'Replacement
Ferry'
After the City of Loring's dock
was removed, the residents now
must get permission to use a "replacement ferry". -
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Front Page Photo by Jim Dahl
Dale McKinnon chats
with the Sitnews' editor the day before she begins her 800-Mile
rowing adventure...
Photo by Dick Kauffman
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Ketchikan: An
Extraordinary Woman, An Extraordinary Adventure; From Ketchikan
To Fairhaven, An 800-Mile Journey - There are women and then
there are Women. This story is about one in particular, who,
on Friday, June 18th, began an extraordinary journey. Her name
is Dale McKinnon. There have been a few articles written about
her lately, and with good reason.
Nearly three weeks ago, 58-year
old McKinnon started her 800-mile mission to bring a small measure
of financial help and attention to the plight of Northwest Youth
Services, an organization in Washington State that aids troubled
teens. She has watched the local, State, and Federal funding
dry up over time, and as Ms McKinnon had not had an easy youth
herself, she wanted to help. Dale McKinnon is rowing a small
wooden boat on a two month long voyage, from Ketchikan, Alaska
to her home of the last 7 years, Fairhaven, Washington. Pledges
per mile are her inspiration to continue on through bad weather,
rough seas, bloody blisters, and the strong tides of Southeast
Alaskan and Canadian waters.
She built the boat herself,
and this is not her first. McKinnon has built 3 boats to date,
even entering an exhibit at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Show
last year. She began building the Bella (named after her granddaughter,
Isabella) early May and finished it just six weeks later. It
is, thanks to advice from other rowers and some creative modifications,
a one of a kind.
McKinnon is not the typical
sportswoman, having rowed a total of 4 hours in her life before
three years ago. In the 55 years before that, she hadn't rowed
anything anywhere. She now attempts to cover as many miles a
day as the weather, her dory (the boat) and her own strength
will allow. - Read
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Friday - July 09, 2004
Profile America - Friday, July 9th. When Nan Jane
Aspinwall finished delivering a letter from the mayor of San
Francisco to the mayor of New York City, the last thing she probably
wanted to do was sit down. That's because she brought the letter
with her on horseback - the first woman to cross America riding
a horse. She left San Francisco on September 1, 1910, and arrived
in New York 301 days later - after a trip of 45-hundred miles
in all sorts of weather. When Nan Jane Aspinwall made her journey
of endurance, there were nearly 20-million horses in America
and just under half a million cars and trucks. Today, there are
5.5-million horses and more than 230-million motor vehicles.
- Source U.S. Census Bureau...
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