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Obituary: Janet Morrow Avery, 1926-2006

Posted 03/21/2006 

GRATIOT LAKE -- Janet Morrow Avery, 79, of Gratiot Lake, Keweenaw County, died Saturday, March 11, at Marquette General Hospital, after a valiant fight, from complications of pneumonia. Keweenaw Now wishes to extend to Eugene "Bud" Avery and other members of Janet Avery's family our sincere expression of sympathy in this time of sorrow. We will never forget Janet and her determination to protect the health of Lake Superior and the quality of life here in the Keweenaw Peninsula. In addition to being a dedicated teacher, mother and grandmother, Janet Avery was an active and articulate citizen at local land use planning meetings, and she was instrumental in the early phases of protecting Bete Grise from over-development. As founder and president of AWAKE (Association Working Against Keweenaw Exploitation), she vigorously sought integrity and accountability for mining activities proposed in the western Upper Peninsula and in Wisconsin. A memorial gathering in her honor will be held in the spring. Expressions of support may be directed to the Janet M. Avery Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Gratiot Lake Conservancy, or to the Keweenaw Animal Alliance. Read the obituary. 

Engineers Without Borders benefit concert successful

By Wade Wainio  Posted 03/06/2006  Updated 03/07/2006

HANCOCK -- Keweenaw Now guest writer Wade Wainio offers his impressions of the recent benefit concert held by Engineers Without Borders (EWB), a group of Michigan Tech University students dedicated to construction and environmental projects in the developing world. The concert earned over $1,200 for EWB's present and future projects. Wainio says the concert, held at the Uphill 41 in Hancock, was a musical success as well. The bands at the concert were Annie Feed Water, Joe Ridgeway, Townes Heir (winners of the Winter Carnival Big Band Bash), Jovian Death Ray and the "reggae-fusion" band Variance. more
Photo: Keweenaw Now guest writer Wade Wainio, a musician himself, practices his guitar. (Photo ©  2006 and courtesy Wade Wainio.)

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