Wednesday, March 20, 2024
The Mining Journal 5A
Region
2 injured in Allouez Township crash
ALLOUEZ TOWNSHIP striking a traffic sign and cohol are believed to be
-- Keweenaw County soil embankment before contributing factors of the
Sheriff Deputies respond- becoming air borne and crash, which remains un-
ed to a single vehicle crash rolling over several times der investigation.
on US41 near the North prior to coming to rest on Local passers-by ren-
end of Cliff Drive in Al- the shoulder of the road- dered first aid and sum-
louez Township Wednes- way.
day evening at about 8
p.m. Deputies report
moned emergency person-
Deputies were also as-
The driver, a 49 year old nel.
man and passenger, a 48
a
southbound vehicle was year old female, both of sisted by Allouez Town-
traveling at a high rate of Calumet Township, were ship First Responders and
speed when it lost control transported via Mercy Am- Fire Department, Mer-
on the gradual corner south bulance via Portage Health cy Ambulance, Calumet
of Cliff Drive. The vehicle Systems for treatment of Township Fire Department
crossed over the center line injuries. and Superior Service Tow-
and onto the East shoulder, Excessive speed and al- ing.
Isle Royale Seaplanes moving to 6-acre
site on Torch Lake
Portage Township. Those landside property is much
By GARRETT NEESE
Daily Mining Gazette
sites in Houghton and he said. “In addition, the
HUBBELL — The sea- attempts were dropped af- larger, so it gives us plenty
planes heading to Isle ter opposition from some of land for our facility and
Royale this summer will residents, who cited noise the parking lot, which was
be taking off from a differ- concerns and in the case also a problem at the old
ent spot.
Isle Royale Seaplanes is location, possible disrup-
of the Portage Township place.”
Isle Royale Seaplanes
moving to a new location tion to a nearby eagle nest. had previously decided to
on 16th Street in Hubbell Rector said he has not return to the airport, where
starting this season, which heard any complaints so it had once operated before
starts May 19. The 6-acre far from residents near the moving to Ripley. Howev-
site will include hangar new site. er, the lengthy timeline of
and office space, docks, Rector said, compared to the build required there
The two-story “gazebo” stage in Ludington Park is shown during an Escanaba City Band
concert.The top of the octagonal structure was ripped off in a storm, leaving the band to
play out in the elements until the Karas Bandshell was built in the mid 1950s. (Delta County
Historical Society photo).
boat ramp, staff housing, the Ripley base, operating would mean they wouldn’t
expanded customer park- on Torch Lake makes more have had a place to operate
ing and a covered outdoor sense. The narrowness of this year.
Escanaba City Band marks
100th anniversary
customer waiting area.
the canal had restricted
The company would also
“We’ve been trying to their operating area for have had to speed up its
find a waterfront location takeoffs and landings. It plans to move to a larger,
for a few years, and we had also forced takeoffs to more expensive turbine
finally were successful in be due west or due east, re- aircraft. With the Hubbell
finding a place that suits gardless of wind direction. site secured, that will now
By ILSA MINOR
Escanaba Daily Press
ESCANABA — Tuesday Cote, Pat Henderson, and
marked the 100th anniver- Bruce Cassell, who leads the only place the band can be
sary of the first meeting of band today. found. Much like during
the Escanaba City Band and The first concerts were Beck’s time — when the
Paul Cowen, Cecil Collins, first performance scheduled
Chet Marrier, Jean-Paul for June 19.
But the bandshell isn’t the
our needs,” said director
of operations Jon Rector. greatly reduces the poten- Rector said.
“Our lease was up at the tial for conflicts with boat- Everything Isle Royale
previous location, so we ers, Rector said. Seaplanes needs to operate
had to make a move this “Not to say that Torch should be finished at the
year.” Lake has less boat activity, Hubbell site by the time
Being in Hubbell also happen in 2025 or 2026,
the beginning of countless played in Ludington Park band would play at Rose
hours music shared by gen- in a small, circular building, Park to bring music to the
erations of Delta County before moving to a two-sto- people of North Escana-
residents. The group is one ry, octagonal, gazebo-like ba — the band has made a
of the city’s oldest cultural platform near where the point to be wherever music
The company had most it’s just not concentrated the season starts May 19,
recently operated out of to a confined area like the Rector said. Construction
Ripley, though it had also canal, so it’s a much bet- should be fully complete
attempted to relocate to ter operating area for us,” in June.
organizations.
Veterans Memorial now is needed. That means per-
According to a notice pub- sits. Crowds would listen to forming for the Elks Club
lished March 18, 1924 in the the concerts sitting on the Flag Day Celebration, the
Daily Press, the first members hillside while children ran Waterfront Art Festival, the
of the band met at 7:30 p.m. up and down the hill playing city’s Independence Day
at city hall with Conductor in the grass. celebration, during Side-
Joseph H. Greenfield. “Time took its toll on the walk Sales, Escanaba’s
“Mr. Greenfield returned gazebo and a strong wind Labor Day and Christmas
last week from a visit to his took the roof off one day parades, and Gladstone’s
old home in England, and is when we were luckily not Fourth of July parade.
DNR’s Citizens’ Advisory
Council to meet
BARAGA — The Mich- bers, the group is sched- tees.
igan Department of Nat- uled to receive presenta-
For public comment in-
ready to begin the season’s playing. But it was nev-
2023 brought a few ex-
ural Resources’ Western tions on nearshore boating structions or additional de-
Upper Peninsula Citizens’ effects on aquatic habitat, tails please, contact Kristi
Advisory Council will results of the U.P. deer Dahlstrom at dahlstromk@
meet at Baraga Lakeside camp survey and activities michigan.gov or 906-226-
Inn’s conference room, of the Michigan Wildlife 1331.
work. He is a widely known er replaced, so we were at tra venues for the band
director and music teachers the mercy of the elements and a busy schedule for its
whose talents and ability are until the Karas Bandshell roughly 40 members. They
recognized throughout the was built,” Arol Beck, who welcomed Honor Flight vet-
country, and associated with used to play the sousaphone erans and cruise ship passen-
him in the band is a group wrote in a column for the gers, played at the Escanaba
900 U.S. Highway 41, Council.
in Baraga from 6 to 8:30 Additional business in- western Upper Peninsula
p.m. EDT Monday, March cludes updates on old citizens’ advisory councils
25. business items and reports are designed to provide lo-
The DNR’s eastern and
of some of Escanaba’s best Daily Press in 1987. Christmas Tree Lighting, the
musicians,” the notice read. Roy Pearson, a drummer in Escanaba Public Library’s
The funds for the city band the City Band and city em- ice cream social, a holiday
were first made available ployee who highly respected concert at Bay College, and,
following a ballot initiative Karas, dreamed of a bandshell through a Sackerson Foun-
spearheaded by R. B. Stack. to honor the band’s second dation grant, performed a
Greenfield joined the band conductor. Karas died July series of outreach concerts
as director after leaving En- 4, 1948, and by 1953 an- at local nursing homes.
Among agenda items from various division staff cal input to advise the DNR
selected by council mem- and council subcommit- on regional programs.
Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
Bureau of Construction Codes
gland, moving to Illinois for nual benefit concerts for the
2024 brings a season-long
a time, and then moving to Karas Memorial Bandshell celebration of the band it-
Escanaba. Historical docu- fund were well-underway, self. In addition to a special
ments from the City Band with 1954’s concert drawing event and other anniversary
and the Daily Press suggest around 200 local musicians activities now in the works
the primary reason he left to the Escanaba Junior High — the details of which will
Illinois was to alleviate his School Auditorium. Con- be announced at a later date
Administrative Rules for Construction Code - Part 8. Building
Code
Rule Set 2022-57 LR
&
Administrative Rules for Construction Code – Rehabilitation Code
Rule Set 2022-58 LR
hay fever.
Following
struction on the bandshell be- — the 100th anniversary of
Greenfield, gan in 1956. the band will be celebrated
The bandshell has been during each of the weekly
Frank Karas — born Fran-
tisek Karas in a small town the primary home for the concerts.
near Prague in what is now Escanaba City Band since
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Thursday, April 4, 2024
For more information
the Czech Republic — be- its construction. The band about the Escanaba City
came the director of the performs Wednesday eve- Band and its activities, fol-
band. After many years, he nings at the Karas Memori- low the band on Facebook
Johnson, Albert Shomento, summer, with this year’s canabacityband
09:00 AM & 01:00 PM
Michigan Library & Historical Center. First Floor Forum
Michigan Historical Center, 702 W Kalamazoo St, Lansing, MI 48915
The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs will hold a public
hearing to receive public comments on proposed changes to the
Construction Code - Part 8 Building Code rule set and Rehabilitation
Code rule set.
Pewabic trail project draws two bidders
By JIM ANDERSON
Iron Mountain
Daily News
dustrial Services Inc. of Iron tified in the package.
River. After some research, Steven Veihl,
and at the request of DTN board member, is listed on-
The proposed rules provide the latest standards to protect the health
and promote the safety and welfare of the State of Michigan residents
by regulating building and existing building installation and inspection
within the state.
a
DTN
IRON MOUNTAIN — President Chad Susott, the line as the agent for Iron
A Quinnesec company has city council Feb. 5 decided Goat, while Rock Solid has
submitted the low bid for to reject all bids.
construction of the Pewabic
Hill mountain bike trail sys- pared by Coleman Engineer-
tem at $224,662.
The proposal from Iron requires a foreman with at round of bidding in part
Goat Trail Construction least five years of experience because of a strict 60-day
LLC is well within the proj- building mountain bike trails. which was not realistic. In
ect’s $247,200 budget and Among other stipulations, the approving new bid specifi-
will be reviewed by city of contractor must have built at cations, the city extended
Iron Mountain staff to see if least 10 miles of mountain the completion date to Nov.
built thousands of miles of
A revised bid package pre- trails across the U.S.
According to Susott, trail
ing Co. of Iron Mountain specialists avoided the first
By authority conferred on the director of the department of licensing
and regulatory affairs by section 4 of the Stille-DeRossett-Hale
single state construction code act, 1972 PA 230, MCL 125.1504, and
Executive Reorganization Order Nos. 2003-1, 2008-4, and 2011-4,
MCL445.2011, 445.2025, and 445.2030.
The proposed rules will take effect 120 days after filing with the
Secretary of State. The proposed rules are published on the State of
issue of the Michigan Register. Copies of these proposed rules may
also be obtained by mail or electronic mail at the following email
address: Lara-bcc-rules@michigan.gov.
it meets specifications.
bike-specific trail types iden- 15, 2025
The only other bid opened
at Monday’s city council
meeting was $379,118
from Rock Solid Trail Con-
tracting LLC, which is based
out of Copper Harbor with a
corporate office in Benton-
ville, Ark.
A Michigan Department
of Natural Resources Trust
Fund grant of $183,200
will help build 6 miles of
public trails on city prop-
erty east of Park Avenue at
East B Street, matched by
$64,000 from the non-prof-
it Dickinson Trail Network.
Bids were first opened
Jan. 2, but those proposals
came from general contrac-
tors, including a low offer
of $262,175 from FA in-
Comments on these proposed rules may be made at the hearing, by
mail, or by electronic mail at the following addresses until 4/4/2024 at
05:00PM.
Attn: Tony Williamson, Bureau of Construction Codes
P.O. Box 30254, Lansing, MI 48909
The public hearing will be conducted in compliance with the 1990
Americans with Disabilities Act. If the hearing is held at a physical
location, the building will be accessible with handicap parking
available. Anyone needing assistance to take part in the hearing due to
disability may call 517-243-9100 to make arrangements.
906-224-1055
