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Ketchikan: Colorful "Boss Beaver" front page
photo by Gigi Pilcher - Wipaire, Inc.'s colorful "Boss Beaver"
briefly stopped in Ketchikan Sunday on a promotional tour. One
side of the "Boss Beaver" is painted red, white and
blue to resemble the American flag and the other side of the
aircraft is painted to resemble the Canadian flag. - Click here for more... |
People of Ketchikan:
Water Taxi Man - Owner
and operator of Tongass Island Water Taxi Rich Schuerger helps
a customer board the Water Taxi on Sunday. Shuerger has been operating his water taxi business
since September 23, 2002 and reports that business is doing well.
- Photo essay, click here... (Photo by Gigi
Pilcher) |
People of Ketchikan: Teen Weaver' - Sixteen year old Crystal Marie
Keet Mann (Tsimshian) smiles while she is busily weaving a cedar
bark hat at the Saxman Totem carving shed. - Photo essay, click here... (Photo by
Gigi Pilcher) |
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Columnist Dick Morris: W's Triangulation - President Bush has stolen
all the Democratic issues.... Offering prescription-drug benefits
under traditional fee-for-service Medicare. Expanded education
funding. Boosting Head Start. Banning road construction in Wilderness
Areas. Providing tax credits for lower-middle-income families.
Ending racial profiling. Replacing expensive branded medicines
with cheaper generic drugs. - Click here to read more... Columnist Mike Reagan: Why The Forests Burn - Over 300 Arizona families
are victims of terrorism, made homeless not by al Qaeda's terrorists,
but instead, by our home-grown variety who masquerade under the
banner of environmentalism while committing what amounts to arson
in our nation's forests. - Click here to read more...
Sunday - June 29, 2003 Southeast: Forest Service Decision To Offer 10-year Timber
Contract In Tongass National Forest Welcomed by Sen. Murkowski
- Friday U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski welcomed a decision by the
U.S. Forest Service to work toward 10-year contracts in Southeast's
Tongass National Forest as a first step toward revitalizing a
timber industry in the region. - Click here to read more... Alaska: Settlement Reached On Penalties For Four U.S.
Fishing Vessels Crabbing In Russian Waters - The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of General
Counsel in Juneau, Alaska, has settled four separate cases against
U.S. vessels fishing for crab in Russian waters. - Click here to read more... Ketchikan: Final Game: Swarm 11, Ketchikan Merchants 1
- Ketchikan Merchants Manager & Head Coach Fred Bass
reported the last game of the Merchants first Seattle tour was
against the Triple Play Swarm, a select team out of Tacoma, Washington.
- Click here to read more...
Ketchikan: Locals receive false phone solicitations -
Ketchikan General Hospital (KGH) announced today that it
has become aware that some local residents have received bogus
phone calls claiming to be made on behalf of the hospital. -
Click here to read more... Saxman - Metlakatla - Statewide: Grants Awarded To Alaska Programs -- City
of Saxman Awarded $90,485 for RIPC Program; Metlakatla Indian
Community Awarded $122,520 for Project RAMP -- The Alaska Congressional
Delegation announced today that federal agencies have awarded
a series of funding grants to Alaska groups and communities.
The grants totaling more than $19 million were awarded to communities
around the state during the past week. - Click here to read more... Alaska: State Announces
New Alaska Senior Assistance Program; Needs-based program
begins in September & will be available for 10 months - The Alaska Department of
Health and Social Services (DHSS) on Thursday released additional
details on the new "Alaska Senior Assistance Program"
that is based solely on financial need. The new program becomes
available to all Alaskan seniors age 65 or older, who meet certain
income and asset tests, beginning this September. - Click here to read more...
Ketchikan: Ketchikan International Airport getting a facelift
- A revolving door, blue-green carpet and a new bag belt
are part of a facelift at the Ketchikan International Airport.
- Click here to read more...
Alaska: Saving Aleut: Linguist Begins Effort To Preserve
Native Alaskan Language - It's getting harder and harder
for the few remaining residents of the Aleutian and Pribilof
islands who speak Aleut to hold a conversation in the native
Alaskan language. - Click here to read more...
Alaska: USDA Purchase Of 130 Tons of Canned Salmon Announced;
Salmon For Humanitarian Mission In Cambodia - U.S. Senator
Lisa Murkowski announced on Monday that the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) will donate 130 tons of canned salmon for
use in Cambodia to the Salesian Missions, a private volunteer
organization. - Click here to read more...
Ketchikan: Sharks Take Double Bite Out of Merchants
- The Ketchikan Merchants Baseball Club traveled to Puyallup,
Washington to the land of the Sharks - the South Sound Sharks
baseball team that is - to play a double header on Thursday.
- Click here to read more... Alaska: Attorney General Issues Opinion Clarifying Permanent
Fund Accounting Procedures - Attorney General Gregg Renkes
today released an opinion clarifying that the Alaska Permanent
Fund Corporation should only consider realized investment income
in calculating the amount available for dividends and inflation-proofing.
- Click here to read more... Southeast: Missing Hyder man found - The missing boater
from Hyder, Daryl Wilks, was found by a guide boat from the Yes
Bay Lodge. - Click here to read more...
Ketchikan: Ketchikan Merchants Second Game A Tie - The
Ketchikan Merchants Baseball Club's second game played in Edmonds,
Washington against the Edmonds Rebels Wednesday evening ended
in a tie with the score 1 to 1. - Click here to read more... Columnist Dick Morris: Times Not A-Changing - Anyone who thinks
that Howell Raines' resignation will restore editorial balance
to The New York Times is in for a sad disappointment. The following
excerpt from my book, "Off with Their Heads: Traitors, Crooks
and Obstructionists in American Politics, Media and Business"
(published today), examines an incident that shows the partisan
tilt of Joseph Lelyveld, Raines' successor - and predecessor
- as the Times' executive editor. - Click here to read more... Columnist Mike Reagan: A Church in Disarray - The resignation of
Oklahoma's former Governor Frank Keating from his post as head
of the National Review Board, an all-lay panel charged with keeping
track of bishops efforts to rid the priesthood of sexual molesters
has shown that the scandal is not going away. - Click here to read more... SE Alaska: Southeast man misses brother's wedding, Coast
Guard launches intensive search for overdue man -
When a Southeast Alaska man failed to arrive at his brother's
wedding Wednesday afternoon in Edna Bay on Prince of Wales Island,
a friend reported him overdue to the Coast Guard. - Click here to read more...
Mike Reagan Column - The Endless Saga of Hillary Clinton - She's
never going to go away. Just when you think you've heard the
last of her, she pops up like the proverbial bad penny. Christ
told us that "the poor you will always have with you."
I'm afraid the same is true of Hillary Clinton - we will always
have her with us. - Click here to read more... Dick Morris Column - THE AL SHARPTON FACTOR - WILD CARD FOR '04
- Will civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton be the Ralph Nader
of 2004? Sharpton, now running for the Democratic nomination
for president knows he can't win his party's nod, but he turns
coy when he's asked if he'll run as an independent in November,
'04. "I intend to be my party's candidate," he says,
making a statement that the average six year old knows isn't
true. "The question is: Will the other candidates support
me after I win the nomination!" - Click here to read more... Front Page Photo: 'Heading South' - Friday's front page photo
by Gigi Pilcher - click here to view the photograph... Ketchikan: Ketchikan bridge project garners Young a Golden
Fleece - A Washington, D.C., watchdog group has given U.S.
Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, a Golden Fleece Award for pushing a
Ketchikan bridge project the group calls a boondoggle. - Click here to read more...
Alaska: Home and Community Based Waiver Regulations Revisited
- Thursday the Department of Health and Social Services announced
the release of proposed regulations for the Medicaid Home and
Community Based Waivers for Older Alaskans, Adults with Physical
Disabilities, Children with Complex Medical Conditions, and people
with Mentally Retardation/Developmental Disabilities, for public
comment through July 21, 2003. The HCB Waiver program provides
home care services to nearly 3,000 Alaskans receiving care at
home instead of an institutional setting such as a nursing home
or intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded. - Click here to read more... Alaska: Big Lake Pastor Indicted - The Alaska Department
of Law announced Thursday that on Wednesday, June 11, 2003, Phillip
D. Mielke, 44, of Big Lake, was indicted by the Palmer Grand
Jury in the deaths of Christopher Palmer, 31, and Francis Jones,
23. - Click here to read more...
Alaska: Gov. Murkowski Signs Historic, Lower Budget;
Makes Significant Cuts To Budget Bills Passed By Legislature
- Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski today signed into law
operating and capital appropriation bills for the coming fiscal
year that will spend $198 million less in general fund dollars
than the state spent for FY03. The budget marks the first time
in state history that the new fiscal year budget is less than
the previous year's, and the first time in many years that a
Governor has made significant cuts to the budget bills passed
by the Legislature. -- Murkowski sent a letter to municipalities
earlier this week, explaining his decision to no longer fund
municipal revenue sharing programs. Another letter today went
out to seniors explaining that the longevity bonus would end.
- Click here to read more... Alaska: Gulf of Alaska
Bottom Trawl Survey Expected To End Early Aug. in Ketchikan -
Three vessels chartered by NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science
Center have begun more than two months of scientific bottom trawl
surveys in the Gulf of Alaska, continuing data-gathering that
has gone on every two or three years since 1984. These data are
used to help determine future management decisions regarding
fishing activities in the Gulf of Alaska according to a NOAA
news release. - Click here to read more... Ketchikan: Coast Guard Cutter Changes Command - A Coast
Guard change of command ceremony took place in Ketchikan Tuesday
morning aboard the 110-foot patrol boat Naushon. - Click here to read more... Alaska: AK Attorney General Joins In Seeking Supreme
Court Review of Pledge of Allegiance Case - Alaska
Attorney General Gregg Renkes on Wednesday joined 49 other state
attorney generals in urging the United States Supreme Court to
review the Pledge of Allegiance case. "The court's ruling
is clearly wrong and once again shows that the Ninth Circuit
continues to be out-of-touch with the rest of the country,"
said Attorney General Renkes. - Click here to read more...
Alaska: U.S. DOE Approves Alaska's No Child Left Behind
Accountability Plan - At a White House ceremony Tuesday,
President George W. Bush announced that the U.S. Department of
Education has approved Alaska's No Child Left Behind accountability
plan. The state outlined specific steps for ensuring yearly progress
in reading and math achievement for public school students -
the cornerstone of the No Child Left Behind Act - and has now
been given the green light to proceed. All 50 states, the District
of Columbia and Puerto Rico were required to submit accountability
plans and each one has now been approved by the U.S. Department
of Education. - Click here to read more... Writer's Corner - AK Tales:
The Taming of Tom - Another true Alaska story... by George Miller
- One camp I was in for two seasons was a small construction
camp. Our task was to produce roads for the larger logging camp
about two miles down the bay. I cut trees for the road right-of-way,
then came back and blasted out the larger stumps to ease the
work of pioneering the roads. We did not have our own plane float
or dock, but used the one at the larger camp to receive our supplies
and fly in or out of camp. - Click here to read the rest of this story...
Alaska: AK and Federal Gov't. Reach Settlement in Roadless
Rule Lawsuit - Governor Frank Murkowski and Alaska Attorney
General Gregg Renkes were advised on Monday by the US Forest
Service of a settlement of the state's Roadless Rule lawsuit
against the federal government. The settlement would return approximately
300,000 acres of Southeast Alaska forestland that was intended
to be available for timber harvest under the 1997 Tongass Land
Management Plan (TLMP). .... The Alaska Forest Association, Chugach
Alaska Corporation, the City of Wrangell, the Ketchikan Gateway
Borough, and two individuals joined the suit as plaintiff-intervenors.
A group of eight conservation organizations, represented by Earthjustice
and the Natural Resources Defense Council, intervened as defendants.
- Click here to read more... Ketchikan: Empire Airlines To base Aircraft At Airport For
Summer - According to a news release from David Allen the
Director of Transportation at the Ketchikan Airport, Empire Airlines
of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, will be basing an aircraft at Ketchikan
International Airport from June 2 through September 19, 2003.
The aircraft will make one daily flight Monday through Friday,
remaining at the airport overnight and on weekends. - Click here to read more...
Ketchikan: Mike Harpold's
Soapbox - A MATTER OF PRIORITIES - At the height of
the Viet Nam war, 1968 to 1970, I lived and worked for the U.S.
government in a series of small towns in rural South Viet Nam.
Each morning, and each afternoon, the sides of the roads were
clogged by Vietnamese children trudging to and from school. The
boys wore blue shorts, white shirts and plastic sun helmets.
The girls wore white dresses and white bonnets. Each carried
a plastic book bag that, given the small size of the child, assumed
the proportions of a suitcase. - Click here to read more... Dick Morris Column - President Puts Tax Cuts On '04 Agenda - As
he desperately tried to head off Bill Clinton in 1992, President
George H.W. Bush could not use his best weapon - the tax issue
- to defend his incumbency. Although Clinton's record of tax
increases in Arkansas offered an attractive target, Bush's reversal
of his 1988 campaign pledge - "read my lips - no new taxes"
- left him unable to make the likelihood of a Clinton tax increase
the key issue in the campaign. His failure to do so cost him
the presidency. - Click here to read more...
National: America's Teachers - Don't Make Us Scapegoats
-- Passionate about their profession, but unnerved
and angered by expectations they consider unrealistic. At the
mercy of administrators they don't trust, students who won't
try and parents who just don't care. New national survey released
today reveals solid support for unions and little appetite for
tenure reform--but some openness to merit pay and alternative
teacher certification. - Click here to read more... Mike Reagan Column: Road Map Could Cost U.S. Our Best Friend and
Ally - "Israel must vanish, Muslims say"
blared a headline in the June 3, edition of International Herald
Tribune. -- And if my fears are justified, that's where the so-called
"Road Map," to peace could lead us. - Click here to read more...
Southeast: Kennicott delayed
after hitting bottom -
The ferry Kennicott
hit a rock in Wrangell Narrows early Tuesday morning and will
be out of service until the damage is repaired. -- The ferry
will be taken to Alaska Ship and Drydock in Ketchikan
for repairs. The boat was expected to leave for Ketchikan early
Wednesday morning... Click here to read more... Ketchikan: Tongass Announces Stewardship Contracting Public
Meetings - Forest Supervisor Tom Puchlerz announced
on Monday that public meetings will be held in Ketchikan and
Craig to introduce communities to a new forest management tool
a tool that gives local communities more say in how National
Forest System lands will be managed in and around their communities.
Interested people and organizations are invited to participate
in the meetings to be held at the Ted Ferry Civic Center in Ketchikan,
Thursday, June 11, from 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm, and again in Craig
at the Craig Community Center, Friday, June 12, from 8:30 am
to noon. - Click here to read more...
Ketchikan: AIDEA considers retaining shipyard ownership
- The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority
is considering retaining ownership of the Ketchikan Shipyard
instead of selling the facility to local governments. - Click here to read more... Ketchikan: Wayward pelican makes Ketchikan home -
A wayward brown pelican has taken up residence here, wowing
fishermen with its spectacular plunge-diving fishing skills.
- Click here to read more... Flora's Health: Jan's Story by Jan Lively - This article
by my friend, Jan Lively, is a reprint from the current Chi-Lel
Qigong Newsletter. It is an amazing testament to the healing
power of chi, the life-force energy. In publishing it in Sitnews,
I hope it brings encouragement and hope to those in need that
they do not have to be victims of their disease or debilitation.
It is used with her permission. -- Joann Flora - Click here to read more... Ketchikan: Ketchikan borough wants state grant to buy cannery
- The Ketchikan Gateway Borough is applying for a $5 million
state grant to buy the Wards Cove Cannery. - Click here to read more... Ketchikan: No One Injured
In Ferry Blaze - Fire started in second generator on Columbia - More than 165 passengers
and crew of the state ferry Columbia awoke to news of a fire
on board early Wednesday, said U.S. Coast Guard officials. - Click here to read more... Mike Reagan: Who Says We Don't Need a Tax Cut? - Americans
are overtaxed, not only at the federal level but also at the
state and local levels. ...When anyone mentions taxes, we automatically
think of income taxes, but that's only a drop in the bucket.
We pay taxes on just about everything we buy or do, day in and
day out. - Click here to read more... Dick Morris: A Book About Clinton's Wasted Second Term
- A second term is a terrible thing for a president to waste.
Sidney Blumenthal's new book makes clear how totally Bill Clinton
wasted it. He was a one-term president who lived in the White
House for eight years. - Click here to read more... Ketchikan: Hospital Announces Health Care Scholarship
- Ketchikan General Hospital (KGH) announces the Joseph A. Shields
Jr. Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is designed specifically
to assist students pursuing careers in health care. To be eligible,
the student must have a high school diploma and have graduated
at least two years prior to applying; and be enrolled in or accepted
to a health care program of study. - Click here to read more... Ketchikan: KGH Implements Tobacco Free Campus - On May
1, 2003, PeaceHealth Ketchikan General Hospital (KGH) began a
yearlong process of implementing a tobacco-free campus. The intent
is for the entire hospital and grounds to be smoke-free by National
Hospital Week in May 2004. - Click here to read more...
Alaska: Murkowski
Says Alaskans Will Benefit Greatly From Tax Bill - U.S. Sen.
Lisa Murkowski welcomed final passage of President George Bush's
major economic stimulus bill on Friday saying it will help both
the nation's and Alaska's economy. - Click
here to read more...
Ketchikan: UAS Ketchikan Announces Honors List - Several
University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan campus students have
made the Chancellor's and Dean's list for the Spring 2003 Semester.
- Click here to read more...
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