10 Years Ago
Oct. 14, 2005
Jessica Heil and Seth Falk were crowned homecoming king and queen during ceremonies at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts. The couple will reign during Homecoming Week activities at the school, including the parade in downtown Grand Marais on Friday afternoon.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners endorsed a plan to convert the old main building at Chik Wauk Lodge to a museum dedicated to the history of the people who have lived along the Gunflint Trail. The effort is being spearheaded by a group of local residents who are incorporating the Gunflint Trail Historical Society.
Lutsen Township’s new log pavilion is almost complete on its site at Grandview Park. All that remains to be done is to paint the logs, and that will wait until spring. The fire hall will also be stained in October.
20 Years Ago
Oct. 16, 1995
Investigation by Grand Marais Police and the Cook County Sheriff ’s Department has led to the filing of 17 felony counts of burglary and/or possession of stolen property. The break-ins occurred at Tait, Pike, Elbow, Devil Track and Greenwood lakes, and one residence on Lake Superior, mostly in late August and early September. Some of the items recovered were a stolen .22 caliber Ruger semiautomatic handgun, a microwave oven, TV set, brass lamp, coffee table, kitchen appliances and numerous articles of household items and clothing.
The Cook County- Grand Marais Joint Economic Development Authority board approved a contract with LHB Engineering of Duluth for layout and design work on the business development area in Grand Marais. The $12,589 project was approved unanimously. It calls for design work including water and sewer lines and their locations, environmental impact studies, and general platting and mapping designs. EDA Executive Director Mary Junnila reported to the board that she has already received between 15 and 20 requests for information on the business development area, even without any advertising or promotion efforts.
50 Years Ago
Oct. 14, 1965
Frank Zuryck, 50, of Port Arthur, Ontario, was hurt Saturday when his car missed the sharp turn at Grand Portage and went into the ditch. He evidently lost control of the car.
Maple Hill had a thin white covering of snow early Tuesday morning, but it soon disappeared.
Miss Louise Gilfillan and Mrs. Antoinette Sargent of St. Paul were visitors to Schroeder. They enjoyed their tours of the North Shore and back roads color flame-o-rama.
Landing in the mud and having his head narrowly miss the concrete base of one of the new Poma lift towers was the frightening experience of George Nelson last Friday when a ladder collapsed. He was kept in the hospital for observation for a few days, but he is at home now.
90 Years Ago
Oct. 15, 1925
P.O. Wahlstrom is doing cement work on the People’s Supply Company’s new building which is being built on the old Woods & Seglem foundation next to the old bank building.
Lyle Roberts of the Tofte & Co. store cut his fingers quite badly while cutting meat Saturday. Dr. Hicks dressed the wound.
Mrs. Nancy Bally has a coal stove for sale which is in good condition.
Miss Helen Rude has joined the large number of appendixless, having discarded that troublesome member in a Duluth hospital last week.
Andrew Olson of Maple Hill has been helping his brother, Ole Allen of Rosebush, dig potatoes this week.
Thomas Homo of Lutsen has sold his farm on Caribou Lake to Ingebright Strand, who will plat the shore into lots for summer cabin sites. Mr. Homo has rented a place on Lake Superior and will fish.
How beautiful now is the foliage. The prophet Isaiah says, “We all do fade as a leaf.” How delightful if we only could grow old as gracefully as the leaves do. We fade surely enough, but do we fade as they do?
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