Thursday
October 28, 2004
Nine
New U.S. Citizens
Front Page Photo
by Carl Thompson
Ketchikan: Nine
New U.S. Citizens - Nine people - Alberto Arellano Bondoc
Sr, Christine Cooke, David Scott Gould, Mathew Cooke,
Reynaldo Buella Dineros, Lolita Seludo Baze, Sofia Lopez
Bondoc, Miriam Noble Estacio, and Elena Anatolievna Martin -
took their oath Wednesday at the Federal Building in Ketchikan
and became United States Citizens. - More...
Thursday - October 28, 2004
Alaska: ADF&G
Releases Summary of the 2004 Salmon Season - The Alaska Department
of Fish and Game's Division of Commercial Fisheries on Wednesday
posted its preliminary end-of-season estimates of commercial
harvest and value for the 2004 salmon season. - More...
Thursday - October 28, 2004
Alaska: State
veterinarian announces immediate import restrictions to prevent
Chronic Wasting Disease - The Alaska state veterinarian is
banning the importation of whole carcasses and certain carcass
parts including heads and any portion of the spinal column from
cervidae including mule deer, white-tailed deer, black-tailed
deer, and elk, and other species that may become susceptible
to Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The move is being taken to
prevent the transmission of the disease into Alaska and to protect
the agricultural and wildlife resources of the state. - More...
Thursday - October 28, 2004
Alaska: State
Holds Oil and Gas Lease Sales - Alaska Commissioner of Natural
Resources Tom Irwin announced Wednesday that the state received
$14.8 million in bonus bids for leasing 366,080 acres in its
Beaufort Sea and North Slope areawide oil and gas lease sales.
The Beaufort Sea lease sale drew the most money of any Beaufort
Sea sale since 1997. The Beaufort Sea and North Slope areawide
sales are part of the state's ongoing areawide leasing program.
- More...
Thursday - October 28, 2004
Alaska: ADF&G
Commissioner Announces Withdrawal of Proposed Regulations For
On-Bottom Aquaculture in Kachemak Bay - Alaska Department
of Fish and Game (ADF&G) Commissioner, Kevin C. Duffy, announced
Wednesday his decision to leave in place the current ban on on-bottom
aquatic farming in the Kachemak Bay Critical Habitat Area. The
regulatory changes proposed by ADF&G in July 2004 will be
withdrawn because of the Commissioner's decision. - More...
Thursday - October 28, 2004
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A boarding team
member deploys from an Air Station Sitka Jayhawk helicopter to
Coast Guard cutter Naushon during a vertical insertion training
exercise. - Official U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer
William Greer, Air Station Sitka
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Ketchikan: Coast
Guard personnel conduct vertical insertion training - United
States Coast Guard units from Southeast Alaska and San Francisco
participated in a three-day vertical insertion exercise in Sitka
recently to maintain proficiency at vertical insertion from helicopters
as well as qualifying aircrews and boarding team personnel. -
More...
Thursday - October 28, 2004
Columnists
 Mike
Reagan: An
October Surprise - John Kerry, CBS, The New York Times, the
U.N.'s Mohamed El Baradei, the other networks and most of the
mainstream media surmised they had a dandy "October Surprise"
to spring on President Bush just days before the election
but their surmise fizzled. Their planned October Surprise that
was supposed to bring about the president's defeat tuned out
to be just more left-wing blather and they got hoisted by their
own petards. - More...
Thursday - October 28, 2004
 Jacqueline Marcell: ELDER
RAGE: IF I ONLY KNEW THEN--WHAT I KNOW NOW - For eleven years
I begged my obstinate elderly father to allow a caregiver to
help him with my ailing mother, but after 55 years of loving
her, he adamantly insisted on taking care of her himself. Every
caregiver I hired to help him sighed in exasperation, "Jacqueline,
I just can't work with your father--his temper is impossible
to handle. I don't think you'll be able to get him to accept
help until he's on his knees himself." - More...
Thursday - October 28, 2004
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