Sunday
September 05, 2004
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Ketchikan: Listen to this KRBD story... When the Ketchikan
Gateway Borough Assembly meets Tuesday, it will consider canceling
all agreements pertaining to a land swap that would benefit the
proposed Ketchikan Center for the Arts. As Deanna Garrison reports,
the Assembly will also consider granting eight acres of Borough
land in Ward Cove to the Ketchikan Regional Cold Storage Association.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Sunday - September 05, 2004
Ketchikan: Listen to this KRBD story... The City of
Ketchikan will continue to operate two state-owned harbors in
the Ketchikan Gateway Borough for another six months. Hole-in-the-Wall
and Knudson Cove harbor users asked the City to retain management
of the harbors as they seek to keep the facilities in public
ownership. Deanna Garrison reports.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
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POW: Listen to this KRBD story... With its extensive
network of roads and trails as well as outdoor recreation and
hunting opportunities, Prince of Wales Island is a likely place
for people for people to literally get lost. It happens several
times a year and the act of finding a lost person takes up the
time of volunteers and professionals. But as Jay Marble reports,
the time spent searching could be reduced with the help of a
local search dog.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Sunday - September 05, 2004
Alaska: Alaska's
International Exports Strengthen by $137 Million - Through
the first half of 2004 international exports from Alaska grew
$137 million or 12% for a total of $1.3 billion in trade. This
is growth is above and beyond the tremendous increases in 2003,
which finished the year up 9% above 2002 levels.
"Trade is especially important
because it brings billions of new dollars into the state and
creates jobs for Alaskans," said Governor Murkowski. "International
buyers value the high quality of our resources and our stable
business climate."
Seafood sales accounted for
a majority of the trade, increasing 20% to $806 million, compared
to $670 million at this time last year. Growth in fish roe sales
led the way, increasing $50 million over the same time period
last year. Combined sales of fresh and frozen cod climbed $34
million, salmon exports increased $16 million and crab improved
$8 million. The only sizable decline was in herring exports,
which fell $3 million compared to June results from last year.
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Sunday - September 05, 2004
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Hand Therapist Lucy
Marie Cruise
Photo by Kathy Stack
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Ketchikan: Providing
a continuum of care - Monday is Labor Day. A day to pause
from the regular routine to honor the nation's working men and
women and the traditional end of the summer season. Among Ketchikan's
many professional and skilled labor force is hand therapist Lucy
Marie Cruise who specializes in rehabilitating patients with
conditions affecting the hands.
Cruise works for Ketchikan
General Hospital in the therapy department. As a hand therapist
she works with the physician and patient - in any situation -
to provide a continuum of care. This often starts within days
of the injury or surgery right through to the patient's return
to work and/or a productive lifestyle. She provides therapy for
patients who may have experienced repetitive stress injuries
and provides the therapy ordered as follow up treatments for
fractures, crush injuries, lacerations, and tendon and repair
surgeries. According to Cruise, a patient may have multiple therapy
needs such as those produced by a crush injury which might involve
broken bones, lacerations and cut tendons. - More...
Sunday - September 05, 2004
Ketchikan: Can
a clue in Alaska Help Solve the Greatest Aviation Mystery in
History? - A group called The International Group for Historic
Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR pronounced "Tiger") has discovered
some aircraft parts they think could be from Amelia Earhart's
Lockheed Electra 10 on a remote southwest Pacific island called
Nikumaroro. Nikumaroro Island is located a couple of hundred
miles south of Howland Island. On July 2, 1937 Earhart and her
navigator Fred Noonan not only flew into history but into legend
when they disappeared while trying to fly from Lae, New Guinea
to Howland Island on a round the world attempt. -
More...
Sunday - September 05, 2004
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Ketchikan Humorist
 How
the World Wags by Dave Kiffer:
Branding
Ketchikan - The Ketchikan Visitors Bureau is conducting a
"branding" campaign in order to come up with a way
to better market Ketchikan to visitors. This process does sound
rather painful, but it does make sense because the visitor industry
has supplanted other industries as the engine of the local economy.
As much as we like to say Ketchikan is a "working"
community, the only real work we seem to be doing lately is for
the benefit of those who want to come here to see us "work."
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Sunday - September 05, 2004
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Alaska: Neanderthal
life no tougher than that of modern Inuits - The bands of
ancient Neanderthals that struggled throughout Europe during
the last Ice Age faced challenges no tougher than those confronted
by the modern Inuit, or Eskimos. - More...
Sunday - September 05, 2004
Alaska: Pleasure
boat sinks in Resurrection Bay, two die - Two people drowned
Saturday in Resurrection Bay near Seward, Alaska when their boat
took on water and they decided to swim for shore, according to
Alaska State Troopers and the USCG. -
More...
Sunday - September 05, 2004
Alaska: Principi
Grants Waiver for Conversion of Palmer Pioneers' Home to a State
Veterans' Home - Anthony Principi, Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs, granted Alaska a waiver that
will allow the Palmer Veterans' and Pioneers' Home to continue
serving non-veteran senior citizens. -
More...
Sunday - September 05, 2004
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Alaska & Ketchikan News
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Ketchikan Regular Election
Tuesday - Oct. 5th
Filing for local office
began August 10th and ends Sept. 7th at 5:00 pm.
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City
Election Info
City Council: Two 3-year seats & One 1-year
seat
Tom Coyne filed 08/10/04: Council 3-Year Term
Lew Williams filed 08/16/04: Council 3-Year Term
George Lybrand filed 08/17/04: Council 1-Year Term
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KGB
Election Info
Assembly - Two three-year terms
Mike Painter filed 08/10/04: Assembly 3-Year Term
John A. Harrington filed 08/30/04: Assembly 3-Year Term
Glen Thompson filed 08/31/04: Assembly 3-Year Term
School Board - Two three-year terms & One 1-year
term
Joel W. Jackson filed 09/02/04: School Board - 3-Year
Term
Dave Lieben filed 09/03/04: School Board - 3-Year
Term
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June Allen Column
 Harold
Gillam: A Tragic Final Flight; Ketchikan remembers the search
- Harold Gillam was among the boldest of those gutsy pioneer
bush pilots who painted Alaska's early aviation history on an
enormous canvas of rugged and unforgiving wilderness often cradled
in the foulest, most extreme weather on the planet.
Oldtime pilots said that there
were three kinds of Alaska weather: clear and unlimited, called
Pan Am weather; then ordinary weather, and lastly, there was
"Gillam weather." While more prudent pilots sat out
the worst days, the quiet-loner Gillam would shake his head and
say, "The weather's never as bad as it looks." - Read
the rest of this story by June Allen...
Tuesday - August 17, 2004
Ketchikan's
'Fish House Tessie'; She was proud of the nickname
Fairbanks:
Golden Heart City; A story of its founding
Remembering
'Swede' Risland (1915-1991);The town's most memorable logger
Alaska's
Deepwater Highway; A part of Alaska history
Ketchikan's
American Legionnaires; Here's to 'the boys' of Post #3 -
Ketchikan's
Cruise Ship Industry; A light-hearted look at its origins
Ketchikan's
First City Players; Did you hear that applause?
A
biography of Alaska's herring: A little fish of huge importance...
Read more stories by June Allen...
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