FIFTH OPENING – The Sitka seine boats Hukilau and Rose Lee pump herring aboard this afternoon at the end of Deep Inlet during the fifth opening in the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery. The opening was being held in two locations beginning at 11 a.m. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson) 

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December 6, 2016 Community Happenings

Holiday Brass

Concert Dec. 21

Sitka Fine Arts Camp will present the 13th Annual Holiday Brass Concert, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21, at the Sitka Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available now at Old Harbor Books. For more information call 747-3085.

 

Chamber to Hear

From Director

Chamber of Commerce executive director Rachel Roy will speak on the Chamber’s branding, noon Wednesday, Dec. 7, at Westmark Sitka.

The luncheon meeting is open to the public. Chamber members receive  member-only pricing.

 

Land Trust Sets

Meeting Dec. 8

Sitka Community Land Trust will meet 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, at Centennial Hall. The trust is a community-supported non-profit working to establish permanently affordable housing in Sitka. The public is welcome to attend. For more information call 738-2888 or go to sitkaclt.org.

 

American Legion

Plans Bake Sale

American Legion members will hold a bake sale 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, in the Wells Fargo bank lobby to raise funds for its annual children’s Christmas party.

Sign-up sheets for children  – infants through age 12 – are now available at the club, at 205 Lincoln St. 

 

Lutherans Offer

Advent Concert

On Kessler Organ

Karen Bretz will play a one-hour concert of seasonal Advent music at the historic 1844 Kessler organ at Sitka Lutheran Church, noon Friday, Dec. 9.

Bretz is the organist at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Anchorage.

Advent is the church’s time of preparing for Christ’s birth.  The concert will focus on this reflective theme and include Advent hymns such as “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming” and “In the Bleak Midwinter.”  Bretz will also play a characteristic French Christmas noël and a chorale fantasia by Dietrich Buxtehude that tells the Christmas story in music.  

In the Lutheran organ concert tradition, the audience will be asked to sing, accompanied by organ. To be sung is a German hymn called “By Gracious Powers So Wonderfully Sheltered.”  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi martyr, wrote the text.

The Kessler organ was manufactured in Estonia in 1844 and shipped to Sitka in 1846. It’s a five-stop tracker organ with a single manual and no pedal board, and is likely the oldest existing pipe organ west of the Mississippi River. 

The concert is free and all are welcome. Bretz can be contacted at 351-6591 or kbretz@alaska.net.

 

STA Posts Meeting

Sitka Tribe of Alaska Tribal Council Action Only meeting scheduled Dec. 7 has been canceled, but the STA Tribal Council’s regular meeting will be 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, at the Sheet-ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi.

Those wishing to give a presentation or speak before the Tribal Council need to contact Anne Davis at 747-7352.

 

Women’s Book

Group to Meet

Women’s Book Group will meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, at the Pioneers Home chapel to discuss ‘‘The Story of My Teeth’’ by Valeria Luiselli. All women are encouraged to participate.

Those with questions may call Dorothy at 747-3412.

 

Call-In On

Raven Radio will host a live call-in show 10-11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 12, with City Administrator Mark Gorman and utility director Bryan Bertacchi. They’ll take questions and discuss city finances, electric rates, and long-term plans. Questions may be E-mailed to news@kcaw.org or call 747-5879.

 

Emblem Club

Lists Meeting

 

Sitka Emblem Club will hold a combined social and business meeting 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8 at the Elks Lodge. Initiation of new members will also be held.

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20 YEARS AGO

March 2004

Matthew C. Hunter of Sitka recently returned from Cuba as part of a St. Olaf College International and Off-Campus Studies program. Hunter, a junior physics major at St. Olaf College, is the son of Robert and Kim Hunter of Sitka.


50 YEARS AGO

March 1974

Eighth graders have returned from a visit to Juneau to see the Legislature. They had worked for it since Christmas vacation ... Clarice Johnson’s idea of a “White Elephant” sales was chosen as the best money-maker; Joe Roth won the political cartoon assignment; highest government test scorers were Ken Armstrong, Joanna Hearn, Linda Montgomery, Lisa Henry, Calvin Taylor and David Licari .....

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