Daily Globe (Newspaper) - December 19, 2001, Ironwood, Michigan f TOP MIDGETS Hurley posts easy Indianhead ence win DECEMBER 19y 2001 DAY Delores Genisot i Congratulations on your retirement from the US Postal Service after 28 years as master in Your the wood Dan TONIGHT Mostly Cloudy with scattered snow showers THURSDAY A few flurries otherwise partly sunny HI 30 Page 2 MICHIGAN BUCKS HOLD OFF PESKY GRIZZLIES Big Three of Cassell Robinson combine for 69 points in victory 1 Pg. 9 GINGERBREAD CREATIONS Wakefield students par efforts on sweet treats Pg 6 GONE BOWLING Colorado State tops North Texas in New Orleans Bowl as college football s sec ond season kicks off Pg. 10 LIFETIME OF MEMORIES Coleman holds treasures Banner Thursday INDEX Comics Jason Globe A snowman sits atop a footbridge in Ironwood Township as snow finally begins to fall on the Range this morning By it does snow here Indianhead Mountain set to open three runs Thursday morning three runs ready to Indianhead Mountain Resort will once again be the first ski resort to open on the GCC taking action to address student housing need By MARGARET LEVRA Globe Staff Writer is needed at Community the iol lege administration and trustees are taking action After being in securing a local investor for the upcoming on campus housing the day an exploratory housing be conducted by Tamkin Develop ment Corporation of Los company is a 50 bed housing com plex With TDC providing develop ment construction financing and management related ser vices for a variety of public pri vate development projects throughout the United States the study will consist of a pre analysis 01 all material design construction and financ mg elements for the facility which is set for completion by Feb 1 During the past several years studies have been done on the recruitment and retention of students at Consistent with nation wide findings the recruitment and retention of aged students relates directly to a strong academic program as well as to said GCC President Donald regional guidance counselors prospective students and their parents it was determined that GCC has a need for student housing on or near the campus he added ire very interested in with a private investor for a Foster have been an and manage apartment units for quite some There has been a trend for colleges to get out of housing busi ness and have management firms invest operate stu dent t The board also approved a not to exceed 000 proposal from UP Engineers and Architects of Marquette to conduct a site possible locations for the student housing This analysis which will begin will be used to determine if the college has a buildable site on Foster Page 2) Range said Phil Fischer director of market mg Mother Nature has finally cooperated by bringing the temperatures down enough to allow and grooming to take V. According to Fischer Fred manager of hill arid his crew have made Indianhead ready for skiing The resort will welcome skiing enthusiasts once again beginning Thursday at 9 a m to the best snowmaking crew in the Midwest we are ready to welcome all oui friends another fantastic season of Fischer said Border schools to discuss sharing programs By RALPH Globe News Editor HURLEY Hurley School District will request meeting with the Ironwood dis about sharing At its regular monthly meet ing the Hurley boarc indicated it is willing give lip service sharing realize there -are many but the closest .us and we should try and with said Joe Sharing of services between districts detail about 20 years enrollments were considerably but nothing much 1 ed from those between Hurley and Ironwood in the past have centered on but that be case this time of fell by the wayside last Board Dave made the motion to request meeting with District administrator Waller v. to the ball .by setting a meeting Delia Globe Jonathan a senior foreign exchange student from Mexico will have joint custody of along with Mateus foreign exchange student from Luther L Wnght life skills teacher Kitti Colassaco assists Souza with the proper feeding technique electronic baby as part of the school s Baby Think It Over program Electronic baby helps kids think it over By DELIA JULIANO Staff Writer IRONWOOD Students in class at Luther L Wright High School used to parent a lit orally made out of a sack of flour for the body and an egg for the but Colassacco came the of the electronic baby As part of the Baby Think It Over program students in Colas sacco s class recently took home a simulated baby so real it coos happy coughs burps and at times gets fussy Baby is fed with a bottle and must be in a car seat when Each baby is designed then programmed to a real 4-month-bld that must have its diaper wakes its parents in the middle of the night with crying and BUY HERE PAY needs to have its head supported like an actual infant According to Colassacco all of the simulated babies on ferent schedules just like leal babies aie Student par nts have two minutes to determine a crying babys problem and two more minutes to satisfy the whether with a clean diaper a bottle or rocking the faux infant to sleep Everything the students do or don t do to care for Baby is later downloaded on a Some of the newborns sleep through the night while others are .to There are boy babies and girl babies and they arrive from dif ferent ethnic origins Expectant students don t know what they will get until then is drawn out of a hat purpose of the Baby Think It Over program is to give students the knowledge they make informed decisions about parenting The program is intended to help youth under stand that infants require a great deal of time and attention infants demands are and be met parenting profoundly impact one's lifestyle Some the tives aie give students a realistic picture of the effort and financial implications of how to safely hold feed burp bathe and change an understand the basics of infant physical and mental how to provided safe and healthy environment and describe common infant safety hazards and health learn how an seat that becoming a parent has lifelong The program is designed help students make informed decisions about Is the program dents who took a baby home for weekend seemed to think so. 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