'Reflection'
Reflecting on the efforts made by all for the cause of civil
rights...
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Ketchikan: Elizabeth
Peratrovich Day Celebration Continues Focus on Native Civil Rights
By Sharon Lint - Forty-seven years after her death, Elizabeth
Peratrovich can still pack assembly halls with citizens concerned
about Native Civil Rights.
This time the Southeast Alaska
Discovery Center was filled to overflowing Wednesday night as
throngs of residents from Ketchikan and the surrounding areas
crowded into the small theatre area to celebrate "Elizabeth
Peratrovich Day."
Master of Ceremonies Tom Skultka
opened the celebrations by encouraging leadership, education
and continued cooperation between tribes. "Time does not
stand still," he said. "We need to again become our
people's leaders in a changing world. Our children and grandchildren
depend on us to adjust to the changing world and still remain
who we are, a proud people, proud of our country, proud of our
past."
And the past was what was being
celebrated, and rightly so. Elizabeth Peratrovich Day
was established as a state holiday by the Alaska Legislature
on February 6, 1988, in order to memorialize the contributions
of Elizabeth Peratrovich "for her courageous, unceasing
efforts to eliminate discrimination and bring about equal rights
in Alaska." (AS 44.12.065). - More...
Friday - February 18, 2005
National: Washington
Calling - George who?... farm subsidies ... more by Lance
Gay - In the three decades since President Richard Nixon transformed
George Washington's birthday into today's federal holiday, the
first president's standing among Americans is fading.
Washington College in Chestertown,
Md., which the first president patronized during his life, commissioned
a poll that concluded George Washington today ranks seventh among
the presidents Americans think of as the greatest - behind Abraham
Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Bill
Clinton and George W. Bush. Only 46 percent of the adults recognized
Washington as the general who led the Continental Army, and barely
4 percent of young people identified New York as the place where
the first inauguration was held. - More...
Friday - February 18, 2005
Alaska:
Pacific Salmon Commission Strikes Deal to Hold Directed Fisheries
on Stikine and Taku Rivers - The Alaska Department of Fish
and Game (ADF&G) today announced that for the first time
in almost 20 years, directed fisheries will be held on the Stikine
and Taku Rivers for Chinook salmon. With healthy returns to both
rivers in recent years, representatives of the Pacific Salmon
Commission, meeting this week in Portland, Oregon, agreed to
allow the fisheries to commence as soon as this year. - More...
Friday - February 18, 2005
Alaska: Governor
seeks primacy for regulating state waters - Governor Frank
H. Murkowski has introduced legislation to begin the process
of giving state regulators control over National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System permits and give Alaska more control to regulate
its own waters under the Clean Water Act. - More...
Friday - February 18, 2005
 Ketchikan: Listen to this KRBD story... Chicken of the
Sea is in the process of rolling out a new pouched Alaska smoked
salmon product in grocery stores throughout the country. As Deanna
Garrison reports, about half of the pink salmon pouches are being
produced at Norquest Seafood's Ketchikan plant.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- Friday - February 18, 2005
Ketchikan: March
2005 Women's Conference Focuses On Success - Women constantly
balance work, home, family and personal success. At this year's
Women's Conference at the Ketchikan Campus, participants will
attend workshops to learn how to achieve success and balance
in their lives. - More...
Thursday - February 17, 2005 - Correction
Friday - February 18, 2005
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