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Wednesday
September 24, 2003
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Photo by Dick Kauffman
Ketchikan: Front
Page Photo - Ward Creek - This photograph of Ward Creek was
taken Monday afternoon..... Southeast sagas: Chief
Johnson remembered; Native leader was a keen trader and wise
in the ways of Western property rights - One of the lesser-known
Tlingit leaders who resided in Juneau during its early years
was George Johnson. This leader is also known as Skookum Johnson,
Chief Johnson, and Gut Wain or Geet Wain. Johnson had links to
Tongass, Metlakatla and Ketchikan as well as Juneau. - Read
more... Our Troops- Spc. Michael
Moniak: Juneau
homecoming - Like many teenagers, Spc. Michael Moniak couldn't
wait to bust out of his hometown after graduating from high school.
Juneau was small and stifling, and he wanted to see the world.
- Read
more... Alaska: State
of Alaska, Department of Defense, and Industry Launch Land Mobile
Radio System - The Alaska Land Mobile Radio (ALMR) Executive
Council announced completion of the concept demonstration phase
of a new statewide shared public-safety communications system.
The ALMR system is the first shared Federal, State and local
public safety, digital wireless communications system in the
United States. - Read
more... Alaska: Office
of Children's Services foster care programs pass federal eligibility
review - About 40 Office of Children's Services (OCS) staff,
assembled last Thursday in the Juneau Office conference room
and via teleconference, greeted results of a recent federal review
with applause. OCS had just concluded a 4-day Title IV-E Foster
Care Eligibility Review which focuses on whether a child meets
statutory eligibility requirements for foster care maintenance
payments. "We read 80 cases and found one error, and these
are wonderful, remarkable results,"said Carol Overbeck,
Foster Care Specialist with the Administration for Children &
Families in the US Dept. of Health & Human Services. In the
Title IV-E review protocols, a state can have up to 8 cases fail
to meet standards before secondary reviews are required. - Read
more... Ketchikan: Nine
UAS Ketchikan Students Accepted to UAA Nursing Program -
Nine students have been accepted to the Ketchikan cohort for
the first Associate of Applied Science in Nursing being offered
by the University of Alaska Anchorage Nursing Program. The nursing
program will offer two-year associate of applied science degrees
in nursing to sites outside of Anchorage via distance delivery
every two years beginning January 2004. - Read
more... Alaska: Alaska
to compile & contribute data to National Violent Death Reporting
System; Making sense of homicide data is a first step to preventing
violent deaths - The Alaska Dept. of Health & Social
Services received a grant of $170,747 from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention in Atlanta (CDC) to develop a National
Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), Commissioner Joel Gilbertson
announced Monday. The NVDRS will allow states and communities
to develop a system to collect timely, complete, and accurate
information about violent deaths. Alaska is one of seven states
to receive this funding this year. Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Wisconsin are also being funded and
are in the process of developing the NVDRS for their communities.
- Read
more... Alaska: Governor
Appoints 12 to Boards and Commissions ; Former Legislator Dick
Shultz Appointed to Teachers' Retirement Board - Tuesday
Governor Frank Murkowski announced the recent appointments of
12 people to fill state boards and commissions including the
Teachers' Retirement Board, Western Interstate/Higher Education
Commission, Workforce Investment Board, Independent Living Council,
Midwives Board, Humanities Forum, and the Broadcasting Commission.
- Read
more... Ketchikan & Statewide: Delegation
Announces Grants To Alaska Programs - The Alaska Congressional
Delegation announced a series of federal grants to local communities,
groups, and agencies in the State of Alaska. - Read
more... Science: Collapsing
Populations of Marine Mammals: the North Pacific's Whaling Legacy?
- The rapid depletion of at least a half million great whales
from the North Pacific Ocean by intensive industrial whaling
over 50 years ago may have unleashed a complex ecological chain
reaction that has since rippled resoundingly from ocean to coastal
ecosystems, according to a team of eight scientists, including
Dr. Jim Estes, a U.S. Geological Survey research ecologist and
adjunct professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The article appeared Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences online Early Edition. - Read
more...
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