20 YEARS AGO
MARCH 27, 2000
Doug Anderson arranged for Cook County elementary school students to meet local sculpture artists, Lee and Dan Ross, at the Johnson Heritage Post. The students had a chance to visit with the artists and to try some sculpting skills themselves. Lee and Dan Ross took the youngsters through the step-by-step creation of some of their pieces. Dan Ross said, “It was fun to talk to the kids about our work, because they’re so uninhibited and say what they really think. We learned a lot too.”
30 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. The council 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.
60 YEARS AGO
JUNE 9, 1960
The problem 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 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 for the children each noon, and was given a salary of $20 per month. She said she often wondered what she would serve the children on this small amount of money. “It was a real headache at times.”
100 YEARS AGO
JUNE 9, 1920
There has been some talk from time to time about stocking Lake Superior with whitefish. The supply of whitefish in Lake Superior must be preserved; not only that, it should be increased. This fish is too good to become extinct and disappear.
Albert Olson, a homesteader on the reservation, was in Grand Marais Saturday, attending to some business matters. Mr. Olson made the trip on his motorcycle, but reported that the road is a little too rough for that kind of travel. As evidence, he had a hand that was bruised up from a spill.
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