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Tuesday
December 09, 2003
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Donor: Ed Elliott, Courtesy Tongass Historical Society
and colorful Mgr. Jim Pinkerton By June Allen
Madison Lumber & Hardware, Inc. ~ Downtown Drugstore ~ Alaska Glass & Supply ~ Sourdough Bar Liquor Store ~ Davies-Barry Insurance ~ Sitnews... Ketchikan: Commissioner
says no cuts planned for Alaska elderly - State Health and
Social Services Commissioner Joel Gilbertson reassured Ketchikan
residents that the Murkowski administration is not planning budget
cuts for the elderly. - Read
this story... Alaska: Lease Buyback is Last Resort Says Governor - Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski has made it clear that consideration of the state buying back any coalbed methane leases in the Mat-Su and on the Kenai Peninsula would only be after all other options are exhausted. "The state will consider buybacks of shallow natural gas leases only as a last resort," Murkowski said on Thursday, December 4, while responding to a question during a press conference. DNR is currently engaged with
the public in crafting rules, such as setback requirements, noise
limitations, and water quality monitoring, that will be required
for coalbed methane development in the Mat-Su Borough. - Read
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For half a century Ketchikan Cold Storage's concrete
building, drab and unadorned, stood like a gray, man-made accompaniment
to the rocky face of Knob Hill just behind it. A big structure
shoehorned into the Front and Water Street corner of the busy
downtown docks, the historic cold storage was a major factor
in Ketchikan's flourishing fishing history. For fifty years the
facility bought, froze and shipped halibut, salmon, and sablefish
(black cod) to markets around the world. By mid-century, weakened
North Pacific fishery stocks and a shrinking industry, fires
in adjacent wooden storage facilities, and finally a wrecking
ball reduced KCS to memory only. Today, bottoms-up Eagle Park
stands as a memorial to its passing - for those who remember
it. -
Ketchikan: Olson
Named KGH Employee of the Month for December - Wendy
Olson, an employee of Ketchikan General Hospital (KGH) for over
11 years, has been named Employee of the Month by a committee
of her peers. Her first KGH position was as a Desktop Specialist
in Information Technology until April 2001. At that time
she transferred to the Human Resources Department as an HR Specialist.
Olson's job involves working with the employees to complete
new hire procedures, coordinate employee benefits, Worker's Compensation,
payroll, employee events, housing for temporary employees, and
keeping track of a wide array of details involved in personnel
procedures and regulations. - Read
more... Holidays: Did
17th Century Protestants Really Ban Christmas? - Christmas
in mid-17th century puritanical America was outlawed by Protestant
reformists as "another one of those idol-worshipping religious
festivals well worth expunging," says Colgate University
professor Anthony Aveni. Author of "The Book of the Year
- A History of Our Holidays," Aveni explores the myths and
origins of the December 25 holiday extending back to Neolithic
cultures. - Read
more... Holidays: Professor Offers Advice to Holiday Newsletter Writers - Sometimes they're long, sometimes short. Often, they are too boastful or too boring. They are computer-generated
family newsletters that arrive with cards. They come from your
aunt Barbara (who writes at length about her cats) or your old
college roommate (now very successful with two brilliant children).
- Read
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Science: Researchers publish Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map; First map of an entire global biome at useable level of detail - Institute of Arctic Biology (IAB) researcher Donald (Skip) Walker and an international team of Arctic vegetation scientists have published the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM) - the first map of an entire global biome at such a level of detail. The 11-year CAVM project, directed by Walker, who also heads IAB's Alaska Geobotany Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, involved vegetation scientists representing the six countries of the Arctic - Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, and the United States - to map the vegetation and associated characteristics of the circumpolar region, using a common base map. "A vegetation map of the
Arctic is especially needed now because the Arctic is increasingly
recognized as a single geoecosystem with a common set of cultural,
political, economic, and ecological issues. Accelerated land-use
change and climate change in the Arctic made the effort more
urgent," Walker said. - Read
more...
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