January, 2009

Table of Contents

No. 255
January, 2009

Our Cover “Early Arrivals” by Maggie Linn, AWS
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Feature
Pet Therapy Larry Chabot
Animals bring miracles to patients

Departments

City Notes Edited by Kristy Basolo
Highlights of important happenings in the area

Food & Other Important Things Don Curto
A brief lament and hope for Hope

Lookout Point Eric Hammerstrom
Twenty years later, Babycakes family comes full circle

More Lookout Point Larry Alexander
Mentoring highlighted during national festivities

Back Then Cindy Coleman
Michigamme Market closing felt throughout community

Arts & Humanities Tyler Tichelaar
A closer look at local literature

Health Matters George Sedlacek
Life expectancy drops for today’s youth

Locals Kristy Basolo
Irontown prepares for thirty-year anniversary

In the Outdoors Lon & Lynn Emerick
Notes from the North Country

More Arts & Humanities Larry Alexander
Civil rights struggle remembered on Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday

More In the Outdoors Leslie Allen
Journey to Fit Strip funding tiring for some

Home Cinema Leonard G. Heldreth
XXY, Mister Foe, Sukiyaki Western Django, Priceless and Flight of the Red Balloon

More Health Matters Leslie Bek
A closer look at the common cold

8-18 Media
Cell phone etiquette hot topic for youth and in schools

Out & About Carrie Usher
   This month's      Calendar      Club Guide      Art and Museum Guide



This month's Brad Veley cartoon

 



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Managing Editor Kristy Basolo
Calendar Editor Carrie Usher
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Webmaster Brian O’Day
Circulation Dick Armstrong

Contributing Artists
Rod Aldrich, Karen Anderson, Cindy Coleman,
Patty Cornish, Mike McKinney and Duane Pape

Contributing Writers Not Listed Above
Gerald Waite

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