10 Years Ago ·
April 10, 2000
• TheGrand Marais Park and Recreation Board last week gave its stamp of approval to the siting of a fish house museum somewhere along the lakefront in the city’s Rec Park.
Leonard Sobanja of the County Historical Society explained that the project has been designed to make visitors aware of the fishing industry that was once so prominent in Cook County.
“We have two main functions in mind for this: to give visitors a visual re-creation of a fish house, and to provide a place to display many of the artifacts we have collected and hope to put in it,” said Sobanja.
• City Clerk Todd Bodem, who has worked for the city of Grand Marais since Dec. 18, 1995, will resign his position this week at the city council meeting. Bodem has accepted the position of city administrator in Belle Plaine, Minn.
• With three full weeks of practice under their belts, the players on the first Cook County High School baseball team are swiftly approaching their first game. Other than the weather, head coach Arleigh Jorgenson couldn’t be more pleased.
“It’s been going pretty well,” Jorgenson said of the practice sessions. “I think we thought perhaps we might have a few more opportunities to be outside, so we feel a little frustrated with that. But, we are going to sneak in some outdoor time whenever it doesn’t snow.”
20 Years Ago ·
April 9, 1990
• TheCity of Grand Marais was offered federal cost-share funding for marina engineering and construction in 1987, but never replied with necessary information, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official.
Theofficialsaid that under the federal Water Resources Development Act of 1986, Grand Marais could be eligible for cost-sharing funds if the harbor project would provide additional mooring for charter or commercial fishermen. The act could provide 50/50 funding for an engineering study and 80 federal/20 nonfederal funding for construction costs.
• As local medical facilities begin to collaborate efforts in hopes of assuring future medical care in Cook County, the question arises as to which option is most beneficial to all.
To make that determination for the Cook County Hospital, the board has begun development of an agenda for a long-term planning retreat in mid-May.
“The board has the responsibility for the hospital’s direction. They need to have the mission, goals and objectives outlined in their minds so they can attend to the other facilities’ recommendations or suggestions,” said hospital administrator Diane Pearson.
50 Years Ago ·
April 7, 1960
• David G. Stimson, supervisory park ranger, Isle Royale National Park, has been assigned to the newly established Grand Portage National Monument effective today, it was announced by George W. Fry, superintendent of Isle Royale National Park.
Mr. Stimson has been district ranger at Windigo in Isle Royale for the last seven years. He will be the first National Park Service employee assigned to the national monument, which was established by secretarial order on March 29, 1960.
Mr. Stimson, a 30-year career employee of the National Park Service, will make his headquarters at Grand Portage, and will be in charge of the area there.
• Notice:
Thecensus taker will be around to your home to collect the census form which you have filled out. If not at home for any length of time, please tack the form to your front door so she can pick it up.
• Thelocal American Legion Post is presenting two TV sets to the hospital today, and the Hospital Auxiliary is purchasing the antenna. Leads have been installed in each room, so that the sets can be used by any of the patients in any room.
They are 17-inch rubber mounted portable sets.
90 Years Ago ·
April 7, 1920
• There will be a basket social in the basement of the Congregational church next Friday night. An entertainment of musical selections and readings will be given first, then the baskets will be sold.
Girls, bring the baskets; the boys will do the rest! Come for a jolly good time.
• There was a small fireMonday evening at Jas. H. Pinkerton’s house. The fire started in the shed on the rear part of the house and was extinguished before any damage was done to the house proper.
Fortunately the well was close by and a few welldirected pails of water was all that was needed to put out the blaze.
• Establishment of a Coast Guard station in Cook County, presumably at Grand Marais, may soon be a reality as the result of the efforts of Congressman W.L. Carss.
Mr. Carss attended a hearing in Washington and made plain the situation that exists along the north shore of Lake Superior and emphasized the need for a lifesaving station at Grand Marais.
Currently, the nearest station is at Portage, Mich., 90 miles away.
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