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Filling holes Dear Editor: This letter is to fill in some "holes" left by your "Summer Happenings" section in the Saturday, June 25 edition. Keweenaw Week is sponsored by the Copper Country Rock and Mineral Club each year. Mineral Days was run by Michigan Tech, and has not been active for some time. They do, however, support the CCRMC with a lecture and very popular surplus mineral sale at the Seaman Mineral Museum. Keweenaw Week is a very popular event and sells out each year. As such, This year's activities are full. If anyone is interested in Keweenaw Week next year, they ...

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Made in God's Image To the Editor: The idea that humans are made in the image of God comes from Genesis 1:27 of the KJV Bible which states, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." Thus both equally possess an eternal spirit capable of personal fellowship with their Creator. Men and women share all spiritual attributes not shared by animals, i.e., moral conscience, appreciation of beauty, abstract thought, and especially the capacity to worship and love God. The framework of the United States Constitution assumes a ...

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CORRUPT MONEY IN THE MICHIGAN ELECTIONS Editor: The amount of money that has been spent for one candidate, Haley Stevens, is almost $30 million by AIPAC, just for one candidate! Other candidates in Michigan are also receiving ridiculous funds also, and other funds from the Devos family such as John James and others! The average voter cannot afford spending money for candidates when they are surviving to pay their bills! Since the Supreme Court decision of Citizens United of 2010, which said corporations are like people, so our elections have become a sham of "dark money" that is ...

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World Chimpanzee Day Editor: World Chimpanzee Day is (was) July 14, and future generations will look back in denunciation at how we’ve allowed our closest non-human kin to be torn from their mothers, thrown into cages, experimented on, infected with diseases, locked in roadside zoos, and forced to perform. Dr. Jane Goodall and other scientists have irrefutably documented that chimpanzees live in rich, complex, and often difficult societies that closely parallel our own. We know that chimpanzees love, grieve, work, and play. They are highly intelligent, protect their families, come ...

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Beyond the Red, White, and Blue: America’s 250th Birthday Editor's note: The following letter was written by 14 year-old Molly Skyles who is going into the 9th grade at Houghton High School. She said she was inspired by the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, saying she wrote the letter to show her appreciation of this important occasion. “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” — Benjamin Franklin. Dear Editor: July 4th, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. The Fourth of July is known as Independence Day as it was the day ...

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Supports Prestin for Senate To the editor: I spent years as a constituent services staffer in the Michigan House of Representatives, where I worked directly for Rep. Dave Prestin and his predecessor, former Rep. Beau LaFave. My job was to help them serve the people of the Upper Peninsula, by listening to concerns, cutting through red tape, and navigating state government. That experience taught me the importance of having the best person to represent the Upper Peninsula. I am now retired and no longer work for the state legislature. Born and raised in the U.P., my roots here still run ...