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February 07, 2004
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Laurie and Grant Sirevog Front Page Photo by Gigi Pilcher
Ketchikan: Sirevog
Retires, Honored For Service - A retirement party was held
for Grant Sirevog Friday evening in honor of his 21 years of
devoted service to the citizens and to the City of Ketchikan.-
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more... Alaska: DEC
Commissioner, EPA Director of American Indian Environmental Office
Agree to Collaborate on IGAP - Environmental Conservation
Commissioner Ernesta Ballard and EPA Director of the American
Indian Environmental Office Carol Jorgensen met Thursday and
agreed to collaborate on approaches to Alaska's environmental
circumstances and priorities. - Read
more... Alaska: SCAM
Bill Designed To Protect Consumers from Fraudulent Interstate
Moving Companies - Attorney General Gregg Renkes joined other
attorneys general to support the federal Securing Consumers'
Assurance in Moving (SCAM) bill, sponsored by Congressman Thomas
Petri (R - WI), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Highways,
Transit and Pipelines. The SCAM bill is designed to protect consumers
from deceptive interstate moving companies. - Read more...
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Ketchikan:
Ketchikan: $12,000
received to continue free lung cancer screening - A gift
of $12,000 allows the Ketchikan General Hospital (KGH) Cancer
Committee to resume a free Lung Cancer Screening Program first
launched in 2002. The program is aimed at detecting lung cancer
in its earliest stages while it is most likely curable. The screening
exam uses low-dose CT Scanning. -
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more... Ketchikan: Rice
Named KGH Employee of the Month For February - Kimberly Rice,
Histotechnologist at Ketchikan General Hospital (KGH) for the
past two years, has been named Employee of the Month by a committee
of her peers. - Read
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Alaska: House
Passes Resolution To Include All Alaskans In Initiative Process
- The Alaskan House of Representatives passed House Joint Resolution
5 Friday morning, calling for a proposed constitutional amendment
on the ballot to ensure that initiatives and referendums have
broad-based statewide support. - Read
more... Alaska: Southeast
Caucus Looks Forward to Session -
The Southeast Caucus
is back in action for the 2004 legislative session. Rep. Peggy
Wilson (R-Wrangell), Chair of the Southeast Caucus said, "I
am looking forward to working closely with the other legislators
who represent Southeast Alaska." She went on to say, "We
are pleased to welcome Senator Burt Stedman (R-Sitka), to the
Caucus and believe he will add a lot to our discussions."
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And the heroine who survived it There is a desolate island
in the Chukchi Sea on the frigid top of the planet. It is 83
miles north of the coast of Siberia and it is named Wrangel Island
- Wrangel with one L. It is roughly kidney-shaped and said to
be about 80 miles long and 18 to 30 miles across, with a cluster
of low mountains at its center. During the warmth of its very
brief summer, rivers flow north and south over rolling tundra
to the sea. Along the frosty riverbanks are buried the bones
of a race of woolly mammoths, evidence of dwarfed survivors of
a larger race of Russian Steppe mammoths of perhaps 20,000 or
30,000 years ago. The island today is inhabited by a tiny Russian-Eskimo
settlement and is largely visited by polar bears, seals, foxes,
ducks and geese and the occasional scientist from around the
world. - Read
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