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Flora and Fauna Will Brighten Boarded Windows

 

October 09, 2004
Saturday


Ketchikan, Alaska - Bobbi McCreary, M.J.Turek, and Charlotte Tanner were busy Friday painting a background on the plywood that covers the windows of the Diamond's International Building in downtown Ketchikan. At the end of the busy tourist season, seasonal businesses board up their windows as they close down until next spring. In an effort to turn uninspiring boarded up windows into something more appealing that everyone can enjoy, Project Ketchikan was created by Bobbie McCreary, M.J. Turek and other interested locals in 2003.


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Bobbi McCreary helps with the painting of the background on the boarded windows of the Diamond's International Building Friday as an unidentified woman looks on.
Photo by Carl Thompson ©2004


Project Ketchikan is sponsored again this year by the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council and Historic Ketchikan.  Paint and supplies for the project were generously donated by Diamond's International and Talbott's.

Project Coordinator Bobbie McCreary invites those interested to come out and join in the fun painting the boarded windows of the Diamond's International Building at the corner of Front and Mill on Sunday, October 10th from 10 am - 3 pm. She said no artistic ability is required.

The theme this year is Flora and Fauna.

 

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M.J. Turek and Charlotte Tanner prepare the boarded windows for Sunday's painting....
Photo by Carl Thompson ©2004

 

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Charlotte Tanner... 
Photo by Carl Thompson ©2004

 

 

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