Saturday
January 17, 2004
'Rush
Hour'
photo by Carl Thompson
Alaska: Canadians
To Conduct Bradfield Road Overview - Representative Peggy
Wilson (R-Wrangell) reported that Greg Halsey-Brandt British
Columbia Minister of State in the BC provincial government recently
announced his government's intention to perform an overview of
Alaska's proposed Bradfield-Iskut road. The Alaska Department
of Transportation and Public Facilities has a study underway
to demonstrate the effects of such a road on the economies of
southern Southeast Alaska communities and to an extent the impacts
on BC communities including but not limited to Prince Rupert.
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Saturday - January 17, 2004 - 12:30 am
 Ketchikan:
Listen to this story... The Ketchikan City
Council Thursday night voted to lift parking restrictions on
the preferred site for the proposed Ketchikan Community Center
for the Arts. The Council also voted to create a new Public Safety
Director position. Deanna Garrison has this report.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Friday - January 16, 2004 - 10:44 pm
Ketchikan:
Listen to this story... One of the area's
local airlines is further reducing its winter schedule. A bad
economy, problems with the U.S. Post Office and improved ferry
service are all factors that PROMECH cites as reason for cutting
back. Jay Marble has this report.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Friday - January 16, 2004 - 10:44 pm
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Thank you Ketchikan
Pictured from left
to right: Mr. and Mrs. Davies from Salvation Army, Heather Phelps
and Dawn Jahnke from Credit Union One, Jackie Freeman President
of P.A.T.H., Kate Vikstrom from Ketchikan General Hospital, and
Trooper Mark Eldridge with Alaska State Troopers. - Photo courtesy
The Plaza Mall
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 Ketchikan: Plaza's
Teddy Bear Adoption Campaign A Success - On January 15th,
The Plaza staff said their final goodbyes to the last of the
Teddy Bears that staff said "were donated by so many wonderful
people in our community."
According to information provided
by Plaza Marketing Assistant Blaine Ashcraft, the Plaza's Teddy
Bear adoption campaign was started back in May with no idea of
the response that it would receive. Blaine noted that "as
the word got out, more and more of the little furry fellows came
in, and in they came!" By the time the holiday season had
arrived Plaza Manager Penny Eubanks and Ashcraft knew that their
holiday visualization would become a realization.
Before adoption, the Teddy
Bears had starring roles in the Plaza's holiday decor, which
dressed out the Plaza through the holiday season keeping with
The Plaza's Holiday Theme "A Beary Merry Christmas".
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more...
Saturday - January 17, 2004 - 12:30 am
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Ketchikan Volunteer
Fire Department
circa 1905 - Photographer:
Harriet Hunt
Donor: Bertha Hunt Wells,
Courtesy Tongass Historical Society
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June Allen Column
Ketchikan's Volunteer Legacy; Buckets to hydrants
to hi-tech
A fire department in any community, large or small,
commands citizen respect. When fire sirens blare, traffic obediently
tries to pull over and people hold their breaths - hoping it's
not their house, their business, their school or anyone they
know. Fire has been a frightening scourge in history from Nero
in Rome to Chicago's Mrs. O'Leary to Ketchikan's Bill Mitchell.
As new American communities sprang up in the "Go west, young
man" spirit of the nineteenth century, one of the first
things responsible pioneers did was establish fire departments.
When the westward-ho movement reached the Pacific coast and the
settlement-surge angled north, fire departments were among the
very first organizations founded in Alaska. - Read
the rest of this story...
Thursday - January 15, 2004 - 12:50 am
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June Allen's Column
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