Ilsa Minor | Daily Press
An odd sequence of events led to an alarming sight at Escanaba City Hall Thursday afternoon. Passerbys watched as a man moved about on the city hall roof while a fire truck, Escanaba Public Safety squad cars, and the city electric department blocked traffic from getting too close to the building. According to City Manager Patrick Jordan, the sight was largely a coincidence. The electric department was called to replace a light in the utility billing office that had shorted out, and Public Safety was on standby as a precaution in case of an electrical fire. The man was on the roof for entirely different reasons. A wind storm around Thanksgiving had removed sections of the building’s fascia and residents of nearby Harbor Tower had alerted the city that the roof’s membrane needed replacement. Thanks to the unseasonably warm weather, the roof could be repaired Thursday, and since there was little chance of fire, the man continued to work while the light was
Ilsa Minor | Daily Press
Above, the finalists of the Daily Press Golden Ticket Contest show off their own “Golden Tickets.” During November and December, children between the ages of 7 and 12 were asked locate the names of businesses featured on peppermint-shaped ads throughout the pages of the Daily Press. The children then wrote the names on a Golden Ticket entry form, and ten lucky finalists were drawn from the tickets on Dec. 23. Those finalists came to the Daily Press Wednesday to select bags of candy, and the child who picked the bag with a box of Peanut M&Ms was named the grand-prize winner. Shown above are, from left, back row: Lauren Pare of Gladstone, Aaliyah Ness of Gladstone, Makenzie Tryan of Escanaba, Jersey Kleikamp of Wilson; front row: Haven Kichura of Escanaba, Ambrosia Tauriainen of Escanaba, Alexis Scheuren of Bark River, and Allison Lesnieski of Gladstone. Not pictured are Serenity Smithson of McMillan and Isaac Leckson of Garden.