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CROSBY-IRONTON COURIERWednesday, May 16, 20186B

CROSBY-IRONTON SALT (ServiceAdventure Leadership Team) stu-dents bought material for and madefour fleece blankets to be given tostudents in foster care. Currently,there are 338 children in foster carein Crow Wing County. On the left isStacey Berent, who is the high

school’s Family Collaborative Workerto whom the SALT students pre-sented the blankets so she could dis-tribute them. Also pictured are SALTstudents Danielle Rydberg, Alexan-dria Henrichs, Meghan Foote,Mariah Haukos and Kathryn Ireland.

CROSBY-IRONTON HIGH School seventhgrade students attended a Science and Engi-neering Fair on May 2 in Chisholm. Students lis-tened and learned about electricity, which waspresented by the Science Museum of Min-nesota. Students also learned about raptors,which was presented by the University of Min-nesota Rapor Center. Students in small groupslearned about a variety of science topics pre-sented by scientists and engineers. Topics stu-dents learned about included animal behaviorspresented by Lake Superior Zoo; the solar sys-tem and research being done on the Iron Rangeto continue to find some of Minnesota’s only di-nosaur fossils. Students were also given time towalk through Discovery World’s History of Min-ing Museum. The field trip was paid for by theIron Range Resource and Rehabilitation Board.Students include Jacob Henderson, DanielMattsen, Maxwell Erickson and Gavin Keppers.

OUTDOOR SCIENCE STUDENTS went on a fieldtrip on Monday, April 30 to the Pine River in Jenkinsto watch the Department of Natural Resourceswork at the walleye egg stripping station. This isone of five places in the state where eggs aretaken, fertilized, washed and then brought to thehatchery in Brainerd later to be used in stockinglakes with walleyes that are the same MississippiRiver genetic strain of walleyes. Students include:Jada Roca, Haylie Anderson, Abby Fleming, LilyEngler, Jace Lundgren, Savanna Roberson andMarlee Zender.

WALLEYES FIVE YEARS of ageand older swim up stream to spawnin the spring when the water reachesa certain temperature. this field trip

was paid for by a grant from BridgesCareer Academy. Outdoor Science isa Bridges Career readiness class.

Remember When?Excerpts from the Courier files

95 years ago…Friday, May 18, 1923

The Sixth District Bankerswill hold their annual conventionin Crosby and Ironton May 24.

The grocery department ofthe Ironton Store was sold thisweek to Ed Watts of Deerwood.

Library Days will be May 18and 19. Don’t forget to donateone or more books to the CrosbyPublic Library. The Crosby Pub-lic Library Board is makingarrangements to have a FREE ex-hibition of oil painting (mostly byMinnesota artists) in the near fu-ture.

85 years ago…Thursday, May 18, 1933Early Sunday morning rob-

bers entered the Charles Oster-lund Drug Store at Deerwood andcarted away two slot machines aswell as the change in the moneytill. Other loot was also taken butto what extent is not known. Theprowlers gained entrance througha back window.

Some 60 cans of pike fin-ger-lings were received this morningfrom the state fish hatchery, to bedistributed in the nearby lakes.

Wanted—Small used en-closed car. Must be reason-able.G. H. Steinke Garage, Cuyuna.

Dean Lake voters met Satur-day afternoon at the school houseto settle what they should doabout their telephone upkeep.They final-ly voted to have amanager of each line and the pa-trons were to do repair work andkeep up the telephone at theirown expense. Frank Stike waselected manager of the Aitkin lineand Earl Welton of the Crosbyline. All work is to be done with-out any help from the town board.

75 years ago…Thursday, May 20, 1943Three St. Paul men and a

Minneapolis man paid $115.60 infines and costs for illegally pos-sessing six black bass taken out ofseason. The penalties were leviedin Justice DeMars court at Garri-son where the men were taken byWarden Christensen.

Work was started during thepast weekend on the con-struc-tion of the dike across the RabbitLake narrows at the bridge northof town, which is to be con-structed prior to the draining ofthe eastern half of Rabbit Lake tofacilitate mining operations.

Billy and Gene Foote ofManganese became Life Scoutsat the Court of Honor Saturdaynight.

A new type of concert will bepresented by the Crosby-IrontonHigh School band on Sunday at

2:30 p.m. The concert will beplayed on the tennis court north ofthe high school building.

65 years ago…Wednesday, May 20, 1953Richard Anderson, son of Mr.

and Mrs. A. T. Anderson of Iron-ton, was named valedictorian ofthe senior class at the Crosby-Ironton High School, and MissPhyllis Hunt, daughter of Mr. andMrs. Arthur Hunt of Bay Lake,was named salutatori-an.

Joe Hennick’s drive-in inLakeview, “The Spot,” is nowopen for business. The Spot servesshort orders and refreshments andalso pre-pares orders for take-outs.Phone number at The Spot is 63.

The Garrison Drive-In The-atre, 1/2 mile north of the Y Clubat Garrison, will open on Thurs-day evening, May 28, showing thefeature, “Flat Top.”

Keith Robertson, the RossLake school bus driver, took thepupils, mothers and teacher, Mrs.Reno Valentino, to the IndianTrading Post on Mille Lacs LakeTuesday. They also visited the In-dian school there.

55 years ago…Wednesday, May 15, 1963This year’s recipients of the

eighth and ninth grade cit-izenshipmedals at the Crosby-Ironton Jun-ior High School are: David Erick-son, son of the Kenneth Ericksons,and Linda Lother, daughter of theRev. Edmund Lothers, eighthgrade; Laura Ukura, daughter ofMrs. Eva Ukura, and RobertNovak, son of the Wencell No-vaks, ninth grade.

After six years as pastor of theDeerwood Baptist Church, theRev. E. E. Eisele and Mrs. Eiselehave returned to California wherethey will help in building a newchurch.

Franklin and Ironton teachershonored Miss Margaret Metzgerat a retire-ment party on Mondayof this week after school.

New staff employed last nightat the School Board meeting atISD 182 were Mrs. Mabel Thuneof Fosston, to teach English nineand 10; Mrs. Shirley Homuth ofAitkin, physics and math; and Flo-rian Lange of Ellendale, social sci-ence 12.

45 years ago…Wednesday, May 16, 1973Susan Miller was named vale-

dictorian of the Crosby-IrontonHigh School senior class. TomKoop was named salutatorian.

Fourteen District 24 schoolswere represented in the first dis-trict all-girl track meet ever held inthe history of the district. The

events were run off yesterday atthe new C-I track field.

The Irondale Rangers 4-HClub have announced their inten-tions of putting a bench in front ofthe Deerwood Post Office.

Craig Huxford of Crosby-Ironton, will take part in the AAUNational Wrestling tournament inMissoula, MT, in June as a resultof his second-place finish in thestate meet held at Bloomington.

The Crosby Theatre is show-ing “Pete ‘n’ Tillie,” starring Wal-ter Matthau and Carol Burnett.

35 years ago…Wednesday, May 18, 1983Traffic through the Range

area was brisk in the hours prior tothe weekend opener, but equallybrisk winds and sagging tempsfound a number of anglers chang-ing their minds about hitting thewaters. Serpent Lake was a bitcalmer than some of the largerbodies and a number of fisher-per-sons tried its waters over theweekend.

The Crosby Chamber ofCommerce approved the con-struction of a dock for use at theCrosby Park boat landing, provid-ing the city council approves ofthe gift. Mel Hallin of the TradingPost said the dock would be a wel-come addition for older peopleand for those loading up a boatafter launching. A volunteer groupwas appointed to do the actualwork.

Dave Walker, Dave Stimac,and Greg Selisker were named tothe Mid-State conference baseballhonor list. Shad Drake and SteveKovall were given honorablementions.

A large, framed “Croft Mine”painting was painted and donatedby C. Mauritz Erkkila of Fairfax,VA. Erkkila was born and raisedin Crosby. The painting was do-nated in memory of his father,Carl Erkkila, who worked in theCroft and other mines of theCuyuna Range, 1909-1937.

25 years ago…Wednesday, May 19, 1993Jill Kirzeder of Crosby-Iron-

ton High School has been namedas one of 2,600 stu-dentsstatewide that have received a Na-tional Merit Scholarship.

Jessie Benson, Crosby, foundsuccess at Huntington Pit when hecaught a three-pound, 12-ouncebrown trout.

Jerry Ferrier caught a 22-pound, seven-ounce northern onopening day. The fish is 44-incheslong and has a girth of 21-inches.

The Crosby-Ironton varsi-tygirls’ track team placed fourth inthe Ranger Invitational held at C-

I Friday. The boys’ track teamplaced fifth.

The Crosby Chamber ofCommerce welcomed HaukosManufacturing to the area at a rib-bon cutting ceremony. HaukosManufacturing is a division ofLori-Esther. Troy and Bill Haukosare co-owners of the business.

The school board of Inde-pendent School District #182 ap-proved the low bid received toinstall a handi-capped access ele-vator in the junior high building,at the board meeting held Mon-day.

15 years ago…Wednesday, May 14, 2003Winners of the envelope dec-

orating contest, part of a fund-raiser for Girl Scouts -Land ofLakes Council, were CadetteArielle Schur, Junior MarissaCorey, and Brownie AllisonGregg.

Neil Tesdahl, fifth gradeteacher at Cuyuna Range Elemen-tary School, was named the Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year.

Graduating Cub Scouts ofDen 1, Brady Hallin, Keifer Wat-son, Ben Carlson and Justin Ham,won the Arrow of Light award,the highest achievement in CubScouting.

Cuyuna Range ElementarySchool was just one of 16 areaschools to receive Child Identifi-cation Kits for distribution tokindergarten students from CrowWing Power.

The 18th Annual MinelandClean-up near Crosby was a greatsuccess last Wednesday night.Over 150 people from around theregion volunteered to help cleanup the Crosby mine pits, now of-ficially the Cuyuna State Recre-ational Area.

5 years ago…Wednesday, May 15, 2013Jessica Holmvig is the new

Cuyuna Lakes Chamber of Com-merce Director effective Friday,May 24.

The projectrevive mural willbe unveiled on May 23 at the newCrosby Mall Park located onMain Street.

Trevor Fisher, a senior, re-ceived a perfect attendance awardform Principal Jim Christensonand Superintendent Dr. JamieSkjeveland. Fisher has not misseda day of school since beginningKindergarten.

The Bay Lake Area Lionssponsored a Bike Rodeo on May18 in the Salem Lutheran Churchparking lot in Deerwood.

Graduation will be held onMay 24 for class of 2013 atCrosby-Ironton High School.

School of Minessummer camps

South Dakota School ofMines and Technology sum-mer camps are designed to befun and hands-on, and are forhigh school students (gradesnine - 12). Each camp in RapidCity, SD lasts five days.  Stu-dents live on campus and alsoget to explore some of the ac-tivities and attractions  offeredby the famous Mt. RushmoreRegion.

The School of Mines offersunique and high-quality pro-gramming for our next genera-tion of scientists and engineers.Their goal is to turn youngminds on to the astounding,challenging, and fun worlds ofscience and engineering,through hands-on activities andone-on-one interactions withfaculty and graduate students.It's a great opportunity for par-ticipants to get a glimpse ofwhat their future might holdand meet other students whoshare similar abilities and inter-ests.  For complete informationand to register visit www.sdsmt.edu/SummerCamps/. Scholar-ships are also available throughthis site. 

This notice was providedby the Cuyuna Lakes Educa-tion Foundation (CLEF) tobring attention to a great pro-gram. Contact 820-5334 withquestions. 

In celebration of its80th  anniversary, CentralLakes College will add fivealumni to its previously estab-lished 75 Outstanding Alumni(who were chosen to celebratethe college’s 75th  anniver-sary.) Honorees from CentralLakes College and its predec-cessor colleges (Brainerd Jun-ior College, BrainerdCommunity College, BrainerdTechnical College and StaplesTechnical College) are an in-

Central Lakes seeking outstanding alumnispiration to the next generationof graduates and to the com-munity at large. 

We are looking for Out-standing Alumni honorees whohave distinguished themselvesby: 

—contributions made inhis/her particular field ofwork, 

—professional and per-sonal accomplishments, or 

—acts for the betterment ofhumanity. 

You are invited to nomi-nate a candidate as a CentralLakes College OutstandingAlumni. Self-submissions arealso welcome. All nominationsare due by  Friday, June 8.Please visit our Web siteat www.clcmn.edu/outstandin-galumni  to complete yournomination (you can also viewa listing of our current 75 Out-standing Alumni honorees).Questions?  Contact Amy at855-8135 or e-mail amatter@clcmn.edu.

—Brenda Booth photoMARIAH HAUKOS DISPLAYS her painting fromthe 12th grade Independent Study Painting classat Crosby-Ironton High School.

GraduationMay 18 at C-I

Graduation will be held onFriday, May 18 beginning at 7p.m. The milestone event isopen to the public.