Kanayama...
Ketchikan's Sister City
Several Kanayama elementary school
children and Dan Patton, the 2004-2005 Ketchikan-Kanayama exchange
English teacher, performing on the Japanese Tiako drums. - Photograph
courtesy Dan Patton...
Ketchikan: Kanayama...
Ketchikan's Sister City by Daniel Patton - In 1986, through
the work of many forward-thinking politicians and educators on
both sides of the Pacific, Ketchikan and Kanayama, Japan began
a sister city relationship. Since then, over 500 middle school students,
36 teachers, several political delegations and cultural emissaries
(Alaska Native dancers, Japanese Taiko drummers, Japanese flower
arrangers) have made the 9,000 mile journey across the North
Pacific to participate in cultural and educational enrichment.
This remarkably successful sister city arrangement is one of
the longest running Japanese-American exchange programs in either
nation. - More...
Tuesday - November 02, 2004
National: Full
transcript of bin Laden's video-taped message - The following
is a translated full transcript of Osama bin Laden's video-taped
message aired on the Al-Jazeera satellite television network,
as provided by the U.S. government. - More...
Tuesday - November 02, 2004
Alaska: Mass
Vaccination Exercise A Success - By 9:30 a.m. on October
30 a line was forming in the cold and wind outside the doors
of the Kodiak High School auditorium. When the doors were opened
at 10:00 a.m. a steady stream of people flowed through the auditorium.
Some received flu shots, some only a smile and a "thank
you." All left knowing they had helped Kodiak prepare for
the possibility of a public health emergency. - More...
Tuesday - November 02, 2004
Ketchikan: Coast
Guard boat crew rescues the rescuer - A Coast Guard
boat crew provided a tow for a fishing vessel whose captain rescued
two men from the water two miles south of Bold Island in Southeast
Alaska Sunday.
The Coast Guard received a
call at about 3:30 p.m. from a crewmember aboard the fishing
vessel Blue Fin who reported his boat capsized. Sam Elliott
and Don Munhoven Jr. of Ketchikan, equipped with life vests,
clung to the overturned vessel while waiting for assistance.
The Coast Guard issued an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast
(UMIB) and launched an Air Station Sitka Jayhawk helicopter crew
and a Station Ketchikan 47-foot motor life boat crew to the scene.
- More...
Tuesday - November 02, 2004
Alaska: When
Internet Scam Artists Go "Phishing," Don't Take the
Bait - The Alaska Division of Banking and Securities is urging
consumers to be more aware of "phishing scams" - as
in fishing for confidential information. These are a new types
of Internet scams where operators posing as legitimate businesses
seek to get consumer information, such as account numbers, passwords,
and personal identification numbers (PINS) - leading to both
credit card and identity theft. - More...
Tuesday - November 02, 2004
Alaska: 600
Alaskans from distressed fisheries take advantage of career retraining
- More than 600 Alaskans displaced because of competition from
foreign farmed salmon have so far taken advantage of career retraining
made possible through a Commercial Salmon Fisheries Assistance
program and an $8 million National Emergency Grant. - More...
Tuesday - November 02, 2004
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