AURORA Tom Gillach is humbled by being selected grand marshal of Aurora s Independence Day parade July 3, and he feels others are more deserving. But the members of the community group Celebrate Aurora worked hard on convincing him. I had a lot of pressure, he good-naturedly told the Mesabi Tribune.
Gillach will ride in the parade through the neighborhoods of Aurora, a hybrid version of the parade that customarily went down the main street.
Gillach has long been a diehard supporter of the East Range city where he grew up and was a longtime teacher and coach in the Aurora-Hoyt Lakes, then Mesabi East schools. I taught science and social studies, health and phy ed was was the head coach of seven sports.