The new scaffold at the Pine Mountain ski jump is shown, illuminated at night.
IRON MOUNTAIN Gundlach Champion of Iron Mountain will be hired by Dickinson County to design an elevator for the Pine Mountain ski jump, a project that’s needed to meet standards for international competitions.
The county board voted 3-2 to accept a cost not to exceed $19,500 for preliminary design-build services.
Without an elevator, the Kiwanis Ski Club will be unable to host World Cup ski jumping as envisioned for 2023, Commissioner Joe Stevens said.
Gundlach Champion also proposes the elevator as a tourist attraction.
Chairman Henry Wender and Commissioner Ann Martin voted no, as no ski club representatives were present. Wender wants assurances the ski club can see the project through.
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JEFFREY DERIDDER
BREITUNG TOWNSHIP Jeffrey Robert DeRidder, 78, of Breitung Township, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, Dec. 26, and drove off to that great racetrack in the sky.
Jeff was born July 15, 1942, in Norway, Mich., to the late Joseph and Lucille (Dollinger) DeRidder. After his father was killed in action in World War II, he attended elementary schools in Norway and Iron Mountain before moving to Chicago with his mother, a professional singer, for several years. He spent summers in Iron Mountain working in his grandmother’s restaurant, the Casa Loma, and graduated from Iron Mountain High School in 1960.
He studied mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological University for two years but later transferred to Northern Michigan University, where he obtained a degree in math and physics.