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Marquette Monthly
April, 2006
 

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Marquette Monthly
Table of Contents

No. 222
April 2006

Our Cover by Chris Wetton
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Feature
Cassandra, by Mark Wisti
MM’s 16th Annual Short Story Contest winner

Departments

City Notes Kristy Basolo
Highlights of what’s happening in and around town

Lookout Point Pam Christensen
No longer a man’s sport

Locals Suzan Travis-Robyns
Family works to help Third World countries

In the Outdoors Jamie Lafreniere
Power kids: Bringing UK skills to U.P. teams

Back Then Larry Chabot
Don’t blame us!

More Health Matters Ann Constance
Coping with diabetes

8-18 Media
Making AIDS history

More 8-18 Media
MTV correspondent makes news more accessible to young people

Arts & Humanities
In-home respite serves hundreds

Home Cinema Leonard G. Heldreth
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, Howl’s Moving Castle, MirrorMask

Food & Other Important Things Don Curto
Brioche again?

Health Matters Leslie Bek
The alcohol factor

This month's Brad Veley cartoon


Editor in Chief & Publisher Pat Ryan-O’Day
Managing Editor Kristy Basolo
Calendar Editor Miriam Möller
Graphic Design, Ad Production Kathy Jeske Casteel
Office Manager Kathy Jeske Casteel
Chief Photographer Tom Buchkoe
Webmaster Brian O’Day
Circulation Dick Armstrong
Proofreader Kathy Moran
Contributing Artists
Elizabeth Beckman, Jack Deo and Mike McKinney

Contributing Writers
Leslie Bek, Larry Chabot,
Pam Christensen, Ann Constance,
Leonard G. Heldreth, Jamie Lafreniere,
Suzan Travis-Robyns,
Gerald Waite and Mark Wisti

We thank the Marquette County History Museum for their continuing assistance.

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