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Wednesday
December 10, 2003
An Annual Tradition Eighty-two Ketchikan Theatre Ballet Students Featured
Bryan Williams was this year's "Prince". Williams currently lives in Chicago where he dances with Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Company. He is the Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Company's youngest member ever at the age of 19. The Ketchikan Theatre Ballet hired the "Prince" because KTB did not currently have any male dancers of the right age to perform the part. The Ketchikan Theatre Ballet,
started by Virginia Klepser, has been in business for over 40
years and is the oldest dance studio in the state of Alaska.
In the late 1960's Klepser sold the dance studio to a board of
directors and it became a non-profit organization known as the
Ketchikan Theatre Ballet. - Read
more and view the photo gallery... Alaska: Commissioner says no cuts for elderly;
Governor plans to keep paying $120/month to low-income seniors,
according to Gilbertson
- State Health and Social Services Commissioner Joel Gilbertson
reassured Ketchikan residents that the Murkowski administration
is not planning budget cuts for the elderly. - Read
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Ketchikan: Those attending the "Nutcracker"
were the recipients of a magnificent and enchanting performance.
"Nutcracker", an annual tradition, featured eighty-two
Ketchikan Theatre Ballet students ages 8 to 18 and nineteen "guys"
- everyone one from "Fritz" to "Drosselmeyer".
Over 100 volunteers helped out before the performances and backstage.
"Nutcracker" was performed Friday and Saturday evening
at Ketchikan High School Auditorium.
"We are looking to find
out what we can do better to make Alaska's oil and gas province
more attractive for investment of your exploration dollars,"
Murkowski said. "During the last session of the legislature,
we embarked on a process to help make Alaska more competitive,
through enhanced exploration incentives, and streamlining and
reform of the permitting process, for example. We are willing
to do more. This is not business as usual anymore." - Read
more... National: 10 Reasons Why Many Seniors Won't Like Medicare Reforms - Once they take a closer look, senior citizens probably will find changes to Medicare signed into law on Dec. 8 are no panacea, says a Saint Louis University professor who has studied healthcare reform for about a dozen years. "If the elderly voters
focus on the deficiencies in the bill, they won't consider it
to be much of a step forward," says Timothy McBride, Ph.D.,
professor of health management and policy at Saint Louis University
School of Public Health. -
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Why Gore's Backing Dean - It's payback time for Al Gore. Dissatisfied at how thoroughly forgotten he is among active Democrats and resentful of all the attention Sen. Hillary Clinton, his White House rival, is getting, Al has reportedly decided to flank the Clintons by backing Howard Dean for president. Forget the November election. The fight we are witnessing is a battle for control of the Democratic Party. In one corner stand the Clintons, sending contender after contender out to center ring in an effort to stop Dean from taking over their party. First Joe Lieberman came limping back. Then Wesley Clark ran away from the early primaries and forfeited the match. And now John Kerry is so far behind in New Hampshire that he is down for the count. In the other corner is Dean,
backed by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and now Gore, battling to take
the party away from Hillary and craft a new Democratic left.
Rejecting Clintonian, Democratic Leadership Council-style moderation,
Dean and Gore are letting their liberalism hang out as they garner
popularity on the left. -
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more...
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