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Sealaska's need of a new CEO

By Dominic Salvato

 

October 28, 2013
Monday PM


As many of "facebooks" Sealaska Shareholders Underground (SSU) members know and I hope Sitnews readers understand, SSU doesn't want Sealaska to fail.

Sealaska Shareholders Underground suggests we change from a resource extraction corporation to a Motion Picture and Television Studio based in Juneau or Ketchikan. One that would be creating a new Alaskan Industry to benefit all Alaskans with Sealaska's people involved at every level.

Alaskan art, Alaskan homeland. Alaskan people, Most of all however, it would make Sealaska's people the most valuable renewable resource.

The first project, an epic action adventure of the coming into existence of our people and how we have survived for thousands of years here in our homeland, Alaska..

For this we need a CEO that understands how difficult this would be to accomplish, but with hard work, possible.

The man I think could accomplish the project is no friend of SSU. In reality has been used by management in questionable ways (creating support for management and the Sealaska bill). However, he has a realistic perspective of what change would take and how many people it would involve.

The man I suggest become the next Sealaska CEO is the Sealaska shareholder Morgan Howard of Morgan Howard Productions.

May I add, as a child watching the movie "Cry Vengeance" filmed in Ketchikan in 1954, and getting the autographs of Martha Hyre and the character actor Mort Mills in the process, Making movies is an interesting business and sometimes a very profitable one, although, admittedly somewhat riskier, but more rewarding morally, then chopping down every tree in the Tongass for profit.

The opening scene of "Cry Vengeance" shows the late Ketchikan resident Norm Staton shot through the post office boxes working as a post office employee, as he was at that time.

He went on to own Staton's Steak House in Sitka.

Dominic Salvato
Sealaska Shareholders Underground (Facebook)
Anchorage, Alaska

Received October 28, 2013 - Published October 28, 2013

 

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