EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette.

30 years ago

MARQUETTE–A 1988 fourth grade class at Vandenboom Elementary School in Marquette is a winner in the President’s Environmental Youth Award National Competition. Debbie Vezzetti’s class from last year is the region five winner for its work to “Save the Estivant Pines,” according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The students’ project was chosen over entries from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. The project won second place in the state competition. With help from the class, which collected bottle and can deposits and rallied students around the Upper Peninsula to do the same, a stand of virgin white pine timber more than 500 years old in the Keweenaw Peninsula was purchased and saved from being cut down. Vezzetti and the class have been invited to an award ceremony to be held in Washington, D.C., later this year.

60 years ago

ST. IGNACE–A swamp area north of here was searched today for two Mackinac County jail fugitives believed to have stolen a churchgoer’s car after abducting and releasing him. Sought were Thomas Glennie, 21, of Alpena, and Gerald Brauley, 25, of Engadine. Glennie and Brauley escaped Friday. They had been held on breaking and entering charges. The search concentrated in the rugged area north of St. Ignace following the abduction of William Morin, Sr., by two men Saturday night. Morin’s descriptions of the two men resembled those of the wanted pair.