10 YEARS AGO
MARCH 13, 2010
Will Brandenburg, CCHS junior, won first place and $500 in an essay contest with his essay The Power of Music. The essay ends: “Music creates connections. It energizes people and makes us believe in the extraordinary. The world can be a beautiful place; you just need the right sound track.”
30 YEARS AGO
APRIL 16, 1990
The Grand Portage Band is undertaking major room renovations at Grand Portage Lodge and adding 83 video casino games in order to provide jobs and attract more tourists to the facility. A large grand opening is planned for sometime in May. The new gaming facility will add 24 jobs, most of which will be filled locally. Revenue derived from the gaming will be used for economic development.
CCHS students walked out in protest last Wednesday after the school board voted Tuesday to adopt a new four-period schedule for next school year. Most of those students were sophomores, juniors and seniors, although some were junior high students, too. The new schedule has 90-minute class periods instead of the current 50-minute classes. Full-year classes will be taught in a semester. The schedule is similar to that used in Ontario, Canada, where it has been successful. The students said they walked out to get the attention of school officials because there has been little communication between administrators and students regarding the schedule, and no informational assemblies were held.
60 YEARS AGO
APRIL 14, 1960
Mabel’s Café was closed last week for a thorough clean-up job. The dining room is so clean it looks like a new paint job, the kitchen sparkles from new paint, the walls are a dazzling white with apple blossom pink ceiling.
90 YEARS AGO
JANUARY 16, 1930
From Muncie, Indiana: Neighbors gathered 22 acres of corn here for widow Mrs. George Burgess, rather than see her son James, a high school sophomore, quit his studies to husk the corn. Sixty-four persons gathered at her farm at 6:30 a.m. and by 2 p.m. the corn was cribbed. After the corn was husked, the neighbors brought baskets, dinner was served, and it was made into a picnic occasion.
100 YEARS AGO
APRIL 14, 1920
W.C. Smith has started work on his new restaurant building just east of the Paine Hotel. He will use the old restaurant building as it is, but will move the building formerly used as a barber shop to the rear of the lot and put up a new building where that now stands. He expects to have everything in shape to handle the tourist trade when it starts.
The trout season is here! The confirmed fisherman is now doomed to impatiently suffer until the speckled beauties begin to strike. Then — and only then — comes relief. The local streams now are filled to overflow with water, and there is considerable snow and ice along the banks. Local fishermen do not hope to be able to catch many trout until May, for the reason that the streams will all be high and roily for over a month yet.
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