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20 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 5, 2001
Following a golf season that saw Superior National Golf Course fall 5,000 rounds short of its budget predictions and $100,000 short on its budgeted income, Recreation Management Corporation (RMC) made a decision last week to cut seven positions at the course. Five of those were hourly employees, and two were salaried. RMC, which was recently given a new management contract at Superior National, based its decision on finances. According to RMC President Paul James, the Lutsen/Tofte Tourism Association was forced to dip into its own advertising budget to the tune of $72,600 this fall in order to make the course solvent, and there is simply no money left in the course’s budget to allow employees to be kept over the winter.
Two teenagers from Wisconsin are facing charges of smuggling and possession of smuggled goods after failing to complete an entry inspection at the Canadian Port of Entry at Pigeon River last Wednesday. The 17-year-old driver and his 14-year-old girlfriend stopped at the border crossing at 1:20 a.m. but fled north on Highway 61 after Customs officials tried to inspect their Toyota pickup. Canadian law officers apprehended them some time later and placed them in jail.
31 YEARS AGO
MAY 14, 1990
RUSSIAN SLED DOG EXPEDITION John Patten and Dean Gulden with 22 sled dogs began this adventure in Alaska. They spent 18 days on the Iditarod Trail as Trail Sweeps – following behind the racers and helping anyone who might become lost, injured, or ill. From Nome, Alaska, John Patten, Dean Gulden, and the 22 sled dogs were flown to Providenlya, Russia, for a reunion with Afanassi Makarov. The expedition was a dog sled tour through villages of the Russian arctic and included three American teams and three Russian teams. The destination was Uelen on the Bering Straits. It was not the kind of adventure they expected. A family emergency required Gulden to abruptly leave the expedition. Volcanic ash was swirling in the air and covering the ground with sharp particles. The dogs had to wear their booties to protect their paws. Two dogs got into a serious fight. There was a dangerous encounter with an aggressive bull moose; the moose had to be shot and killed. A beloved lead dog suddenly dropped dead on the trail. Food for the journey included: raw frozen walrus, raw frozen seal, raw frozen reindeer, and a raw whale delicacy that included hide and blubber called Muktuk. John Patten’s digestive system rejected these unfamiliar treats and he became very ill, requiring hospitalization in Lavrentiya. One of the two planes that provided transport at the end of the expedition crashed shortly after take-off. Tragically, people and dogs were injured and died in the crash. John Patten said,” It was a crazy trip. Happy, sad, exciting, tragic. Things are so different over there, you just go with the flow. The people were wonderful to us all the way.”
60 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 2, 1961
The Chicago Art Institute has purchased one of Birney Quick’s most recent watercolors for its permanent collection. The purchase was made by Harold Joachim, curator of prints, drawings, and watercolors at the Institute. This, of course, is one of the sought-after triumphs by any painter and it was, no doubt, one of Mr. Quick’s greatest thrills.
100 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 10, 1921
The high school rooms seem to be a place of attraction for stray animals this year. One week the students were visited by Mr. Crow, but last week a Mr. Cat found his way into “some place unknown” and tormented the students and teachers with a pitiful mewing. The teachers tried in vain to locate the unhappy creature. Finally, Mr. Hussey found him in a ventilator and brought him back to his little owner, Miss Dorothy Stowe.
John Kelly of Colvill was in town Tuesday. He is now 81 and is as spry as ever.
V.N. Johnson installed a 2-HP electric motor in the Grand Marais school on Tuesday. It will be used for pumping water.
This is the busy season for Gilbert Gilbertson at Greenwood Lake. All of his cottages are full of hunters.
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