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Friday
September 26, 2003
by June Allen
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When Richard Stack arrived in Loring in 1890, he
was ready to roll up his sleeves and begin the task of rebuilding
the Alaska Packing and Fur Co.'s seven-year-old cannery that
had burned shortly before. Richard was a young man who had grown
up in Oakland, Calif., and no doubt been captivated as an adventurous
boy by the Alaska Packer fleet of graceful square-rigger sailing
ships that wintered every year in San Francisco Bay. When he
was old enough, he was hired by Alaska Packers and spent his
first period of that employment in the late 1880s sailing to
Alaska's Cook Inlet area, where he worked in the company's salmon
cannery operations. He must have proved his worth, because he
was later sent to Loring to help rebuild the burned out cannery.
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Alaska: Governor's
"Our Alaska" Show to Help Inform Alaskans; Weekly TV
Program to Air Statewide on GCI Cable TV, ARCS, UATV - Saying
Alaskans can benefit from having more information about the activities
and programs of state government, Governor Frank Murkowski announced
Thursday the start of a weekly half-hour television program,
"Our Alaska." - Read
more... Alaska: Northern
climate, ecosystems driven by cycles of changing sunlight
- Emerging geochemical and biological evidence from Alaskan lake
sediment suggests that slight variations in the sun's intensity
have affected sub-polar climate and ecosystems in a predictable
fashion during the last 12,000 years. - Read
more... Alaska: Attorney
General Announces Gold Creek Oil Spill Settlement With Alaska
Railroad Corporation - Attorney General Gregg Renkes on Thursday
announced a settlement between the State of Alaska and the Alaska
Railroad Corporation concerning the State's claims for oil spill
penalties and damages to Denali State Park from the December
1999 railroad fuel spill near Gold Creek. - Read
more... Alaska: Passage
of Legislation To Authorize FTC's Do-Not-Call List Applauded
by Senators Stevens & Murkowski - Senator Stevens and
Senator Lisa Murkowski on Thursday applauded passage of H.R.
3161, legislation that gives the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
the authority to establish a nationwide do-not-call list, to
reinstate the existing list and to fulfill the intent of the
national do-not-call list. - Read
more...
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