TRUCK FIRE – Firefighters knock down a fire in a Ford Explorer truck in Arrowhead Trailer Park in the 1200 block of Sawmill Creek Road Saturday evening. One person received fire-related injuries and was taken to the hospital, Sitka Fire Department Chief Craig Warren said, and the truck was considered a total loss. The cause of the fire is under investigation, Warren said. The fire hall received the call about the fire at 5:33 p.m., and one fire engine with eight firefighters and an ambulance were dispatched, he said. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)

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April 21, 2017 Community Happenings

Network Seeks

Volunteers For

Garden Work

 

The Sitka Local Foods Network is creating a pool of volunteers to help get the St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm communal garden and satellite gardens ready to grow food for the summer.

The farm, located behind St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 601 Lincoln St., is where most of the produce sold at the Sitka Farmers Markets during the summer is grown. St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm is recognized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture People’s Garden program. The People’s Garden works across USDA and with partners to start and sustain school gardens, community gardens, urban farms and small-scale agriculture projects in rural and urban areas with the mission of growing healthy food, people and communities.

Those who want to help prepare the garden for planting, amend soil, clean up the garden, and plant seeds can call the farm’s lead gardener, Laura Schmidt, at 738-7009. During the spring, Laura usually is working in the garden most week days, and she’s looking for a couple of assistants each day instead of hosting a big work party on the weekends.

 

 

Toxins Found In

SE Butter Clams

 

Recent butter clam samples collected from south end of Zarembo Island near Wrangell have elevated levels of paralytic shellfish toxins above the FDA regulatory limit, Sitka Tribe of Alaska Environmental Research Lab warns.

It recommends against the harvest of molluscan shellfish from this site until further notice. All samples are analyzed by the STA lab.

 

 

March to Note

Climate Change

 

All are invited to join the People’s Climate March 2 p.m. Saturday, April 29, in conjunction with marches in Washington, D.C., and other cities nationally and internationally.

Marchers will gather at the Crescent Harbor shelter, walk down and around St. Michael’s Cathedral, and back to St. Peter’s See House for refreshments and information on local and national climate initiatives.

For more information, visit peoplesclimate.org or call Carolyn at 738-7671.

 

 

Fishermen Offered

Free Workshop

 

The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association will offer a 10-hour Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor workshop 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, at the Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association, 1308 Sawmill Creek Road.

At the workshop, commercial fishermen and other mariners can get hands-on training with marine safety equipment and learn best practices for surviving emergencies at sea. Instructor Rick Petersen will cover cold-water survival skills; EPIRBs, flares, and maydays; man-overboard recovery and firefighting; immersion suits and PFDs, helicopter rescue, life rafts, abandon ship procedures, and emergency drills.

AMSEA’s Drill Conductor workshops meet the U.S. Coast Guard training requirements for Drill Conductors on documented commercial fishing vessels operating beyond the federal boundary line. The workshop is offered to commercial fishermen at no cost, thanks to support from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community & Economic Development, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health. The cost is $175 for all others. Mariners may register online at www.amsea.org or call (907) 747-3287.

 

 

UAS Panel Meets

The University of Alaska Southeast Sitka Campus will hold the spring Advisory Council meeting Thursday, April 27, at the campus in room 229 from noon to 1 p.m. UAS is inviting the general public to attend.

 

 

Unitarians Meet

This Sunday’s Unitarian program will be “The New Sanctuary Movement in the U.S.: Grassroots Efforts to Help Refugees Fleeing War Zones,” presented by Kerry MacLane.

Fellowship begins at 10:30 a.m. with the program beginning at 10:45. A lunch of soup and bread will follow the program at noon.

The Fellowship Hall is at 408 Marine St., with parking off Spruce Street.

 

 

Reading Buddy

Program Opens

 

Sitka Public Library is launching the summer reading buddy program,for children entering second and third grades in the fall.

Reading Buddies will meet at the library in weekly one-hour sessions, at a time determined by the buddies and library hours,  from June 10 to Aug. 12. Time off will be given for vacations and other events. The buddies will be matched depending on availability of adult volunteers.

 Application forms, available at the library,are due on Friday, May 19. For more information call the library at 747-4022.

  

 

Library’s Teen

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 Sitka Public Library’s Teen Advisory Board will meet 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 5, at the library. Teens age 12 and up are invited to join the board. Members will share ideas about the upcoming summer library program, and the youth collection.

 Free books, snacks and pizza are included.

 For more information, call the Library at 747-8708

 

 

Day of Prayer

Planned May 4

 

The 66th annual observance of the National Day of Prayer will be held 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 4, at Centennial Hall. All faiths are invited to join others in prayer and observation of the day, especially praying for the nation and its leaders.

Sitkans are encouraged to keep church doors open all day for those who wish to pray to come and go, said an organizer.

 

 

UAS to Screen

Documentary On

Sexual Assault

 

UAS Sitka Campus will offer a free, public screening of the documentary film “Audrie & Daisy” on Wednesday, April 26, beginning at 6 p.m in Room 229 at UAS Sitka. This documentary is an honest look at the culture of sexual assault in high school and the increasing role that social media plays in magnifying the crime, said one of those organizing the showing.

Filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk will host a Q&A session with the audience, Live via Google Hangouts, immediately following the screening. 

This showing is a collaboration between UAS Title III Grant, Sitkans Against Family Violence, and Alaska Network on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault, in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

 

 

 

 

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20 YEARS AGO

March 2004

Businesses using the Centennial Hall parking lot testified Tuesday against a proposal to charge them rent in addition to the $200 annual permit fee. City Administrator Hugh Bevan made the proposal in response to the Assembly’s direction to Centennial Hall manager Don Kluting to try to close the $340,000 gap between building revenues and operational costs.


50 YEARS AGO

March 1974

Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand President William S. Paul Sr. will be special guest and speaker at the local ANB, Alaska Native Sisterhood Founders Day program Monday at the ANB Hall.

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