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Keweenaw snow photos: March 2005  

A Photo Essay by Jim Junttila  Posted 03/29/2005 Updated 03/30/2005 and April 8, 2005

LAURIUM -- Jim Junttila of Laurium, outdoor writer and active board member of the Calumet-Keweenaw Sportsmen's Club, recently took a post-Vernal Equinox, late March, not-quite-spring photo tour from Calumet to Copper Harbor. He offers these photos to assure Keweenaw Now readers that, while the winter carnival statues in Houghton may be melting fast, Keweenaw's north end still has plenty of snow for late March. more
Photo: Keweenaw deer herd at feeding station in Eagle River. (Photo © 2005 Jim Junttila. Reprinted with permission.)

Protests mark two-year anniversary of Iraq War

Posted 03/19/2005  Updated 03/20/2005 and 03/27/05

DETROIT -- The Detroit Free Press today -- the second anniversary of the U.S. military intervention in Iraq -- reports a peaceful protest was held on Friday, Mar. 18, in downtown Detroit to denounce the war and read the names of U.S. military dead. About 300 protesters rallied in Grand Circus Park, where 1,000 grave markers (including crosses, stars of David and grave squares) commemorated U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and a flag-draped coffin represented 500 more, not represented by grave markers. The Free Press article notes "the Rev. Harry Cook, pastor of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Clawson, stood nearby and led an hour-long, nonstop reading of the names of American military personnel who have died." Rev. Cook said more protests were planned for March 19 in Michigan and around the nation. Read the Free Press article.
The Duluth News Tribune reports Candlelight vigils, prayer services and other commemorations are planned in Minnesota and northern Wisconsin to mark this second anniversary of the Iraq War. Read the article.
Update, Mar. 20: In an article titled "Two Years After Iraq Invasion, Protesters Hold Small Rallies," the The New York Times reports on March 20 that anti-war protests Saturday ranged from 8 people in Algoma, Wis., to thousands in New York and San Francisco to 15,000 in Istanbul, Turkey, and 45,000 in London. (You may have to register, for free, to read the article.)
Photo: During March 18, 2005, protest in Detroit's Grand Circus Park, "Arlington West," a display of 1,000 Markers (crosses, stars of David and squares for "other") commemorates U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. A flag-draped coffin symbolizes more than 500 not represented by grave markers, Click here or on photo for larger version. (Photo © 2005 Rudy Simons and courtesy Jim Grimm, organizer of the display and member of chapter 74, S.E. Michigan Veterans for Peace. Reprinted with permission.) See more photos of the Detroit peace event. 

Eagle Harbor Township has new Web site

Posted 03/06/2005  Updated 03/07/05

EAGLE HARBOR -- Eagle Harbor Township has a new Web site with news, documents, archived agendas and minutes, maps and more. "The Web site provides the ability to distribute large documents electronically, when it's not possible or feasible to distribute them in paper format," said Ed Kisiel, the Township's new supervisor, who is also the webmaster of the new site. "What I try to get across to the constituents is that the Web site provides transparency for municipalities or for government," Kisiel added. Check out the new site!
Photo: Eagle Harbor Lighthouse. Photo © 2005 Ed Kisiel. Reprinted with permission. (Click on photo for larger one.)

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