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February 24, 2004
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Dempsey, a member of Jim & ML Dahl's family. Front Page Photo by Mary L. Dahl
Ketchikan: Listen to this story... Rescuers have resumed
their search for a missing Cape Pole fisherman after his dog
was found alive Thursday evening at Port Alice on Heceta Island.
As Deanna Garrison reports, Greg Clark has been missing since
the fishing vessel he and his dog were on ran aground off the
Northwest Coast of Prince of Wales Island last month. Education: Paige Smears Teachers' Group as 'Terrorist'- During a private gathering of American governors Monday in Washington, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige called the nation's largest teachers' union - the National Education Association - "a terrorist organization," according to the Associated Press. NEA President Reg Weaver said,
"It is morally repugnant to equate those who teach America's
children with terrorists. NEA is 2.7 million teachers and
educators who are fighting for children and public education.
Yet this is the kind of rhetoric we have come to expect from
this Administration whenever one challenges its worldview."
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more... Ketchikan: Listen to this story... The Alaska Department
of Environmental Conservation is soliciting comments on a draft
log storage permit for the Ketchikan Gateway Borough's Ward Cove
Veneer Mill. As Deanna Garrison reports, the log storage permit
is just one of the hurdles the borough says it must overcome
in order to find an operator to run the plant. |
Ketchikan: Ketchikan
Kicks Off Sign Up for Bowl for Kids Sake - On February 20th
sign-up for Bowl for Kids Sake in Ketchikan kicked off. Eight
Teams with four persons per team signed up to go out and get
pledges. Gretchen Klein, Coordinator for Ketchikan Big Brothers
Big Sisters program, said, "These people are committed to
giving $150.00 pledges each. Please join us in raising money
for kids and helping to build life long friendships!" The
big event - Bowl For Kids Sake - is scheduled for April 4th.
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Read more... Joann Flora - Compliments
to Your Health: Jan's
Story: Update - On May 30th, 2003, I shared with Sitnews
readers the story of my Ohio friend, Jan Lively (see Sitnews
#14). Jan had survived breast cancer only to have it
metastasize as liver cancer. In January of 2001, her tumor marker
count (a measure of the number of cancerous cells in her body)
was 4500. A friend introduced her to medical qigong and she began
to practice routinely. She found a physician who placed her on
a diet of macrobiotic, organic whole foods. I met Jan at a month
long Chi-Lel Qigong retreat in Hawaii in February of 2002. At
that time, her tumor marker count was 2500; a count of
50 or less is considered "normal". - Read
more... Dear Crabby: YOUNG AND OVERWEIGHT and 'SURVIVOR'
OF FEAR FACTOR, ETC -
This is so ridiculous that I almost feel stupid writing to you.
My mother got very ill three years back, and since we were the
only family she had living in the same state, my husband and
I asked her to move in with us. She's recovered nicely, and hasn't
been any trouble. The kids are in college, so the house is not
overcrowded or anything like that. - Read
more... |
echoes of music from the past By June Allen
Madison Lumber & Hardware, Inc. ~ Downtown Drugstore ~ Alaska Glass & Supply ~ Sourdough Bar Liquor Store ~ Davies-Barry Insurance ~ Sitnews... |
Visually,
not too much has changed along Creek Street over the past century.
Several of the vacant shacks once occupied by sporting women
of the past have managed to survive for decades, boarded off,
defying demolition. A few of today's remaining ramshackle houses
along the boardwalk are more valuable for atmosphere than occupancy.
But the Good Fortune restaurant at #4 now welcomes patrons where
shady lady Annie Watkins once welcomed her gentlemen callers.
Then of course at the other end of the street, at #24, there's
Dolly's House now a museum and gift shop. Dolly's House
today, crowded with cruise ship tourists, would surprise the
sporting woman who owned and occupied it for half a century.
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