1978 - Onaway High School Senior Symphonic Band Gets Top Honors at District Band Festival...and...Sen. Robert Davis to Attend Onaway Fireman's Ball...and...Truck Driver Hits Locomotive of Detroit & Mackinac Railroad From Presque Isle County Advance and Onaway Outlook March 1, 2018

  
CAPTION: Onaway High School's senior symphonic band took top honors in 1978 at the District Bands Festival
in Petoskey.  They earned a No. 1 rating, a superior mark that is equivalent of an "A." The only other
school in Onaway's class to earn the 1 rating was the Petoskey concert band.  The Onaway bands were under
the direction of Karan Pregitzer.  In other Onaway News, state Sen. Robert Davis was to attend the first
annual Onaway Firemen's Ball.  He was to be escorted by Onaway Area Chamber of Commerce president, Jerry
McConnell.  A pickup truck driven by a 26-year-old Onaway man ran into the locomotive of a Detroit & Mackinac
Railroad train at the Black River Road crossing a few hundred yards north of M-68. The driver told officers he
was driving northbound and did not see the train.  Visibility was bad due to the presence of wooded knolls. 


From the The Presque Isle County Advance March 1, 2018, page 7B. 


Retyped by J. Anderson