tuesday. He is now 81 and is as spry as ever.
V.N. Johnson installed a 2-HP electric motor in the Grand Marais school on Tuesday. It will be used for pumping water.
This is the busy season for Gilbert Gilbertson at Greenwood Lake. All of his cottages are full of hunters.
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