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Ironwood Township to expand park
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By DAVID SIM dsim@yourdailyglobe.com
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — On any Saturday morning during the fall, it can be hard to find parking near the Gogebic County Airport. Kids chasing after soccer balls and parents yelling encouragement are both part of the atmosphere. In the upcoming months, the Airport Recreation Park could receive some major development upgrades. Once completed, the park will a pavilion with indoor restrooms, a playground, paved walking and biking trails, a well, septic system and picnic tables, among the six soccer fields and baseball diamond that already occupy the space. “We are very excited about this project,” Ironwood Township Supervisor Kim Mattson said. “It will be a highlight in Ironwood Township that can be used by people all over the Range.” The park is currently home to the Range Strikers Soccer Club, the home of the Ironwood Red Devil boys and girls soccer teams and other recreational groups, but the park is open for use by anybody. On a given Saturday over 300 kids from all over the area occupy the soccer pitches. The township has received letters of support from area municipalities, neighboring soccer coaches and parents. The development will be paid in part through a $291,400 grant that was recently selected by the Michigan Department of Natural
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A bulldozer helps clear brush for a parking lot at the Ironwood Township Recreation Park on July 24, 2010. Snow Country Contracting donated equipment and labor for this part of the project. Resources and Environment and signed by former Gov. Jennifer Granholm. The bill funding the project must clear the final hurdle of state legislature approval, which is slated to come under consideration around the end of summer 2011. Once approved, it could take about a month for the township to sign the project agreement and receive funding. With the approval of the MDNRE, it does allow the township to begin engineering
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and design work for the trails and buildings. The grant was written for $393,800, but the full amount was not awarded. The difference is the required 26 percent that the township will be required to match, according to Mattson. It can come in the form of donated labor and contributions. Mattson said that the township has already received offers of donated labor and materials from Coleman Engineering, Lou Bonaguaro, Jake’s Excavating, John Suutala and Snow Country Contracting. In July 2010, Snow Country Contracting cleared an area that is the proposed site of a gravel parking lot that will help alleviate much of the parking congestion that trou-
bles the park on weekends. In addition to the donations the township’s parks and recreation committee will be doing fund raising. “Our parks and rec committee is actively looking for donations and we’re going to be doing a letter campaign for groups that could help us with man hours from area groups,” said Mattson. A grant application for the same project was submitted in 2009, but was not selected. Mattson said this park will be something for the township to build on for a long time. “Whether you have kids of not, how can you not support something that adds so much to the community?” she said. “Recreation is one of the drawing points for people coming back here and this park just builds on that.”
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ASHLAND, Wis. — Ashland Memorial Medical Center, a critical access hospital with 64 full-time physicians on staff and 425 employees, serves as a regional medical referral center for patients from seven northwestern Wisconsin counties and Gogebic County. Ashland MMC opened as a private, not-for-profit hospital in 1972, combining the services previously provided by Trinity Hospital and Ashland Community Hospital, both located in Ashland. It is the only hospital located in Ashland, Bayfield and Iron counties. The hospital offers a series of educational programs designed to give people information about healthy living and about making lifestyle choices to improve health. In addition to educational programs, a number of support groups meet at MMC. They provide specialized topics for interested people. For information on various support groups, call 715-685-5175. Some of the support groups offered include: Celiac and Gluten Intolerance Support Group: Meets bi-monthly, the second Tuesday, 6 to 7 p.m and is led by Theresa Hoyles, a registered dietitian. Breastfeeding: Meets one Monday a month, 6 to 9 p.m., call for dates. Childbirth for First-Time Parents: A four-session class that meets on Wednesdays each month, 6 to 9 p.m., with occasional weekend classes, call for exact dates. Childbirth Review: Meets one Monday a month, 6 to 9 p.m., call for dates. Living with Cancer: The group meets the second Tuesday of each month, 8 to 9 a.m. Living with Cancer Skills Group: The group meets the fourth Tuesday of each month, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Bay Area Heart Club and Living with Diabetes: The group meets the third Tuesday of every month, from 1 to 2 p.m. Pre-Diabetes and Diabetes Self-Management Education: Diabetes patients and those who assist in the care of people with diabetes learn the basic skills and information they need to self-manage their diabetes and prevent complications of diabetes.
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Zumba: Staying fit with a Latin flair
By JON HAWLEY jhawley@yourdailyglobe.com
IRONWOOD — You’re never too far north to get through the winter with Latin flair. That’s the mindset of more than a dozen women who participate in weekly Zumba Fitness classes at Main Street Fitness in Ironwood. Led by certified Zumba Fitness instructor Lorie Lahti, the women are but a few of the many across the globe who have been swept off their feet by Zumba. According to the official Zumba website, “since its inception in 2001, Zumba Fitness has grown to become the world’s largest — and most successful — dance-fitness program with more than 10 million people of all shapes, sizes and ages taking weekly Zumba classes in over 90,000 locations across more than 110 countries.” “I had quite a few people asking about it,” Lahti said, explaining that she came out of retirement as an aerobics instructor last year to begin learning how to offer the classes. Now she says between roughly eight and 13 women have sashayed into her classes, which normally start at 5:30 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays. Lahti said Zumba has sev-
eral advantages over regular aerobic work-outs. “It’s exercise, but it feels like you’re dancing,” she said, explaining the classes focus on keeping up with and enjoying the fast-paced music, rather than just counting off repetitions that tend to be, well, repetitive. Lahti said another appeal of Zumba work-outs is that they spring across musical genres. Though Zumba started with salsa and merengue, it can also include reggaeton, hiphop, Bohemian, and Bollywood styles of music. Lahti was even surprised to find country music had been integrated into Zumba. Though the music may be ever-changing, Lahti said the results were reliable for her Zumba students: more energy, better health, and, of course, weight loss. “Everyone’s always so happy with that,” Lahti said. One of Lahti’s students, Penny Perry, was fairly new to the classes but no stranger to exercise, and said she adds Zumba onto winter activities like skiing and her own exercise regimen at home. Adding she also likes dancing, she said exercise is “more fun when you have music.” Lahti said Zumba isn’t just for fitness buffs; her students
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Zumba instructor Lori Lahti, second from left, leads her Zumba Fitness class in a warm-up routine Thursday night at Main Street Fitness in Ironwood. The class, which has about a dozen women, features a wide variety of music and dance routines all aimed at keeping the exercise program fun and fresh. Lahti began offering the classes last October, and said she intends to offer classes in the future for children and seniors. range in age from their 20s to their 60s, and she said she teaches variations to suit varying ages and fitness levels. “People can step in and take it at their own pace,” she said, giving an example of a cha-cha routine in which a lunge can be added or taken out as suits the student. With her classes a success
thus far, Lahti is planning to step things up in the coming months. On top of certified Zumba Fitness and Zumba Toning instruction, Lahti said she hopes to offer Zumbatomic and Zumba Gold classes this spring, which are for kids and seniors respectively. Lahti’s first certification
came last July for the basic program, and in December she received certification for a toning specialty. While Zumba can be fun, the Zumba organization takes it seriously; Lahti joked that when she was starting the classes, she got a call from the organization correcting how she was advertising them.
Marshfield Clinic expands heart care to Mercer MERCER, Wis. — Beginning in early December, the Marshfield Clinic/Ministry Heart Care team expanded its services to the Marshfield Clinic Mercer Center. Dr. Richard Reinhart, cardiologist, Marshfield Clinic, began seeing patients in Mercer, expanding the number of locations where he and the cardiology team continue to provide cardiology care in the Northwoods. The Marshfield Clinic Mercer Center is served by Dr. Nils Olson, D.O., family medicine and Peggy Bronsberg, family medicine, nurse practitioner. Reinhart has long-standing ties to many communities in the Northwoods. He began seeing patients at the former Lakeland Medical Associates facility in Minocqua in the early 1980s. When the Lakeland facility transitioned to Marshfield Clinic, Reinhart was part of the dedication of the new clinic in Minocqua in 1990. Besides Mercer, Reinhart and the Marshfield Clinic/Ministry Health Care heart care team provide cardiology care for patients in Crandon, Eagle River, Minocqua, Park Falls, Rhinelander and Tomahawk. The cardiology team also includes Dr. Tom Roy, Dr. Rohit Srivastava, Dr. Guruprasad Naik, Dr. Dan Gavrila as well as nurse practitioner Sherrie Gilbert. “Personally, I like living and working in rural environments and I really enjoy the climate of
Northern Wisconsin. It’s a clean, unspoiled and healthy place to live – and the people who live here are a special group of individuals who are very neighborly and just pleasant to be around,” said Reinhart. “I’ve known Dr. Olson at the Mercer center for 30 years, since the days when we both practiced through Lakeland Medical Associates,” said Reinhart. “I’ve seen many patients from the Mercer and Upper Peninsula area and feel that it’s important that we bring services to our patients instead of making them travel great distances to see us. “That’s been my philosophy about why I’ve been providing cardiology care in so many small Northern communities for so many years. It’s one of the reasons that when Dr. Rebecca Perry in Crandon asked if I would consider providing cardiology care for patients in Crandon, I was happy to agree. Dr. Perry and I have known each other since she was my resident in 1980. The relationships I have with both the physicians and the patients in our Northwoods communities go back quite a long way. I now live in Minocqua full time, which makes traveling to sites like Eagle River, Mercer, Rhinelander, Tomahawk and Crandon feasible,” Reinhart said. For more information about the Marshfield Clinic/Ministry Health Care heart care team, call 800-853-0553.
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Decisions ... decisions ... decisions I Regional Hospice helps family members through tough times By KATHY MAKI Special to the Globe
Every day we are confronted with countless numbers of choices. Each one must be considered and decisions must be made. Should we eat corn flakes or bran for breakfast, maybe some fruit? Should I wear the blue shirt or white
one? Can I afford a new car or should I wait? So it goes … choices, big and small and frequently some decisions are put off only to be reconsidKathy ered, yet Maki again tomorrow. In most situations, we insist on making our own decisions and choices. As children we
attempted to make choices, even if we knew our parents were the final decision makers. As young adults, we considered choices and made decisions about college, our first job, moving away from home, getting married, and having children. Even now, choice and making decisions occupy much of our daily routine. Life is all about the choices we make. Interestingly, however, one of the most important of life’s decisions is made for us … leaving us with little or no opportunity for choice. Choices
at the end of life are, all too often, deferred to others, especially when it comes to making choices regarding our medical options including hospice. It is safe to say that most people would probably choose not to need hospice care at all, however the choice of having or not having a life limiting illness is seldom in our power. When we are confronted with a decision about hospice, many will defer to others who are all too willing to make the decision for us. Unfortunately, their choices are often based not on our wishes or goals but on their preferences and conveniences, no matter how well intentioned they may be. Perhaps we are more comfortable letting someone else make the decision because it seems less ‘real’ that way. Or maybe we fell less vulnerable when we don’t have to make the decision ourselves. However the choice of how we wish to live our lives can only be ours. So too is the choice of hospice to help us meet our life goals and to protect our vulnerability while facing life’s final reality. We make many choices dur-
ing our lifetime; shouldn’t we also have a choice when it comes to the end of life? If hospice becomes the most appropriate medical option for us, we must make our own choices. And if we choose hospice care, finding the right hospice requires us to make informed decisions using the same sensible approach we would when deciding to take a new job or buy a new car. To make an informed decision, it is important to compare hospice programs and services that are available to us. We must decide for ourselves which hospice is best suited to care for us and help us achieve our goals at the end of our lives. Please call Regional Hospice at 906-932-7076 for more information on the programs and services we offer. Regional Hospice will be moving soon to a new location. The office will be located in the Gogebic Ontonagon Community Action Agency’s building on 100 S. Mill St. in Bessemer. The move will take place by April 1. More announcements on the move will be forthcoming.
Are you, or do you have a loved one, having more difficulty at home? Sky View Nursing Center is a 31 bed Intermediate Care Facility located in Hurley, WI. Sky View offers a independent home-like environment with bonuses of 24 hour nursing care, meals, laundry, housekeeping, and maintenance services. Residents are worry free to enjoy daily activities with all the comforts of home including a large deck and a beautiful mountain view. You and your family can rest at ease knowing you are receiving the care that you need and deserve. You are welcome to visit and tour Sky View at 309 Iron St. in Hurley, Wisconsin. Sky View is certified to accept Wisconsin medical assistance. For more information, please call (715)561-5646 and ask for Kristi Kivi, RN, Director of Nursing.
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Daily exercise important for health, happiness By RAY SHARP Western U.P. Health Department
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From left, Geri Gentile, Benita Beckman and Janet Wanden walk the green track on the second floor of the Lindquist Student Center gymnasium.
Walking a dry track I GCC offers health club facilities By RALPH ANSAMI ransami@yourdailyglobe.com
IRONWOOD — On a snowy Wednesday winter morning, there was a lot of walking going on at the Gogebic Community College Lindquist Student Center gymnasium. About a dozen people circled the gym on the second floor, getting their daily exercise. Students and senior citizens chatted as they walked and jogged around the green track. Jim and Janet Gheller had just completed their morning walk and were heading out for breakfast. Lindquist Student Center director Rich Reynolds said the walking track is popular and serves a purpose. “We’ve had a couple of people who could barely move when they first came here and now they’re walking about a mile,” Reynolds said. “We’re definitely seeing the benefits,” he added. He has a small office on the second floor, adjacent to the walking track. Jeanne Graham, GCC’s director of admissions and public informa-
tion, said there is no charge for exercising on the track above the gym. “People of all ages walk the track in the gym. You see people from their mid70s down to little Rich children,” she Reynolds said. “It’s a great asset to the community and for the college students,” she said. Some walk for rehabilitation, while others walk just to stay in shape, she said. Eleven laps around the gym equals one mile. While walking the track is free, there’s a $3 daily charge to use the other gym facilities and a $1 weight room charge. Ten-punch passes for gym use are available for $24. The daily fee to use the GCC pool is $2, payable to the lifeguard. Reynolds said the walking track above the gym gets about three times more business in the winter than in the summer. The walking track opens at 6 a.m. Mondays through Fridays and closes at 7 p.m. on Mondays and
Wednesdays. It closes at 9 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays and at 4 p.m. on Fridays. Weekend hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays and 2 to 6 p.m. on Sundays. He advises anyone who plans on using the gym’s track to check online for a calendar of events to avoid any conflicts.
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Reynolds has been working as the director of the Lindquist Center since September. He previously worked at a community college in Toledo, as director of its recreation center and campus events. When he saw the job opening at GCC, he quickly applied. “I saw it as an opportunity to be more involved in student services and I prefer small towns,” he said. He graduated with a Lawrence, Mich., senior class of just 42 students. The town has a population under 1,000. Reynolds said he plans on making a request to purchase new equipment for the cardio area and he will work at developing more wellness programs for GCC students, staff and the community.
With every new year comes the inevitable resolutions to eat better, exercise more and lose a few pounds. But often times the best intentions fade quickly in the reality of our busy lives. One secret to following through on those resolutions is to make daily physical activity a part of your routine, instead of a special event that requires extra time, effort, equipment and a trip to the health club. Many of the healthiest (and happiest) people I know get their exercise doing simple activities, alone or with friends, often starting and ending at their own front doors. Biking to work, walking with a co-worker at lunch time, walking with a family member or the family pet after dinner, snowshoeing, splitting and stacking firewood, and working in the garden are a few examples of convenient and enjoyable ways to get daily physical exercise. In public health, we encourage people to exercise because it can help them maintain a healthy body composition, avoid chronic disease and live more disability-free years. By now, I’m sure everyone knows that moderate physical activity on most days is a key to health for peoRay ple of all ages. But, with the draSharp matic increases in overweight and obese children and adults over the last 30 years, clearly that knowledge is not enough. It is important to design our communities so that they make daily physical activity safe and accessible for everyone. The Western Upper Peninsula Health Department, with help from Michigan Department of Community Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides training and technical assistance to communities that want to develop policies and facilities that promote physical activity. Two examples are the Complete Streets and Safe Routes to School programs. Complete Streets is a policy that requires communities to consider the needs of pedestrians, cyclists and transit users of all ages and abilities, as well as the needs of motorists, when planning new roads or street renovations. Houghton recently passed a Complete Streets ordinance, becoming just the sixth city in Michigan and the first in the U.P. to do so. Ironwood is exploring the feasibility and benefits of adopting Complete Streets policies. Another program that promotes daily physical activity is Safe Routes to School. This school year, the health department is working with schools in Houghton, Dollar Bay, Calumet, L’Anse, Ontonagon and Bessemer to convene a Safe Routes planning team, survey parents and students, plan events that promote walking or biking to school, and develop a strategic plan for making non-motorized travel to and from school safer for children who live within a mile of their schools. After a school develops a Safe Routes plan, it may be eligible for grant funding to make improvements to the surrounding streetscape to enhance safety and make it easier for children to get daily exercise as a part of their normal activities. Editor’s note: Ray Sharp is the WUP Health Department’s Manager of Community Planning and Preparedness.
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Strong Women keep active By DIANE MONTZ dmontz@yourdailyglobe.com
IRONWOOD — A dozen women age 47 to 84 say a new exercise program has made them stronger and more active. Strong Women uses hand and ankle weights in low intensity strength training, according to Kathy Maki, instructor of a group that meets twice weekly at Trinity Lutheran Church in Ironwood. “It has definitely improved my strength,” Sonja Baumeister said Thursday at the church before the workout began. At 47, she’s the youngest in the group. Baumeister said she didn’t usually do weight-bearing exercise, but even the “little ones” like wrist curls had helped her. The workout begins with stretching — the Turtles’ hit “Happy Together” set the pace on Jan. 27 — moves to leg exercises with ankle weights, then upper body exercises with hand weights, and ends with different slower stretches to cool down. Some of the exercises are done seated. For others the women use a chair for support. They do two sets of 10 repetitions for each exercise. Maki set a steady pace, with time to shake out muscles between exercises. She corrected stance and form on occasion, suggesting lighter weights or a different support. The women can use different weights for different exercises, and heavier weights as their strength increases.
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Kathy Maki, above, leads her Strong Women class through upper body exercises with hand weights. Maki, who has led three sessions of the program and works out on her own, lifts 8-pound weights. Others in the class use 3- or 5-pound weights. Virginia LaFave, Mercer, Wis., left, and Barb Suomi, Wakefield, are in the class, which meets twice a week at Trinity Lutheran Church in Ironwood.
ALL ABOUT PREVENTION Strong Women classes are offered in Hurley and Mercer, Wis., as well. Zona Wick, director of the Iron County Health Department, said she and Toni Rogers, a now-retired University of Wisconsin-Extension worker in the county, brought the program to the area three years ago. “It’s all about prevention,” Wick said of Strong Women. “In public health, that’s a big part of what we do, is prevention.” Strong Women was created by Miriam Nelson, a professor at Tufts University. She based it on years of research on how strength training and proper nutrition improve the health of women of all ages. Wick notes that the program is “evidence-based,” meaning there is scientific documentation that it works. The instructor’s manual says Strong Women can help relieve arthritis pain, restore balance, reduce falls, strengthen bone, help with weight maintenance, improve glucose control, foster a healthy state of mind, improve sleep and build healthy heart tissue.
ENTHUSIASTIC INSTRUCTOR Certified instructors complete a daylong training. Maki went to Bayfield, Wis., last year with a group from the area.
“I just enjoyed it so much, I kept it up on my own at home all summer — and I’m not an exercise person,” she said. Before Strong Women, Maki said, her hips ached and she was unable to do overhead activities such as washing a ceiling. “I can’t believe how my stamina — how everything’s just improved,” she said. “I really believe in this program. We have fun.” The women in her class agreed. They bantered over technique, offered tips to newcomer Shirley Martini, of Ironwood — at 84 the senior member of the group, and advised a photographer “don’t take our picture” during a downward stretch from the waist at the end of the workout. The women said they like the program because each person can work at her own level.
“Some of our muscles are older than others,” said Virginia LaFave, of Mercer. LaFave uses a lighter weight in her left hand, to compensate for a shoulder injury. “You do what you can do,” she said. Connie Niemi of Bessemer is in her second session of Strong Women. She said she felt she needed to be more active and stretching and building her muscles. “I feel less stiff, because I’m moving more of the muscles I haven’t used in the past,” Niemi said. They also enjoy the rapport and support of the group. “We do it together,” said Pam Wilutis of Ironwood. Barb Suomi of Wakefield said the program was a “good starter to build a stronger core.” Suomi said she works in a nursing
home and sees broken bones and rehabilitation. “It’s kind of a wakeup for me — I’m not as young as I used to be,” she said. Even a lifelong exerciser like Ellen Metco, of Hurley, who wore a SISU shirt, said that, over 60, “you’ve got to work a lot harder.” Metco sounded a clarion call to work out. She and her husband moved here from Appleton four years ago. They walk and ski. Metco works at ABR’s cross country ski complex and marvels at the skiers in their 70s and 80s. Older people here are tougher, she said. “I really admire that,” Metco said. “I am going to be one of them,” Suomi said. “I am one of them,” LaFave said.
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Summer camp offers kids much By GERRY TRACZYK Hurley School District Community Education Director
The Iron County Summer Youth Camp involves a yearlong planning process. In July 2010, the 10th annual camp took place at North Lakeland Discovery Center in Manitowish Waters for 72 third, fourth and fifth grade students from the Hurley and Mercer K-12 schools. Camp directors Gloria Fauerbach, Iron County UWExtension Youth Agent, and myself start the planning process by recruiting ninth through 12th grade students from the two school districts. Interested students fill out an extensive application form, obtain referrals from teachers, and attend meetings, where they plan the theme of the camp, the activities that will take place, and the T-shirt design. About 25 high school students are chosen to be camp counselors. Training includes an overnight camping experience at Saxon Harbor, at which time they receive first aid and CPR
training from Geneva Smiles of Aspirus Grand View, and flag raising and lowering techniques from local veterans. They also participated in teambuilding activities and learning campfire songs and skits. Team-building activities focus on the strengths of each individual, matched with complementary strengths in other counselors. All counselors have camp responsibilities such as teaching recreation, science, photography, crafts, special activities, or being a lifeguard or cabin counselor. Experienced counselors are paired with new ones to be mentors and guides. Each year, parents and other community individuals volunteer at camp, helping prepare meals and support counselors in arts and crafts. They also support recreation at the swim front, campfires and supervise cabins during lights out. In 2010, 27 individuals volunteered 564 hours during the four-day camp. Three volunteers, Denny
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Hagemann dental practice offers much in Hurley I Dentist office located in old home on Fifth Avenue By JON HAWLEY jhawley@yourdailyglobe.com
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Dentist Paul Hagemann stands in his office on the second floor of his practice on Fifth Avenue North in Hurley. Having practiced dentistry in Hurley for decades, Hagemann is continuing to expand his repertoire of dental services, which range from routine work to surgeries to aesthetic boosts to his patients’ smiles. He is also an avid outdoorsman; behind him is the head of a deer he bagged while hunting.
HURLEY — For more than 20 years, Dr. Paul Hagemann has provided dental services while nestled in a nearly century-old house on Fifth Avenue North in Hurley. Both the house and his dental career have a rich oral history. Born in Racine, Hagemann said he began his dental education in the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where he met his wife-to-be, Karen. With his wife having family in Hurley, Hagemann said he relocated his practice to Hurley in July of 1980.
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Saying he was drawn to the slower and friendlier pace of practicing in the Northwoods, along with having a quieter, safer community to raise his children, Hagemann purchased the house after it sat empty for more than a decade. “It was very workable for my idea of a dentist’s office,” Hagemann said, adding that there were many open rooms, with large windows and good lighting for what would become his three treatment rooms. Though the house, built around 1917, required heating, plumbing and electrical work, it retains its original woodwork and a more cozy feeling than more modern dentists’ offices. Today, as a dentist certified as a Doctor of Dental Surgery, Hagemann provides check-ups and routine dental work along with various oral and facial surgeries, such as bridges and denture work. His certification also allows him to do emergency surgery in cases of traumatic accidents. He’s also no stranger to difficult work, saying that he often sees low-income patients who have delayed necessary work, often making their dental problems worse in the process. “The main thrust of dentistry is prevention,” he said, but added he enjoys doing restorative work. Beyond improving his
patients’ health, he said he enjoys sharing the aesthetic benefits of dentistry with people who’ve become insecure about their smiles. “It changes their whole outlook,” Hagemann said, giving examples of patients who might need a bridge or an implant for front teeth, causing them to avoid big smiles. Hagemann’s practice also includes two hygienists, and he’s recently gotten certification in facial aesthetics, which allows him to offer other ways to improve patients’ appearances, including using botox. Hagemann’s practice can also provide x-rays, and he said he’s considering getting a laser scalpel this year. “The laser can cut on a molecular level,” Hagemann said, explaining that such precise cuts can reduce bleeding and inflammation, which shaves several weeks off a patient’s recovery from surgery. Though not bashful about new technology, Hagemann maintains some classic Northwoods hobbies, including hunting, skiing and camping. He also collects vintage shotguns. Even though his kids, now in their 20s, have left the area, Hagemann said he and his wife intend to retire here, and live on their 74-acre property in Kimball.
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Pfeiffer retires from Iron County Health Department
Karen Pfeiffer was honored on Jan. 24, her final day of work at the Iron County Health Department with cake and coffee.
By ZONA WICK Iron County Health Dept. Health Officer
HURLEY — The Iron County Health Department recently celebrated the retirement of Karen Pfeiffer, who provided the county with an environmental health program for the past 10 years. Pfeiffer was hired Jan. 24, 2001. The environmental health program provides licensing and inspection for restaurants, lodging, campgrounds, recreational-educational camps, tattoo and body art studios, and swimming pools. Inspections are also conducted at temporary food stands at Iron County events. Non-profit organizations in Iron County that hold fund-raisers involving food may contact the health department for a Safe Food Handling packet. Pfeiffer was also involved in human health hazard complaints and food and water contaminant outbreaks. Assuring the safety of our water and food supply is a priority of the health department in Iron County as well as the entire state. The health department is currently contracting with the
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Iron County Health Department workers include, from left: first row — Julann Ritter, Melissa DeCarlo and Sue Herlevi; and second row — Karen Pfeiffer, Nadine Bond, Liana Saari and health officer Zona Wick. Vilas County Health Department and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh to provide environmental health services.
The Iron County Health Department is an agent for the Wisconsin Food Safety and Recreational Licensing Section.
Iron County Health Department staff, programs Zona Wick is the Iron County Health Department’s Health Officer. Others in the department include: Julann Ritter, RN; Liana Saari, RN; Nadine Bond, NP, RN; and program assistants Melissa DeCarlo and Sue Herlevi. The sevenmember staff (three full-time and four part-time) provides over 20 programs for the health and safety of Iron County residents. Some of the programs include: reproductive health; radon; Strong Women; community garden; child immunizations and adult immunizations; lead; WIC; environmental health including human health hazard; communicable disease investigation and prevention, Birth to 3; walk-in clinic; oral health program including fluoride drops and tablets, fluoride varnish and fluoride oral rinse in the schools; influenza vaccines; Living Well with Chronic Conditions; Dining with Diabetes; jail health; and emergency pre-
paredness. The programs provided by the health department are grant-funded and focused on the Iron County Community Health Improvement Plan. The health department is updating their CHIP this year and will be having community meetings with local partners to determine the communities top three priorities for health. The 2005 priorities included: good nutrition and exercise to prevent chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes, alcohol abuse and mental health issues, and tobacco use. The health department couldn’t alone do the work it does and community collaboration is very important in its work. The department work closely with UW-Extension, the schools, Head Start, Human Services, the Aging Unit and even agencies across the border such as MSU-Extension, just to name a few. The health department is
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Yoga frees mind, body, soul By ANNETTE MANWELL amanwell@yourdailyglobe.com
IRONWOOD — Larry Sands, one of two yoga instructors at Northern Mind Yoga Studio in Ironwood, said the biggest misconception about yoga is that a person has to be in shape already to benefit from it. “Needing to get in shape or being over weight is a reason to do yoga,” Sands said. “It does help with weight loss and flexibility.” People also worry about other people in class looking at them or watching them during the class. “No one else in class is looking,” he said. “It’s not a fashion show.” Sands and Felicia Santini have been teaching yoga in the Hurley/Ironwood area for more than 20 years, he said, at the current location on the corner of Douglas Street and Michigan Avenue since 1999. Between them, they are teaching four classes per week of beginner through level 2 yoga. They also teach meditation classes on occasion, he said.
“I have the fortunate opportunity to teach there,” Sands said, explaining that his wife, Santini, owns the building. Sands has been a student of yoga since 1977 and has taught for 10 years. Santini has been teaching for since 1978, he said, and has been student since 1976. “I’ve been pretty dedicated to it for a while,” Sands said. Yoga is a huge topic, Sands said. It covers a lot of different venues of interest and study. “Americans think of the physical poses of yoga — asanas,” he said. Worldwide it encompasses a whole world of “extreme range of motion, this isn’t just casual stretching. It’s done in very methodical and systematic way.” Yoga brings more movement to the body, Sands said. “It frees you up, it release what is overly tight. “Yoga can help you release that tightness. Yoga is a slow exercise. It allows the body to release. You do yoga with your mind. You do yoga from within.” Yoga cannot be done proper-
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From a shoulder stand, Larry Sands, yoga instructor at Northern Mind Yoga Studio, stretches his feet over his head. There are many variations to a shoulder stand, Sands said. ly with the television on or music playing, Sands continued. “It brings balance to the body ... a union with mind, body and spirit.” Sands said business “comes and goes” and is “somewhat relevant to financial times” but, “right now we’re having a good turnout.” Students ages range from 15 to 84, he said. Some people are quite flexible other quite
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inflexible. There are men, women, young and old “it crosses all those barriers.” Classes range between six and 15 people. he said. The cost is $63 for a seven-week series or $11 per class. Sands said anyone who wants to see if yoga is right for them can participate in the first class of the beginners series for free to “try it on for size.”
Most people sign up after seeing the benefits, he said. Santini wasn’t available to comment. Sands also provides therapeutic massage and is a Reiki master and teacher. All three skills help Sands advance one mission. “That’s why I’m on planet earth. That’s my assignment,” Sands said, of helping people to feel better.
HURLEY (Continued from Page 8) and Carolyn Smith, and Duane Gulan, have volunteered every year since the camp was developed. They spend the whole week at camp ensuring that operations run smoothly. Sydney Mabie, our camp nurse, also spends the week caring for all of us and dispensing medications, as needed. Financial contributions for camp totaled $8,690 in 2010, about two-thirds of the actual cost of camp. Camper fees accounted for the balance. Many area civic organizations have contributed generously each year to the camp. Thirty-three individuals and civic groups were sponsors of the 2010 camp, including the Hurley Lions Club, Iron County ATV Association, IronwoodHurley Rotary Club, Hurley
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