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Friday
November 28, 2003
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Pictured: Superior Court Judge Trevor Stephens and KYC Graduates: Sami Mills; Jonathan G. Makua; Lan Sivertsen; Elizabeth Graham; Courtney Enright; Aimee Millendez; Kanoe Thomas; and Katherine Hargett - Photo courtesy Gretchen Klein Ketchikan: KYC
Holds 8th Graduation Ceremony - The Ketchikan Youth Court
held it's 8th graduation ceremony on Friday, November 21, 2003
at the State Office Building. Eight students who successfully
completed the Youth Court Fall Class 2003 and who successfully
passed the youth bar exam met the requirements to be sworn in
as Youth Court members. - Read
more... Ketchikan: Six
Locals Honored by Ketchikan Youth Court - Gretchen Klein.
Ketchikan Youth Court Program Coordinator announced that the
Ketchikan Youth Court recently held the Ketchikan Youth Courts'
2nd annual awards banquet. Klein said, "There were six awards
given out to youth court members, business donators, and adult
volunteers." Klein said awards were presented for serving
more than 200 hours of service or donating over $5,000.00 to
the program over the years. - Read
more...
The lights on the president's
plane were off as it landed in darkness at about 5:30 p.m. local
time Baghdad, to minimize chances of it being targeted. - Read
more... Alaska: Alaskans
Invited to Attend Governor's Open House - Alaska
Governor Frank Murkowski and First Lady Nancy Murkowski announced
Wednesday that the 90 year-old tradition of the annual holiday
open house at the Governor's Mansion in Juneau will be held on
December 3, 2003. More than three hundred guests attended the
first open house in 1913, and more than 3,000 have attended in
recent years. - Read
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Ketchikan: "Dumpers"
Busy Dropping Off Early Christmas Presents for Borough Residents
- Jerry Cegelske, Code Enforcement Officer for the Ketchikan
Gateway Borough said, "Dumpers have been busy giving early
Christmas presents to Borough residents in the weeks before Thanksgiving.
They are trying to please everybody by dropping gifts off from
one end of the road system to the other." But, according
to Cegelske, unfortunately the citizens of Ketchikan will be
the ones who pay for these gifts of trash left by these irresponsible
"dumpers". - Read
more... Mike Reagan Columnist: It Really Is The Economy, Stupid - Note to the 10 Demodwarfs now running for president: Get off your knees, boys, God isn't going to answer your prayers for a rip-roaring recession. The good times are rolling. And the way it looks now, they
are going to keep rolling - that is unless one of you by some
miracle gets elected and keeps his promise to repeal the Bush
tax cuts, thereby sending the economy into a tailspin. - Read
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Alaska: State
Seeks to Intervene in Bristol Bay Price Fixing Case at Request
of Governor - At the request of the Governor, Attorney General
Gregg Renkes filed a motion Wednesday to intervene in the case
of Louie Alakayak v. All Alaskan Seafoods, Inc., known
as the Bristol Bay price fixing case. The motion asks the court
to let the State of Alaska participate in all proceedings to
determine the amount of attorney's fees to be paid from a $40
million settlement fund created when plaintiffs settled with
several defendants before trial. - Read
more... Alaska: Nautilus
Foods Fined for Violating Alaska's Seafood Processing Laws - A
Valdez seafood processing company was sentenced November 18th
to pay $8,000 in fines after being convicted of violating the
state's seafood processing laws, the Alaska Department of Environmental
Conservation (DEC) announced Wednesday. Tom Waterer admitted
that his company, Waterkist Corporation (doing business as Nautilus
Foods) had processed seafood without the Department's approval.
The company was placed on probation for one year from the day
of sentence. - Read
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Science: Geologists Discover New Class of Spreading Ridge on Sea Bottom - Scientists have discovered a new "ultra-slow" class of ocean ridge involved in seafloor spreading. Investigations in the remote regions of the planet-in the far south Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the sea floor beneath the Arctic icecap-found that for large regions there, the sea floor splits apart by pulling up solid rock from deep within the earth. These rocks, known as peridotites (after the gemstone peridot) come from the deep layer of the earth known as the mantle. Known ocean ridges, like the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East Pacific Rise, include regularly
spaced volcanoes that continuously create a layer of crust on
the seafloor. Mantle rocks are only rarely found along these
volcanic ridges. Along the new class of ocean ridges, however,
volcanoes occur only at widely spaced intervals and contain more
sodium and potassium, among other chemical elements, than do
typical mid-ocean ridge lavas. - Read
more...
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