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Club Indigo to present Hitchcock film June 3

By Joe Kirkish  Posted 05/30/2005

HOUGHTON -- The Mu Beta Psi music fraternity presents the June food and film event (Club Indigo) Friday, June 3, at the Calumet Theatre. The movie is vintage Alfred Hitchcock, Foreign Correspondent (1940), in which the great director of suspense mixes comedy with seriousness in a political situation. Kirkish notes this film has been considered by some critics to be Hitchcock's finest and most important film. The movie begins at 7:15 p.m., preceded at 6 p.m. by a Dutch gourmet buffet created by chef Erik Karvonen of Eagle River's Fitzgerald restaurant. Reservations for the buffet must be made at least a day in advance, by calling the Theatre: 337-2610. Note: Guest columnist Joe Kirkish recently celebrated his 80th birthday. Happy Birthday, Joe! more

Guatemala Update 

By Sue Ellen Kingsley  Posted 05/18/2005

HANCOCK -- Guest author Sue Ellen Kingsley, director of the Copper Country Guatemalan Accompaniment Project (CCGAP), and five other local residents recently returned from a visit to the Guatemalan village of Fronterizo, where they delivered medical and school supplies and $3500 raised here in the Copper Country by CCGAP and the Copper Country Reading Council for a new school. Kingsley describes the warm welcome they received and the people's enthusiasm about building the school. more

Wal-Mart 

By Ray Molzon  Posted 05/11/2005

HANCOCK -- Guest columnist Ray Molzon says an escape to "God's Country" is only relative if one notices, on Houghton's M-26, the pattern of commercial development "that can be found along the main highway of practically any town of decent size" -- giant buildings, fast-food restaurants, no sidewalks, and "a looming Wal-Mart ... currently being metamorphosed into a Super Wal-Mart." Citing satire from a favorite T.V. program, South Park, Molzon questions both the quality of Wal-Mart goods and the labor practices behind the giant corporation's low prices. more

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