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30 years ago

ISHPEMING — The Ishpeming High School varsity cheerleaders placed first at a regional cheerleading camp held Aug. 2 at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. And the junior varsity squad placed second. Both squads won numerous ribbons and the varsity cheerleaders also won the “Spirit Firecrackers” and “All-Squad Chant” competitions. Varsity cheerleader Kaydee Dishnow, an IHS senior, received a special honor and was chosen out of more than 200 cheerleaders to become a member of the International Cheerleading Foundation staff. Members of the varsity squad include Terra Argall, Kaydee Dishnow, Melanie Koepp, Teresa Lukkari, Melanie Major and Michelle Pearce. Junior varsity cheerleaders are Beth Duroucher, Angela Graham, Rachel Mattson, Alicia Lampi, Libby Ogea, Sarah Pedersen and Michelle Peterson. Both squads will compete in the 1991 International Open Cheerleading Championships Dec. 29 and 30 in Nashville, Tenn.

90 years ago

CHOCOLAY TOWNSHIP — It is to be doubted if very many small boys, and no inconsiderable number of older ones, see the Harvey rural school exhibit at the fair without spending considerable time there. This one-room country school in Chocolay township has developed a project that is the envy of half the school children that view it. The booth is a “nature study” collection and if there are many things in the north country not in that collection, we can’t tell what they are. The children and their teacher have been busy collecting for a long time. It is appealing not only from a real interest standpoint, but it has a great educational value in that it is opening the eye of those children to the fascinating study presented in the world about us. There is a deer foot on display. A bit farther along is a dear mouse in a jar. The bull’s eye, a muskrat’s tail and claw, strange bugs and beetles, snails, and just about everything that walks above, crawls on, or through the earth seems on view and labeled. It was worth viewing.