Wednesday
August 11, 2004
Governor
Proclaims August Alaska Aviation Safety Month
A Ketchikan based Pacific Airways'
plane makes a sunset landing.
Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
Ketchikan: Governor
Proclaims August Alaska Aviation Safety Month - Encouraging
all Alaskans to recognize the significance of aviation to Alaska
and the importance of aviation safety, Alaska Governor Frank
Murkowski proclamined August 2004 Alaska Aviation Safety Month.
Governor Murkowski stated in the proclamation, "Alaska is
a complex aviation environment due to unusual weather conditions,
mountainous terrain, and distant weather reporting points. Alaska
relies on aviation transportation for service to remote populations
and regions more than any other state and has more small aircraft
and pilots per capita than any other state." - More...
Wednesday - August 11, 2004
Alaska: Is
Assisted Living in Peril for Seniors and Disabled? Lawmakers
implore Murkowski to investigate possible "damaging blow"
- A bipartisan group of eleven State Legislators say recent
carte blanche regulation rewrites at the Department of Health
& Social Services so negatively restrict health care
delivery to some of the state's most frail citizens - senior
citizens and disabled Alaskans - that this bipartisan
group of eleven State Legislators were compelled to strongly
advise Governor Frank Murkowski to cease implementation of his
Home & Community Based Waiver Regulations. - More...
Wednesday - August 11, 2004
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Jenny Johnson
Photo coutesy KGH
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Ketchikan: Johnson
named KGH Employee of the Month for August - Jenny Johnson,
a Registered Nurse in the Surgery Department at Ketchikan General
Hospital (KGH), has been named Employee of the Month by a committee
of her peers.
Johnson came to Ketchikan in 1979 intending to work for one month
on the Medical/Surgical unit. "KGH was different from any
other place I had worked," said Johnson. "That struck
me then, and I believe it today -i t's quite a special place
to work."
When Johnson arrived KGH didn't
have an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and she was instrumental in
opening that unit. She worked in various capacities within the
ICU, and in 1986 transferred to the Emergency Department. In
2003 Johnson joined the Surgery Department doing RN conscious
sedation, mainly in the Gastro-Intestinal Lab. Currently she
works in the Outpatient Surgery area. - More...
Wednesday - August 11, 2004
Ketchikan: Ketchikan
General Hospital achieves perfect score on state survey -
The Ketchikan General Hospital (KGH) Home Health Department was
surveyed last week for State of Alaska licensure as well as for
Medicare certification. The purpose of the survey was to determine
whether the Home Health Department is in compliance with the
more than 800 specific state and federal regulations it must
follow. - More...
Wednesday - August 11, 2004
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State Primary Election
August 24, 2004
Primary Candidates
Ketchikan Regular Election
Tuesday - Oct. 5th
Filing for local
office begins August 10th and ends Sept. 7th at 5:00 pm.
KGB Election Information
Assembly - 2 three-year terms
- Mike Painter filed 08/10/04:
Assembly 3-Year Term
School Board - Two three-year terms & One 1-year
term
City Election Information
City Council: Two 3-year seats & One 1-year
seat
- Tom Coyne filed 08/10/04:
Council 3-Year Term
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 Ketchikan: Listen to this KRBD story... The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Vessel Fairweather is
slated to arrive in its new homeport of Ketchikan this weekend.
Deanna Garrison has the story.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Wednesday - August 11, 2004
Ketchikan: Listen to this KRBD story... The State of
Alaska has put up for sale two boat harbors in the Ketchikan
Gateway Borough. As Deanna Garrison reports, the auction comes
after the City of Ketchikan declined a state offer to take over
the harbors.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Wednesday - August 11, 2004
Northern Pacific: New hypoxic event found off Oregon
coast - For the second time in three years,
a hypoxic "dead zone" has formed off the central Oregon
Coast. It's killing fish, crabs and other marine life and leading
researchers to believe that a fundamental change may be taking
place in ocean conditions in the northern Pacific Ocean.
The event appears similar to
one in 2002, when an area of ocean water with low oxygen content
formed in the nearshore Oregon coast between Newport and Florence,
causing a massive die-off of fish and invertebrate marine species.
The fact that it's happening again is triggering concern among
marine scientists. - More...
Wednesday - August 11, 2004
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