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Friday
November 14, 2003
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Photo by Carl Thompson
Ketchikan: Wind,
rain buffets Ketchikan - While some residents suffered
earlier this week without their Internet service, it didn't compare
to the hardship of the two guys who fixed the problem. - Read
more... Ketchikan: Front Page Photo 'Lights of Bar Harbor'- Bar Harbor is calm Thursday afternoon following the high winds earlier Thursday morning. Thursday morning at 6:30 am the Federal Aviation Administration's Flight Service Station located at the Ketchikan International Airport reported high winds blowing steady at 65 mph and gusting up to 85 mph. The FAA/FSS reported 5.31 inches
of rain on Wednesday, November 12th, and 4.33 inches of rain
on Thursday - a total of 9.64 inches over the 48 hour period
ending at midnight Thursday. |
Ketchikan: Water
flows across the road leading to the Ward Lake area Thursday.
- Ward Lake Photo Gallery by Chris Wilhelm...
Ketchikan: USDA Approved Cash Benefits for Alaska's Pacific Salmon Fshers - The United States Department of Agriculture approved Alaska's Pacific salmon fishers to receive cash benefits under the new Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program. Applications for this program
are currently being accepted by the Alaska Farm Service Agency
in the Ketchikan Hub office located in the Job Service Center
at 2030 Sea Level Drive, Suite 220, Ketchikan, Alaska. - Read
more... Alaska: Major
Tobacco Companies Agree to Eliminate Advertising from School
Editions of Weekly News Magazines - Attorney General Gregg
Renkes announced Thursday that the principal tobacco companies
whose advertising has appeared in Time, Newsweek,
and U.S. News and World Report have agreed to the request
by Attorneys General from throughout the country that they remove
advertising for their cigarette and smokeless tobacco brands
from copies of those magazines that are sent to schools as part
of the magazines' school programs. - Read
more... Alaska: Climate
Linked To Extinction of Alaska's Native Horses - Alaska's
native horses became extinct about 12,500 years ago. But before
they did, they shrank, says R. Dale Guthrie, Institute of Arctic
Biology researcher - a professor emeritus at the University of
Alaska Fairbanks. This suggests, he says in this week's Nature,
that climate change, not hunting, was to blame for their demise.
Guthrie radiocarbon-dated bones from the forelimbs of two Alaskan
horse species. Bones from the last days of the horses were about
12% shorter than those from the beginning of the period, about
27,000 years ago. - Read
more... |
Ketchikan: 'Bucho Is My Name'... Bucho and Noni Burno's story; Alaska and animal lovers, this book will steal your heart! - Bucho Is My Name, written by Ketchikan residents Bucho and Noni Burno, is a heartwarming story of an abandoned Golden Retriever mix dog who finds the perfect home - in Alaska. According to Noni Burno who
was born and raised in Alaska, this story will capture your heart
and the heart of any child you share it with. She said for those
that have a soft spot for Alaska and dogs, this is a great children's
book. - Read
more... Pacific Northwest: Some
large Pacific Northwest quakes could be limited in size by their
location - Large, deep earthquakes have shaken the central
Puget Sound region several times in the last century, and nerves
have been rattled even more often by less-powerful deep quakes.
New University of Washington research suggests the magnitude
of these temblors might depend on just where beneath the Earth's
surface they occur. - Read
more... World: By
the year 2050, human population could add 2.6 billion people,
reports Rockefeller scientist - It took from the beginning
of time until 1950 to put the first 2.5 billion people on the
planet. Yet in the next half-century, an increase that exceeds
the total population of the world in 1950 will occur.
- Read
more... |
According to information provided
by the Tongass Historical Society, Pat Roppel arrived in Ketchikan
on a steamer in 1959 and lived here for 25 years. Now a resident
of Wrangell, she has researched and written about nearly every
aspect of Ketchikan's rich and colorful history. Her talk, extensively
illustrated with historical photographs, reviewed the development
of Ketchikan, from its beginnings in 1887 to its current status
as Alaska's premier cruise ship port. - View
the photo gallery... |
Alaska Science: When Reindeer Paradise Turned to Purgatory by Ned Rozell - During World War II, while trying to stock a remote island in the Bering Sea with an emergency food source, the U.S. Coast Guard set in motion a classic experiment in the boom and bust of a wildlife population. The island was St. Matthew,
an unoccupied 32-mile long, four-mile wide sliver of tundra and
cliffs in the Bering Sea, more than 200 miles from the nearest
Alaska village. In 1944, the Coast Guard installed a loran (long
range aids to navigation) station on St. Matthew to help captains
of U.S. ships and aircraft pilots pinpoint their locations. The
Coast Guard stationed 19 men on St. Matthew Island to operate
the station. Those men-electrical technicians, cooks, medics,
and others-made up the entire human population of the island.
- Read
more... National: Do
You Know Where Your Seafood Comes From? - The crab used in
'Maryland' crab cakes most likely comes from Indonesia, Thailand
or Venezuela, even when they're ordered at a restaurant on the
Chesapeake Bay. Bay scallops, traditionally from New England
and a popular item on menus across the country, today are raised
primarily in China. And nearly 90 percent of all shrimp, the
number one seafood consumed in the United States, is now imported
from farms in Thailand, India, Vietnam, Ecuador and China rather
than caught wild in the Gulf of Mexico or other nearby waters.
- Read
more...
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