Tuesday
March 30, 2004
Expert
Teaches Cedar Bark Weaving Skills
Totem Heritage Center instructor
Diane Douglas-Willard demonstrates a weaving technique to students
during one of the class sessions. (L-R) Yasha Jaffuel, Catherine
Young, Diane Douglas-Willard, Evelyn Voorhees-Brown, and Laverne
John.
Front Page Photo Courtesy Ketchikan Museums
 Ketchikan:
Expert
Teaches Cedar Bark Weaving Skills -The pleasant, pungent
smell of cedar bark filled the Totem Heritage Center in March
as 13 students, from beginners to advanced weavers, worked on
hats, clam baskets, and other weaving projects under the expert
guidance of instructor Diane Douglas-Willard. Cedar bark and
spruce root weaving are among the many traditional techniques
taught in the Totem Heritage Center's internationally recognized
Northwest Coast Native Arts program. - View
the photo gallery...
Tuesday - March 30, 2004
 Ketchikan: Listen to this story... The State Department
of Fish and Game issued a statement Friday outlining conservation
efforts the department will undertake during the impending West
Behm Canal sac roe herring fishery. As Deanna Garrison reports,
opponents of the controversial fishery say the state has done
a poor job of managing herring stocks in the past and they they
don't believe fish and game will do enough this time around.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Tuesday - March 30, 2004
Hydaburg: Listen to this story... The Hydaburg Cooperative
Association has passed a resolution opposing the spraying of
herbicides on Long Island. The herbicides would make the Island's
high value timber grow faster. But as Jay Marble reports, the
Cooperative Association remains concerned that the herbicides
pose health hazards.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Tuesday - March 30, 2004
Alaska: House
Acts to Deter Underage Access to Alcohol - The House
of Representatives unanimously passed a measure Monday that allows
licensees to seek a $1000 civil penalty against adults who buy
alcohol for minors and also for minors who solicit adults to
purchase alcohol for them.
Sponsored by Rep. Kevin Meyer
(R-Anchorage), HB
428 mirrors an Anchorage ordinance that is already being
used to successfully deter misguided adults from purchasing alcohol
for minors. "Because of the success of the Anchorage ordinance
and the alcohol education training programs that are being used,
licensees across the state want to be more proactive in keeping
underage kids away from alcohol," Meyer said.
HB 428 relies on a community
policing philosophy, which promotes organization strategies,
outside of State and Municipal involvement, to address community
problems such as underage access to alcohol. "HB 428 implements
a zero-cost enforcement policy. We can't have a police officer
at every liquor store in this state, so the more help we can
get from businesses and citizens, the better," stated Meyer.
"It is optional for licensees to seek these civil penalties
against the adults and the minors, however, I hope that more
businesses statewide will take advantage of this measure."
- Read
more...
Tuesday - March 30, 2004
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Fish Pirate's Daughter
- 1966
A group picture taken at Petersburg when the First City Players
took the show on the road in 1966 - Seated in front are (unidentified),
Arlene Crawford and (unidentified). In the middle row from left,
Tom Kelley (is it?), Bob Allen, Jack Shay, Chuck Maniscalco,
Mary Kinerk and Maureen Karlson. Back row from left, (unidentified),
June Allen, Margot Shay, and Jim Alguire... Photo courtesy First
City Players
Digital conversion by Sitnews....
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June Allen Column
Ketchikan's
First City Players ; Did you hear that applause? - The 40th
anniversary of the founding of Ketchikan's renowned First City
Players is fast approaching. That community theater of volunteer
actors, directors and stage hands laid the foundation of a tradition
that has become the city's longest-lived, continuously active
thespian society. It began when a small group of amateur actors
with a little theater experience got together and said, "Let's
put on a show!" And did so, and then put together another
show, and another to become in time Ketchikan's first long-term
little theater group as well as one of Alaska's most respected
amateur theater organizations. In the larger picture and looking
back to the town's beginnings, the First City Players added their
talents to a long tradition of drama and comedy in the story
of the small town on the shores of Tongass Narrows. - Read
the rest of this story by June Allen...
Tuesday - March 30, 2004
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