DEFINITION OF LEARNING – Retiring Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School teacher Matthew Burrows helps hand out dictionaries to kids this morning in the school multipurpose room. In front, Elias Pfeiffer, 9, left, and Haley Jones, nearly 9, look through their dictionaries to find answers to questions posed to them on index cards. The Sitka Rotary Club annually provides the dictionaries to all third graders. Rotarian Shannon Haugland, who helps organize the effort, pointed out that besides providing definitions, the dictionaries also have maps, sign language letters and other information. (Sentinel Photo)
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January 19, 2017 Police Blotter
The following calls were received by Sitka police by 8 a.m. today:
Jan. 18
A resident said a caller claiming to be from Publishers Clearing House told him if he didn’t give his credit card number someone would be sent to kill him. Police advised the resident to report the incident to ic3.gov.
A Lake Street resident said someone tried to rip his license plate off his car.
A caller asked police to check on a client who had made an unusual statement. The client told officers he wanted to talk to his clinician about getting medication but declined to go to the ER. Police called his mother, who said she was aware of the situation.
A caller reported damage to Moller Field, possibly from a fire.
A resident said a caller claiming to be from Nationwide Collections asked for money and fees. She was advised to report the call to ic3.gov.
A resident said his landlord told him to report that someone entered a Burkhart Street home at 11 a.m.
A resident said someone stole binoculars out of his vehicle while he was at work. No location was given.
At 6:40 p.m. people were reported using drugs in a Crescent Harbor parking lot. Police found nothing amiss.
Police checked on two vehicles at 10:36 p.m. and found the owners were looking for their missing dog, in the 100 block of Smith Street. The dog was found in the 1300 block of SMC.
Jan. 19
A power outage was reported at 2:49 a.m. and Lake Street residents heard the Sitka High generator kicking on. (See story, Page 1.)
Emergency Calls
Sitka Fire Department dispatched ambulances at 9:05 a.m. and 6:35 p.m. Wednesday. At 3:15 a.m. today the fire truck was sent to 339 Katlian Street after a sprinkler alarm went off, possibly due to a power outage, the fire chief said. There was no fire.
In Court
Eric S. Morisky, 29, was sentenced to 360 days, with 300 suspended, for attempted misconduct involving a controlled substance in the fourth degree, and 360 days, with 330 suspended for tampering with evidence. He is to pay restitution and his drugs and paraphernalia are forfeited. He is to receive treatment and will be on probation for a year. A charge of theft in the fourth degree was dismissed.
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The Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter took two people with heart attack symptoms Wednesday from Skagway to Juneau for treatment.
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May 2004
A measure raising property taxes to fund capital expense at Sitka Community Hospital failed, 1,053 to 1,248 in the May 4 special city election.
50 YEARS AGO
May 1974
From Sitka 20 Years Ago, 1954: Worry over the condition of Vern “Porky” McGraw for his forthcoming heavyweight championship bout with Harry “The Man” Bartels was dispelled today by his manager, Clem “Mighty” Pace, when he told of the amount of exercise Porky is getting.
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