Monday
April 18, 2005
"Cleanup
Ketchikan Day"
Hunters Richard Coose, Richard Burton and Code Enforcement
Officer Jerry Cegelske pose with "bagged" trash...
Photo by Gretchen Klein
Ketchikan: "Cleanup
Ketchikan Day" brings sense of satisfaction by Nancy
Coggins - "I haven't had this much fun since I was a kid," exclaimed
Richard Monrean during "Cleanup Ketchikan Day" at the
7-mile rock pit on Ward Lake Road. Most of the participants expressed
a sense of satisfaction in helping to clean up the garbage left
behind by both shooters using these areas for target practice
instead of a rifle range and residents who would rather push
something over the rocky cliff than use the free landfill. -
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Monday - April 18, 2005
 Ernie Pyle: Remembering
Ernie Pyle, 60 years after his death By BILL STRAUB - It
was a scene that had repeated itself so many times during World
War II that it was hardly noteworthy - Ernie Pyle was reluctantly
heading toward yet another battlefront to join the foot soldiers
whose exploits and deaths he dutifully chronicled.- More...
Monday - April 18, 2005
Ernie Pyle: On
victory in Europe By ERNIE PYLE - This column of Ernie Pyle
was never completed. A draft of it was found in his pocket on
April 18, 1945, the day he was killed by a Japanese machine-gunner
on the island of Ie Shima. - More...
Monday - April 18, 2005
Ernie Pyle: The
death of Captain Waskow By ERNIE PYLE - This is the most
famous and most widely-reprinted column by Ernie Pyle. - More...
Monday - April 18, 2005
International: Pope-selection
process was not always so secretive By LANCE GAY - The election
of a new pope wasn't always as secretive as it is today. - More...
Monday - April 18,, 2005
Alaska: ADF&G
Releases Results of the 2005 Salmon Capacity Survey - The
Department of Fish and Game's preseason survey of salmon capacity
is now available. This survey estimates salmon processing capacity
around the state and identifies areas where capacity may be insufficient
to process the 2005 forecasted harvest. Capacity means a combination
of the physical processing capacity and the intent of buyers
and processors to purchase and process salmon. - More...
Monday - April 18,, 2005
Ketchikan: Coast
Guard crew assists three boaters - Three Southeast Alaska
boaters are safe after their boat became disabled near Ketchikan
and a Coast Guard rescue crew assisted them. - More...
Monday - April 18,, 2005
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Columns - Commentary
 Dave Kiffer: Hearty
Alaska Haven - Six months ago, I wrote a column noting that
local tourism officials were looking to improve the marketing
of Ketchikan by coming up with a "brand"that could
be used to distinguish Ketchikan from its competitors for the
visitor dollar.
A high powered "branding"
consultant was hired, locals were consulted with, and money was
spent.
That process is done and the
result is Ketchikan: Hearty Alaska Haven.
No really, I'm serious. That's
the result. I don't want to fault the process, because I think
the idea of trying to come up with a catchy catch phrase is a
good one. And in the ever competitive tourism area, you need
to be aware that potential visitors can be seduced away by someone
else's more compelling siren song.
But the end result has to be
something that fits. Something that feels natural. Something
that doesn't feel like it was designed by a "branding"
consultant. - More...
Monday - April 18, 2005
 Bob
Ciminel: GPS,
Who Needs It? - I was working in Germany last week and the
company provided me with a rental car equipped with one of those
onboard GPS navigation systems that talks to you. It was a neat
little feature considering the car was just a VW. Well, to be
more exact, it was a VW Phaeton, a $67,000, two-and-a-half ton
monster made for 210 kilometers per hour on the Autobahn. Of
course, I had to verify that claim, and, yes, it could do 130
miles per hour with ease. I didn't ask why they rented such an
expensive car for someone who usually sits in Atlanta traffic
and rarely goes faster than 80 mph. I thoroughly enjoyed the
car. - More...
Monday - April 18, 2005
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Alaskan
Chris Leding: 1886-1975; A Norwegian adventurer - By June
Allen - Today's Ketchikan phone book includes a fair share of
Scandinavian surnames. There are, however, relatively few Norse
names among the records of the town's earliest settlers. Most
of Ketchikan's Norwegian population originated later, during
the early 1920s when the halibut fleet, its skippers, crewmen
and families moved north from the Seattle area. An exception
was the late Chris Leding, who wasn't yet a fisherman when
he settled down in Ketchikan the mid-1920s and who discovered
commercial fishing much later in life. - More...
Thursday - April 07, 2005
 A
Personal Tribute to Tom Coyne on St. Patrick's Day
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
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