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Last event for ely Greenstone’s Art Camp is the art show at Miners Dry HOuse in the Ely Arts & Heritage Center where students display all the art projects they have been working on for three days. Some projects were paper bowls, instructed by Nicole Selmer who also works at the Forest Service and also is a paper maker. She brought her vats and pulp and taught the kids how to make paper bowls. They made strips of pulp around a balloon and can pop it later. When the paper dries they have a bowl. Wind chimes, watercolor painting, dot art dealing with pointillism, tile art, beading, torn paper with a poem about nature, a bird feeder out of popsicle sticks, all kinds of drawing and stone carving and lots of fun. The 54 students ages 7 to 12 this year enjoyed the big highlight at the end of the three days, the art show where they stood behind their work while parents, grandparents and neighbors come and each child explains their art and they take their treasures home.

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On Tuesday night in Ely, there are many activities in which to take part - Tour Pioneer Mine (across from Grand Ely Lodge), enjoy live music at some restaurants, shop Ely stores and attend Whiteside Park activities.

Sunshine and summery times brought out the people at the Farmers Market after a cold rainy first week... Shoppers find lots to choose from already with veggies and art, soaps, meats, pizza, hand sewn items and woven rugs and other hand crafted spoons, pottery, bread, goodies and more veggies and more of everything including music at the Ely Farmers Market in Whiteside Park 5 p.m to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays. Every week there is more going on with food, fun and a good time and place to get together and enjoy more of what local Ely folks have to offer. Photo by Pam Roberts

BACK IT WENT - the 23” Walleye caught on a Sucker minnow by Bill Herzog and his grandson Aedan Roach, age 7, Aedan’s second walleye, while guests at Silver Rapids Lodge. They are from Marine on St. Croix, MN.

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For the Ely Timberwolves, an improbable season will reach its climax at an improbable destination: the Class A State High School Baseball Tournament.

The youngest baseball team in school history gave the program its second straight Section 7A title - upsetting top-seeded and state-ranked Deer River twice Thursday night at Duluth's Wade Stadium,

Junior Gage Merhar returned to the mound with a dominant performance and teamed with senior Mark Killoran to drive in eight runs as the Wolves won the opening game 12-7, setting up a deciding game for the title that mirrored the first.

Again, Ely jumped to a big lead and held on at the end, with sophomore Tyler Housey recording the save in his first-ever varsity pitching performance, relieving freshman Dalton Schreffler in a 9-6 Wolves win.

Photographer Pam Roberts captures the serenity of a boat ride through the channel at Silver Rapids.