...Virginia and delivered mail by boat on Lake Vermilion for eight years, is the former catalog director for the Piragis Northwoods Co. Boundary Waters Catalog of Ely. Passi, 28, a former wildlife ecologist and Ely native, also cut her teeth...

...Bert is an Illinois native and former Baptist pastor who found happiness and perhaps his true calling working for Piragis Northwoods Co., a canoe outfitter in Ely. Diane, who grew up in Grand Rapids, works at a photo gallery at the same business...