2005 Sam Pitcher Music Scholarship
Winners Announced
Jeffery Karlson and
Jamie Karlson
Photo courtesy Sam Pitcher Memorial Fund Committee
Ketchikan: 2005
Sam Pitcher Music Scholarship Winners Announced - The recipients
of this year's Sam Pitcher Music Scholarships are twins Jamie
and Jeffery Karlson. Jamie and Jeffery have each been awarded
$500 scholarships which they plan to apply towards attending
Interlochen Fine Arts Camp in Michigan. They auditioned along
with four other finalists to win the scholarships. Judging the
auditions were local musicians Jim Alguire, Sarah Corporon, Heidi
Hays and Carrie Tocco. - More...
Thursday - March 10, 2005
National: Bush
pushes to open up Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by Bill
Straub - With crude oil prices exceeding $55 a barrel, President
Bush on Wednesday pressed Congress to adopt a national energy
policy that includes opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge to drilling.- More...
Thursday - March 10, 2005
National: No
'crisis' for Social Security, GAO boss says by Margaret Talev
- The head of the Government Accountability Office on Wednesday
rejected the term "crisis" to describe Social Security's
money problems but told lawmakers the sooner they can enact long-term
reforms, the less pain American workers and retirees are likely
to feel from fixes such as tax increases or reduced benefits.
- More...
Thursday - March 10, 2005
National: Congressional
Republicans unveil budget plans By Lawrence M. O'Rourke -
Congressional Republicans Wednesday proposed tax and spending
plans for the U.S. government that would allocate more for defense,
homeland security and tax cuts while trimming social programs
and providing for a tax cut.- More...
Thursday - March 10, 2005
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Social Services Commissioner
Joel Gilbertson and Governor Frank Murkowski at Wednesday's rally
in Juneau...
Photo courtesy Office of the Governor
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Alaska: Rally
In Support of Breast and Cervical Cancer Health Check Program;
Proposal will provide screening services to 9,200 women a year
- Gov. Frank H. Murkowski, First Lady Nancy Murkowski and Alaska
Health and Social Services Commissioner Joel Gilbertson spoke
Wednesday at a rally on the steps of the Capitol Building in
support of the Alaska Breast and Cervical Cancer Health Check
program funding.
"Breast and cervical cancer
are killers that are, fortunately, treatable with early detection,"
said Gov. Murkowski. "This program has provided a real service
to Alaska women who otherwise could not afford to get the early
screening that could save their lives." - More...
Thursday - March 10, 2005
National: More
ills laid at feet of secondhand smoke by Edi Lau and Dorsey
Griffith - A sweeping new study on the health risks of breathing
second-hand smoke adds breast cancer and premature birth to an
already long list of ills associated with cigarettes.
- More...
Thursday - March 10, 2005
National: House
approves National Tartan Day by Logan C. Adams - Julia Child,
Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Morse, Edgar Allan Poe, one-tenth of
Nobel Prize winners, 35 Supreme Court justices, one-third of
all U.S. secretaries of state and one-fourth of U.S. presidents
have something in common. - More...
Thursday - March 10, 2005
Alaska: Resolution opposing fish farms passes;
Measure tells Congress, president to keep farms out of federal
waters - A resolution
telling Congress and the president to keep fish farms out of
federal ocean waters in Alaska was approved Wednesday by the
House Fisheries Committee. - More....
Juneau Empire - Thursday
- March 10, 2005
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