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October 27, 2003
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Bill Fisher pulls his boat out during a very high tide Sunday. photo by Carl Thompson
Across Mission Street from
the former Bon and dime store sites, the venerable old St. John's
Church, the Seamen's Center and the Coliseum Theater still anchor
the "historic" Ketchikan. But on the water side of
Mission a "new era" will be evident next season when
those beloved old businesses become something else, something
mostly related to tourism. Changes are painful for oldtimers,
but changes are nothing new. - Read
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Ketchikan: Times change, especially lately
and especially in the heart of downtown Ketchikan. The Bon Marche
store that was a city center landmark since 1913 moved to the
Plaza Mall back in 1990 and then closed its doors for good in
December 2001. Now the Bon building is facing a bigger change.
The Ben Franklin dime store next door to the Bon - and a fixture
on Mission Street for 67 years, is closing its doors in just
a few days. Both losses are indications of a new era, a new economic
base, a new century.
The Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC) and Northern Sales Corporation supplied the food and refreshments for Project Ketchikan's cookout and Roberta McCreary of the Ketchikan Arts Council and LaToya Gates of Big Brothers Big Sisters promoted the event according to Gretchen Klein. Klein said, "There are countless others we can not thank enough for their dedication to this project." Project Ketchikan is sponsored
by Historic Ketchikan and the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities
Council. - View
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Ketchikan: The
top 10 places to buy a second home -Looking for vacation
property that's a good investment as well? These communities
offer weather, scenery and active real estate markets. - Read
more... Education: More
evidence shows that children's brains with dyslexia respond abnormally
to language stimuli; Imaging studies yield a potential core marker
for reading problems, underscore neurological basis of difficulties
- Researchers have additional evidence that reading problems
are linked to abnormal sound processing, thanks to high-precision
pictures of the brain at work. In a recent study, when children
without reading problems tried to distinguish between similar
spoken syllables, speech areas in the left brain worked much
harder than corresponding areas in the right brain, whose function
is still unknown. But when children with dyslexia made the same
attempt, those right-brain areas actually worked harder, going
into overdrive after a brief delay. These findings appear in
the October issue of Neuropsychology, which is published by the
American Psychological Association (APA).- Read
more... Science: Bad Mileage: 98 tons of plants per gallon; Study shows vast amounts of 'buried sunshine' needed to fuel society - A staggering 98 tons of prehistoric, buried plant material - that's 196,000 pounds - is required to produce each gallon of gasoline we burn in our cars, SUVs, trucks and other vehicles, according to a study conducted at the University of Utah. "Can you imagine loading
40 acres worth of wheat - stalks, roots and all - into the tank
of your car or SUV every 20 miles?" asks ecologist Jeff
Dukes, whose study will be published in the November issue of
the journal Climatic Change. -
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