Tuesday
August 31, 2004
'Local
Blacksmith'
Front Page Photo by Kathy Stack
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Alaska: EPA
cancels registration for pesticide products containing diazinon
- The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is informing
Alaska consumers and retailers that EPA is canceling product
registration for all residential pesticide products containing
the active ingredient diazinon. Products with diazinon as the
active ingredient will no longer be allowed to be sold in Alaska
as of December 31, 2004. EPA will phase out some uses of diazinon
in commercial agriculture over the next two to five years. -
More...
Tuesday - August 31, 2004
Alaska: DHSS
Seeks Innovative Proposals to Promote Healthy Marriages in Alaska;
Welfare-to-work success brings Federal bonus funds to Alaska
- The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services is seeking
proposals from community and faith-based organizations for programs
and services designed to support the formation and maintenance
of married, two-parent families. Funding for the Healthy Marriages
Initiative totals $500,000 and is offered in grants of up to
$50,000 per organization. - More...
Tuesday - August 31, 2004
Ketchikan: UAS
Ketchikan Business Training Needs Assessment Underway - The
University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan is surveying the business
community in Southern Southeast Alaska. The purpose of the survey
is to determine the current and future training needs of industries
in the area. The results of the survey will assist UAS Ketchikan
in offering relevant and necessary training to businesses and
their employees.
The University of Alaska Southeast
Ketchikan has a long history of offering vocational and technical
training to the communities served. The University will continue
to respond to community needs for trade, technical and vocational
education.
The survey will be mailed to
all local business the week of August 30th. Businesses are asked
to respond by September 13. To request a survey or for more information,
please contact Wendy Gierard at UAS Ketchikan. - More...
Tuesday - August 31, 2004
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Odette Foster, traditional
dance caller and instructor...
Photo courtesy Carol Alley
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Ketchikan: Contra
and Squares Dances being revived in Ketchikan as "Sweet
Second Saturdays" - The Contra and Squares Dances are
being revived in Ketchikan as "Sweet Second Saturdays"
every second Saturday at the United States Coast Guard's Upper
Base Crow's Nest. The first dance of the season is the 11th of
September, featuring live music by "Paddy's Leather Breeches",
and a guest caller from Juneau, Odette Foster.
Odette Foster, traditional
dance caller and instructor, who will be calling the opening
dance for Ketchikan's new Second Saturday Dance series has called
dances twice before in Ketchikan. She has been calling contra
dances for sixteen years. Foster helped start Juneau's New England
Barn Dance series in 1988 and the Thursday Night Contras dances
in 1989. She's called dances in Anchorage for the Dancing Bears,
and has also been a guest caller in Fairbanks, Sitka, Haines,
Skagway, Whitehorse, Seattle and Portland. - More...
Tuesday - August 31, 2004
Columnists
Howard
Dean: The
First Americans are Last in Health Care - A serious health
care crisis is gripping a segment of our nation at rates astronomically
higher than any other group in America. According to a study
conducted in 2003, American Indians and Alaska Natives face a
diabetes rate which is 249 percent higher than average, a tuberculosis
rate 533 percent higher than average and an alcoholism rate 627
percent higher than average. - More...
Tuesday - August 31, 2004
Dick
Morris: Bush
Bounce A'Building - After one of the weakest convention performances
in memory, John Kerry has had the worst post-convention period
since Walter Mondale found himself defending Geraldine Ferraro's
husband's business accounting in 1984.
Even before the gavel pounded
opening the 2004 Republican Convention, the Kerry bounce was
over and President Bush entered the first day of his conclave
with a lead in most national polls. (He's four ahead in the L.A.
Times poll and three up in Rasmussen's daily tracking survey.)
- More...
Tuesday - August 31, 2004
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June Allen Column
Harold
Gillam: A Tragic Final Flight; Ketchikan remembers the search
- Harold Gillam was among the boldest of those gutsy pioneer
bush pilots who painted Alaska's early aviation history on an
enormous canvas of rugged and unforgiving wilderness often cradled
in the foulest, most extreme weather on the planet.
Oldtime pilots said that there
were three kinds of Alaska weather: clear and unlimited, called
Pan Am weather; then ordinary weather, and lastly, there was
"Gillam weather." While more prudent pilots sat out
the worst days, the quiet-loner Gillam would shake his head and
say, "The weather's never as bad as it looks." - Read
the rest of this story by June Allen...
Tuesday - August 17, 2004
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
Alaska's
Deepwater Highway; A part of Alaska history
Ketchikan's
American Legionnaires; Here's to 'the boys' of Post #3 -
Ketchikan's
Cruise Ship Industry; A light-hearted look at its origins
Ketchikan's
First City Players; Did you hear that applause?
A
biography of Alaska's herring: A little fish of huge importance...
Read more stories by June Allen...
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'Our Troops'
Ketchikan Charter Commission
Website
Download the Draft Charter
Petition
(201 pages, 944KB)
Scheduled Meetings:
Sept. 3rd, 6 pm
Sept. 10th, 6 pm
Sept. 17th, 6 pm regular meeting
Sept. 17th, 7 pm Public Hearing
September 24, 6 pm All meetings will be held in the City Council
Chambers
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Ketchikan Regular Election
Tuesday - Oct. 5th
Filing for local office
began August 10th and ends Sept. 7th at 5:00 pm.
KGB Election Info
Assembly - Two three-year terms
Mike Painter filed 08/10/04: Assembly 3-Year Term
John A. Harrington filed 08/30/04: Assembly 3-Year Term
Glen Thompson filed 08/31/04: Assembly 3-Year Term
School Board - Two three-year terms & One 1-year
term
City Election Info
City Council: Two 3-year seats & One 1-year
seat
Tom Coyne filed 08/10/04: Council 3-Year Term
Lew Williams filed 08/16/04: Council 3-Year Term
George Lybrand filed 08/17/04: Council 1-Year Term
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