10 Years Ago
June 4, 2004
Thanks to the efforts of the Grand Marais Garden Club, the city’s downtown streets will sport a splash of festive colors, after all. It was announced at the city council’s May 26 meeting that the local Garden Club has volunteered its resources and energy to donate and plant day lilies along the sidewalks once the $700,000 beautification project is completed. The lilies, which were included in the original streetscape design, were deleted from the plan by council in a cost-cutting move when bids for the total cost of the project came in about $250,000 over estimate.
The Class of 2004 should have great memories when they look back on their graduation from Cook County High School. The new gym was packed full of well-wishers, family and friends on Saturday as the graduates waited for the moment they had been looking forward to for four years – a diploma in their hands.
Volunteer divers from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society will be diving in Sugar Loaf Cove on June 5, surveying the site for underwater artifacts. The society was formed in 1996 as an instrument to stabilize and restore the deteriorating shipwrecks of the Great Lakes region.
20 Years Ago
June 6, 1994
On May 16, a Richfield pilot succeeded in an emergency landing of his Cessna 185E about a half-mile east of Cascade Lake. Mechanical problems forced him to bring the plane down in a marshy area near the old railroad grade. Uninjured, the pilot slept in the plane until morning, then walked to a nearby road and caught a ride into town.
The Lutsen Town Hall was filled last Tuesday evening with people wanting to discuss a potential townsite development on a 160-acre piece of property known locally as “The Old Mink Ranch” in Lutsen.
Fishing was excellent for a 12-year-old St. Cloud girl, who hauled in a northern pike that measured 43½ inches long by 19 inches in girth. It weighed 22 pounds and was caught at Flour Lake.
50 Years Ago
June 4, 1964
The largest class ever to graduate from Cook County High School will receive diplomas at commencement June 5. Principal Leonard Sobanja will present the class of 70 to Howard Massie, chairman of the Board of Education, who will present the diplomas.
There is an urgent need for women to cook in Minnesota summer resorts, it was reported by the state commissioner of employment security. Jobs are located in many different resorts throughout the state but predominantly in the northern sections. While there is a slight demand for male cooks, waitresses, cabin girls and other resort jobs, the real need is for women with cooking experience.
Everyone is hoping that the frost that hit the area with a vengeance for three days in some places did not kill the blueberry crop. The plants have been loaded with blossoms, as are the wild strawberries.
90 Years Ago
June 5, 1924
Monday night at the school auditorium the high school commencement exercises were held. The class roll follows: Marion Lince, Hubert Scott, Ellwood Johnson, Genevieve Bayle and Robert Zimmerman. Marion Lince was the valedictorian and Hubert Scott gave the salutatory. These addresses were both good – as good as we have ever heard given by high school students at commencement.
A. Cornwell of Colvill was in town Wednesday for the second time this year.
Louis Ellingson of Hovland brought a load of fresh pork to Ed Toftey & Co.’s Tuesday.
The first daily bus started Monday on the Gunflint road. The service has been selfsustaining thus far and it is to be hoped that it will be a regular thing all summer.
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