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January 20, 2004
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Pictured: Top Left to Right: Priscilla Barnett; Beth Antonsen; Bob & Letha Karlson; Bottom Left to Right: Terri Burr; Annie Deprey; Master of Ceremonies, Yeda Hicks... photos by Gigi Pilcher; graphic by MC Kauffman
National: Text
of the State of the Union Address - A transcript of the State
of the Union address by the President to the Congress - More...
Ketchikan: Martin
Luther King Jr. Honored on Special Day - Saxman and Ketchikan
residents joined together Monday evening to honor Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. in music, song, poetry and readings. - Read
more & view the photo gallery... Ketchikan: Elkins
suffers heart attack - Well known Ketchikan businessman and
Republican party stalwart Jim Elkins is resting comfortably in
Harborview Hospital in Seattle after being medivaced south Saturday.
Elkins suffered a heart attack at home Saturday morning. - Read
more... Alaska: Salmon Task Force Recommends Legislation - The Joint Legislative Salmon Industry Task Force met Sunday and Monday and recommended 13 measures for introduction by members of the Legislature. Among the measures is a bill
to reduce the number of board members of the Alaska Seafood Marketing
Institute (ASMI) and to revise the salmon marketing tax, the
processor assessment and the seafood marketing tax. -
Read more... Alaska: Veterans
Affairs Offering New Services to Filipino Veterans - Representative
Dan Ogg (R-Kodiak) announced on Monday that he had been informed
by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that new services
for certain World War II Filipino veterans have been signed into
law by President Bush. - Read
more... Alaska: Companies
vie to provide state with new exams - Five testing companies
are vying to revamp Alaska's standardized tests into exams that
are better aligned with what students are supposed to be learning
and meet demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. - Read
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Madison Lumber & Hardware, Inc. ~ Downtown Drugstore ~ Alaska Glass & Supply ~ Sourdough Bar Liquor Store ~ Davies-Barry Insurance ~ Sitnews... |
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. -
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