Saturday
March 19, 2005
'Revenge
of the Bat'
Front Page Photo by
Carl Thompson
Ketchikan: A
Bat, a Ball and a Ketchikan Play; Ketchikan Community Chorus
& Orchestra Adapts Die Fledermaus for Home-Run Fun as "Revenge
of the Bat" by Sharon Lint - The Ketchikan Community
Chorus & Orchestra mixed it up last night at Kayhi witha
Bat, a Ball and a Ketchikan Play. And no, they weren't playing
baseball. They were playing Opera. - More...
Saturday - March 19, 2005
 Ketchikan: Recent Acquisitions: An Eclectic Exhibit - What do an ashtray from the Toot
& Tell Drive In, a Sydney Laurence seascape painting, a 1920s-era
electric meter, and a set of "brass knuckles" have
in common? First, each of them is connected in some way to Ketchikan;
second, all were added to the Museum's permanent collections
during the last four years; and finally, they are all featured
in Recent Acquisitions, the current exhibit at the Tongass
Historical Museum. - More...
Saturday - March 19, 2005
Ketchikan: Brown
Bag Lunch Series Caps Exhibit - Lunchtime audiences have
an opportunity for "up close and personal" conversations
with artists whose work appears in the Recent Acquisitions
exhibit with the Brown Bag Lunch series, held on Thursdays in
the Museum's exhibit gallery. - More...
Saturday - March 19, 2005
|
|
Two juvenile bar-tailed
godwits with heavy loads of fat fly over the central Yukon River
delta on September 8, 2004. The birds were soon to start a migration
to New Zealand or Australia during which they might not land
to feed during a five or six-day trip.
Photo by Bob Gill.
|
Ketchikan: FUNDAY
At The Museum - FUNDAY at the Museum, a new series
of exhibit-related Saturday programs especially for kids, kicked
off at the Tongass Historical Museum on January 22. Each event
in the series will feature various interactive learning stations
that relate to the current exhibit. - More...
Saturday - March 19, 2005
Alaska: The
bar-tailed godwit's nonstop to New Zealand by Ned Rozell
- A New Zealand biologist emailed his colleague in Anchorage
in early March with news of creatures heading toward Alaska to
start a 15,000-mile round trip.
"They're on their way,"
Phil Battley wrote from Auckland after watching a group of bar-tailed
godwits leap into the air and head out over the South Pacific.
Those birds will head to the shores of the Yellow Sea near Korea,
fatten up for a few weeks, and fly to their breeding grounds
on Alaska's tundra. After a summer of hatching and raising young
godwits, the birds leave Alaska's west coast to begin fall migrations
back to New Zealand and eastern Australia.
On the return trip, godwits
probably don't make the pit stop in Asia. Some biologists think
the birds stay airborne for almost one week, making a 6,800-mile
beeline from Alaska to New Zealand or the coast of Australia.
- More...
Saturday - March 19, 2005
|
|
National: Some
war critics rethink their position By David Westphal - The
success of January's elections in Iraq, new flashes of democracy
in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and massive rallies in Lebanon are
causing some critics of the Iraq war to reconsider their skepticism
of President Bush's Middle East strategy.
A few are pondering a question
they once would have found unthinkable: Could Bush have been
right about the war? - More...
Saturday - March 19, 2005
National: Fight
over Medicaid splits GOP support for budget By Lawrence M.
O'Rourke - Congressional Republicans left Washington for their
spring break Friday after offering a glimpse of their ideological
divide triggered by a Senate rejection of President Bush's request
to cut spending on health care for the poor.- More...
Saturday - March 19, 2005
National: The
American dream is out of reach for many today By Mary Deibel
and Lance Gay - In an earlier era, Americans who didn't strike
it rich at home could take Horace Greeley's advice to "Go
West" for new opportunities to reinvent their lives.
World War II gave way to another
kind of mobility. The GI Bill and an end to legal segregation
ushered in "a period when people from poor backgrounds were
able to get a college education, buy a home and start a business,"
said New York University wealth expert Edward Wolff. - More...
Saturday - March 19, 2005
Columns - Commentary
 Dave
Kiffer: "Talk
About Multitasking!" - Last week sitting in a Sea-Tac
departure lounge I came to a shocking conclusion.
I was waiting for a flight
to Oakland (yes, Gertrude, there is a "there" there)
and it dawned on me that I was only person (amongst a whole herd
of folks) that wasn't talking on a cell phone. - More...
Saturday - March 19, 2005
|
The June Allen Column
is made possible in part by these sponsors. Cick on each name
to visit each web site.
|
June Allen Column
Ketchikan: A
Personal Tribute to Tom Coyne on St. Patrick's Day - St.
Patrick's Day makes me think of Ketchikan's city councilman Tom
Coyne and of famous author Frank McCourt. They even look a lot
alike -- faces like maps of Ireland! Of course I've never met
Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes, but his book lays bare
the bittersweet memories of his childhood. And I've interviewed
Tom Coyne on several occasions and I see some of the similarities
in their impoverished early years. And they both, like
everyone in the Irish land of their bloodlines, are poets at
heart. - Read
the rest of this story by June Allen....
Thursday - March 17, 2005
 It's
Iditarod Race Year 33! a ghost story of the southern route
Ketchikan's
'Rotary Wheel' Still Turning; Hardworking club celebrates a century
Sitka's
Pioneer Home Statue; Whose face is cast in bronze?
L.
Ron Hubbard's Alaska Adventure; His long winter in Ketchikan
ACS
Bids for KPU Telecom: ACS a longtime presence
Betty
King the Dog Lady; Ketchikan's one-woman humane society
Ketchikan,
Alaska - Let There Be Light! -- Citizens Light & Power and
then KPU
The
State Capitol and Its Marble and keeping the capital in Juneau
A
Legendary Mountain of Jade; Just one of Alaska's Arctic Wonders
John
Koel, Baker to Banker; An eccentric philanthropist
Harold
Gillam: A Tragic Final Flight; Ketchikan remembers the search
Ketchikan's
'Fish House Tessie'; She was proud of the nickname
Fairbanks:
Golden Heart City; A story of its founding
Remembering
'Swede' Risland (1915-1991);The town's most memorable logger
Read more feature stories by June Allen...
Copyright Applies - Please obtain written permission before reproducing
photographs, features, columns, etc. that are published on SitNews.
|
|
 
Ketchikan Charter
Commission
Next Meeting:
Friday, March 25, 2005 at 6:00 pm
City Council Chambers
KCC Web Site
|
|
