10 Years Ago
· June 12, 2000
• A 22-year-old Woodbury, Minn., man was found drowned in Saganaga Lake on June 2.
According to the sheriff, the victim was one of a group of six people canoeing in the wilderness. After fighting wind and waves, his canoe capsized near Spam Island while he and his partner were trying to get to shore. All six members of the party were in the water at one point.
Although the ranger at Cache Point was able to rescue five of the canoeists, the sixth succumbed to the waves.
• TheHarbor Park Committee learned last week that it was awarded a grant from the Minnesota Lake Superior Coastal Program for a total of $27,500 to help pay professional designing expenses for the park.
Thegrant was an integral part of the Harbor Park process, and the money will get the process off on the right foot.
20 Years Ago
·June 11, 1990
• Howard Joynes presented his case before the City Council last week laying out a number of facts, but ultimately requesting the previous “Sidewalk Merchants” ordinance be amended to allow the selling of plants for a specific time period each spring.
Thecouncil agreed that it’s a boon, not a nuisance, for Joynes to sell his flowers. A representative of the Garden Club also voiced support for the amendment.
• It was a day of running, jumping and no classes when Grand Portage and Sawtooth elementary schools came together for the annual track meet May 31. All students in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades participated in the high jump, long jump, softball throw, mile run, hurdles, 50-meter dash, 100-meter dash and 400-meter run.
50 Years Ago
·June 9, 1960
• TheFirst Baptist Church of Grand Marais will have a special service after the regular morning service next Sunday to burn the mortgage on the church and also to dedicate the newly completed front entrance.
An addition to the church was planned and begun in 1951 and finally completed in 1954.
• Theproblem of speed boats racing close to canoes and overturning them becomes an ever increasing danger. Last weekend another canoe was overturned on Sea Gull Lake as a result of such thoughtlessness. There has been no loss of life, but a loss of much gear.
On the other side of the ledger have been those many individuals who are considerate of others and slow down when passing
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another craft. • With the closing of the Hovland grade school, Mrs. Anna Jacobsen, school cook, will bring to a close 26 years of continuous service in her work.
Mrs. Jacobsen started in 1933, when she was allowed $20 per month to provide the food
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for the children each noon and was given a Netwo k
salary of $20 per month. She said she often
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h gr d on this small amount of money. “It was a real
tcipatei t headache at times.”
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90 Years Ago
·June 9 1920
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