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LAKE COUNTY
SEALED BID
TIMBER AUCTION

Bids due Wednesday, June 19, 2019
10:00 a.m.

For information on tracts, bidding procedure,
eligibility, and official bid forms,
contact: Lake County Forestry
601 3rd Ave., Two Harbors, MN 55616
Maps, Info & Bid Forms available
on line at www.co.lake.mn.us/forestry
Two Harbors 218-834-8340

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT # 696
Ely, MN
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

For Annual Audit Services – 3 year agreement beginning with 2018-19 Audit

Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received by the School Board, Independent School District 696, Ely, MN, up to 12:00 p.m. central time on Wednesday May 29, 2019.

Copies of the request for proposal and exhibits may be requested from Spencer Aune, Business Manager, saune@ely.k12.mn.us, and will be sent electronically at no charge.

Requests for proposal are to be submitted to:
Ely Public Schools
Spencer Aune, Business Manager
600 East Harvey Street
Ely, MN 55731

The School Board reserves the right to reject any or all proposals and to waive informalities. The School Board reserves the right to select the proposal that it determines to be in the best interest of the District.

POSITION OPENING – ISD No. 696, ELY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Early Childhood Family Education
and School Readiness Coordinator
and Teacher:
Part-time, permanent; teaching hours - 448 School Readiness and 240 ECFE; 55 coordinating hours for the 2019-2020 school year, salary and fringes as per the master agreement between ISD #696 and the Ely Education Association. Application to include: district licensed application form, copy of official transcripts, resume’, current MN teaching license required. Application available at www.ely.k12.mn.us or at the General Office. Return materials to: ISD #696, Attn: Superintendent, 600 E. Harvey St., Ely, MN 55731. Application deadline: Friday, May 31, 2019.

POSITION OPENING – ISD No. 696, ELY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Early Childhood Family Education
Parent Educator:
Part-time; approx. 324 hours for the 2019-2020 school year, salary and fringes as per the master agreement between ISD #696 and the Ely Education Association. Application to include: district licensed application form, three letters of recommendation, copy of official transcripts, resume’, current MN teaching license. Application available at www.ely.k12.mn.us or at the General Office. Return materials to: ISD #696, Attn: Superintendent, 600 E. Harvey St., Ely, MN 55731. Application deadline: Friday, May 31, 2019.

POSITION OPENING – ISD No. 696, ELY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
for the 2019-2020 school year
.44 FTE Social Studies Teacher
(Grade 9 Civics)
Salary and fringes as per Master Agreement Between ISD #696 and the Ely Education Association and School Board policy. Include district application, resume’, official transcripts, letters of recommendation and current Minnesota teaching license; background check required. Application available at www.ely.k12.mn.us, click on District then on Job Openings, then Application for Employment in Licensed Position or at the General Office, 2nd floor of the Memorial Building; return materials to: ISD No. 696, Attn: Superintendent, 600 E. Harvey St., Ely, MN 55731. Application deadline: May 31, 2019.

POSITION OPENING – ISD No. 696, ELY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
for the 2019-2020 school year
1.0 FTE 6th Grade Teacher with
Middle School endorsements in Math, Science or Social Studies Preferred
Salary and fringes as per Master Agreement Between ISD #696 and the Ely Education Association and School Board policy. Include district application, resume’, official transcripts, letters of recommendation and current Minnesota teaching license; background check required. Application available at www.ely.k12.mn.us, click on District then on Job Openings, then Application for Employment in Licensed Position or at the General Office, 2nd floor of the Memorial Building; return materials to: ISD No. 696, Attn: Superintendent, 600 E. Harvey St., Ely, MN 55731. Application deadline: May 31, 2019.

Sheila Phelps, 65, of Ely, passed away on Friday, May 17, 2019 at the Ely Bloomenson Community Hospital. Family arrangements have been entrusted to Kerntz Funeral Home of Ely.

by Assistant Secretary for Land
and Minerals Management Joe Balash
At the dawn of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of people arrived and settled in the Iron Range across northern Minnesota. They came from Scandinavia, Austria-Hungary, Italy, England, and dozens of other places of origin. These new Minnesotans mined the ore, for which the region was named, and built their communities. By 1920, their population had swelled to over 100,000 and comprised 85 percent of the workforce in the mines. When the rise of National Socialism threatened the western world, output from these mines fed the production of the tanks, ships, and airplanes that won World War II.
A century later, we find ourselves in a world where copper is essential to our efficient use of electricity and the transmission of information. Once again, northern Minnesota may play a key role in supplying the raw materials that are needed for solar panels, electric vehicles, and smartphones.

Since 1991, international journalists from the World Press Institute (WPI) have made a visit to Ely part of their nine week stay in the States. Each year they are hosted by area families and participate in an Ely Echo Open Forum held at the Miners Dry House in the Pioneer Mine complex at the Ely Arts & Heritage Center. The Forum will be held Monday, August 26 from 9-1 p.m.
The Ely visit this year is scheduled for August 25-27. For more information, contact Anne Swenson at 365-3141.
The World Press Institute (WPI) has chosen 10 journalists from Algeria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, India, Romania, South Africa, Uganda and Uruguay to be fellows in its 2019 international journalism program.

A Culture & Tourism grant awarded to the Ely Folk School by Iron Range Resources & Rehabilitation will help support several initiatives the nonprofit school has in the works for 2019. These include launching a pottery program in the school’s newly remodeled workshop space and expanding the school’s forge and blacksmithing program, which opened to popular appeal last fall in an adjoining building.
Another supported initiative is EFS’ involvement with the “Nature for the Nation” outdoor walking play slated for a performance in Ely this August. The grant also includes support for EFS’ seasonal folk-dance series, its annual birchbark canoe building program, expanded marketing and website services, and funds to assist with compensating contracted instructors who teach the school’s short courses in traditional skills.