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Chassellâs Building Trades class stands in front of a finished sauna headed for Chassell Beach. Members of the class standing left to right: Ethan Hupp, Daba Holmes, James Usitalo, Karl Rautiola, Gabe Torala, Devin Kilpela, Instructor-Michael Randell.
CHASSELL The Chassell Township High School Building Trades class is keeping busy not only with in-class instruction, but also learning life experiences, with the intention of benefiting their community.
Rather than learning shop skills and making bookshelves and end tables, Michael Randell’s class is reaching out and seeing what the people of Chassell Township want built.
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IRON MOUNTAIN Natural or “green” burials may be permitted in a portion of Iron Mountain Cemetery Park later this year, the city council learned Monday.
“Hopefully by summer we’ll have something ready to go,” City Manager Jordan Stanchina said during a Zoom meeting.
The city began exploring the idea after a community presentation in 2019 by the Keweenaw Green Burial Alliance. For a green burial, the body is not cremated nor infused with embalming chemicals that might get into the soil. It instead is placed in a biodegradable coffin or shroud and buried without a vault.
Though usually less expensive than a conventional burial, the option is available at just a handful of cemeteries across the U.P.
Upper Peninsula cemetery makes more room for green burials
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
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CHASSELL TOWNSHIP, MI – An Upper Peninsula cemetery is making more room for so-called green burials.
The Chassell Township cemetery in Houghton County has sold out of the approximately 40 sites that were created five years ago and has added more than two dozen plots in a wooded area, The Daily Mining Gazette in Houghton reported.
“Interest in green burial is increasing, and it’s important to us to respond to the needs of our community,” Joseph Youngman of the Chassell Public Works Department told the newspaper.
Green burials refer to a traditional style burial in which the use embalming fluids to preserve the body are not used. The body typically is buried in a biodegradable container or a cloth shroud allowing normal decomposition and the body to be naturally recycled.
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