Tuesday
September 28, 2004
'Civic
Center Sunset'
Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
 Alaska: Governor
Reports "Alaska Wild Salmon" Marketing Success
- The State of Alaska is succeeding in building national brand
awareness for Alaska wild salmon through an innovative matching
grant program started last year, Governor Frank H. Murkowski
said in a press conference Monday. Murkowski, Legal Seafoods
CEO Roger Berkowitz, and NorQuest Seafoods President John Garner
joined the governor to talk about the significant impact the
state's matching grant salmon marketing program has had on building
consumer brand awareness for Alaska wild salmon.
In 2003, the governor called
on private industry to match $10 million of state funds to more
effectively market Alaska salmon to the Lower 48. The Alaska
Salmon Marketing Program is a key component of the Salmon Revitalization
Strategy, initiated by Governor Murkowski with funding provided
by Senator Ted Stevens. It is a multi-level, multi-year plan
designed to spur increased productivity and innovation in the
Alaska fishing industry. - More...
Tuesday - September 28, 2004
Ketchikan: UAS
Ketchikan Essay Contest Winners Announced - Three talented
and creative people won the University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan
campus 50th Anniversary Essay Contest. Winners were announced
at the Commemorative Event held on Saturday, September 25 at
the main campus, located at 2600 Seventh Avenue - Read...
Tuesday - September 28, 2004
Southeast Alaska:
Intensive search continued for float plane occupants - Coast
Guard helicopter crews, assisted by Angoon Search and Rescue,
Civil Air Patrol (CAP), Good Samaritan and Harris Air aircrew
teams, continued searching Monday for a charter float plane and
its five occupants missing since last Monday afternoon. -
More...
Tuesday - September 28, 2004
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Mescalero Apache dancers
performed twice
at the tribal house in Saxman...
Photo by Yeda Hicks
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Ketchikan: Mescalero
performers go north to Alaska - Eight Mescalero students
went kayaking and saw seals, whales and hundreds of eagles this
summer - during a cultural exchange trip to Alaska.
The students were members of
the Mescalero Apache School Performing Arts Group, ranging from
eighth grade through graduating seniors, and their guide was
teacher John Vlaun, who used to live in Ketchikan.
The performing arts group has
performed around the Southwest, won the Governor's Choice Award
at the State Fair last year in Albuquerque, and performed at
the opening ceremony at the Gathering of Nations, the largest
pow-wow in the country.
For the students the trip to
Alaska meant not only seeing a new part of the world and new
experiences but also meeting Native Alaskans, performing for
them and watching them perform.- More...
Tuesday - September 28, 2004
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Randy Rush weighs in
an 18.0 pound Silver. Rush is from Scottsdale, Arizona.
Photo courtesy Knudson Cove Marina,
photo by Misty Pattison
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Ketchikan: 21
Pound Silver Holds Lead; Ketchikan Little League Silver Salmon
Derby Ends Sept. 30th - The latest standings as of mid-day
Sunday, September 26th, has Terril Howard of Ketchikan in first
place with a 21 pound Silver Salmon. Listed in second place is
Cynthia Stern of Grandby, Colorado with her 19.6 pound Silver
Salmon and in third place is Stephanie Pattison of Ward Cove
with an 18.4 pound Silver. Weighing in an 18.0 pound Silver and
claiming the fourth place position is Randy Rush of Scottsdale,
Arizona. Also weighing in an 18.0 pound Silver and in fifth place
is Richard Atwood of Ward Cove, Alaska. - More...
Tuesday - September 28, 2004
Columnists
 Howard Dean: The
Myth of Corporate Accountability - In recent years, thousands
of good-paying American jobs have been sent overseas. Free trade
has made it much easier for corporations to do business elsewhere,
but free trade does not make it easier to protect workers and
the environment elsewhere. This results in lost American jobs
and downward pressure on American wages and benefits; leading
to just what short-sighted leaders in the world business community
hoped for - to make quarterly results better. - More...
Tuesday - September 27, 2004
 Dave Kiffer: Ketchikan
Flashback - Last month my family and I spent a few days in
Wenatchee, Washington. It was hot (105 degrees), dry (maybe a
foot of rain a year) and everything Ketchikan is not. But it
did give me a great, big Ketchikan flashback.
It happened after I parked
the rental car downtown for awhile. When I came back out of the
store, there was a big yellow slash on the front tire.- More...
Tuesday - September 27, 2004
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June Allen Column
John
Koel, Baker to Banker; An eccentric philanthropist John Koel
was a well-known figure in Ketchikan from the day he arrived
in 1901 to the day he died in 1946. The eldest son of German
immigrants who settled in the Midwest, Koel was a 38-year-old
confirmed bachelor, a slight man with high cheekbones, a small
mustache and a tidy bankroll he had saved to finance his adventure
in Alaska. A baker by trade and already a canny businessman when
he alighted on the steamship dock, he quickly toured the new
city of Ketchikan and almost immediately opened the OK Bakery
on Dock Street, near the intersection with Main Street. - Read
the rest of this story by June Allen...
Tuesday - September 07, 2004
 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
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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