DIVE PRACTICUM – Dive student Karson Winslow hands a discarded garden hose to SCUBA instructor Haleigh Damron, standing on the dock, at Crescent Harbor this afternoon. The University of Alaska Southeast Sitka Campus Dive Team is clearing trash from the harbor floor under floats 5, 6 and 7 as part of their instruction. Fourteen student divers are taking part this year. This is the fifth year the dive team has volunteered to clean up Sitka harbors. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
August 11, 2017, Community Happenings
School District
Registration Set
Sitka High School registration days have been scheduled.
New students and their families can stop by the Sitka High School front office to begin their registration process. Registration information will be provided, and a list of required paperwork will be given. Registration information and required paperwork is on the SHS website under Students/Counseling. New students should contact the counseling department, Cori Schumejda (L-Z) at 966-1925 and Ben Cordero (A-K) at 966-1927.
New freshmen, previously enrolled and returning students to Sitka High School may register on the following days with no appointment needed: 9 a.m.-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m.; 11th and 12th grades, Monday, Aug. 15; and ninth and 10th grades, Tuesday, Aug. 16.
Sitka High School students whose return to school will be delayed beyond the first day of school, Aug. 24, should notify the Sitka High School office at 966-1901 about their anticipated date of arrival.
Pacific High will offer registrations for new and returning students weekdays. Student and family conferences will be the first two days of school, Aug. 24-25. Returning students will be contacted in August to schedule appointments; new students can stop by any time to pick up a registration packet.
New students in kindergarten through eighth grades may register at their respective schools from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m.
Marine Highway
Releases Schedule
The Alaska Marine Highway System released its 2017-18 winter schedule. Reservations are now available for booking at FerryAlaska.com, by calling 1-800-642-0066, or visiting ferry terminal staff throughout the system.
The winter schedule covers ferry travel from Oct. 1, 2017, to April 30, 2018. Fare information is available at FerryAlaska.com or from reservations agents.
National Park
Walks, Talks Set
Sitka National Historical Park offers daily guided programs connecting visitors to the park’s natural and cultural resources.
Visitor Center Ranger programs cover numerous topics that vary throughout the day including: totemic art, sea otters, salmon and the Battle of 1804. Programs last approximately 15 minutes and take place on the seaside porch at the visitor center on the hour and half hour.
The Russian-American History Downtown Walking Tour leaves from the Russian Bishop’s House. All other ranger-led tours meet at the Sitka NHP visitor center on Lincoln Street.
Ranger-guided scheduled programs this week are:
Sunday, Aug. 13: 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.. and 1-2 p.m. visitor center Ranger programs.
Monday, Aug. 14: 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. visitor center Ranger programs.
Tuesday, Aug. 15: 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. visitor center Ranger programs
Wednesday, Aug. 16: 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. visitor center Ranger programs; 11 a.m.-noon Russian-American History Downtown Walking Tour; and 1-2:30 p.m. visitor center Ranger programs.
Thursday, Aug. 17: 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. visitor center Ranger programs.
Friday, Aug. 18: 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. and 1-2:30 p.m. visitor center Ranger programs.
Saturday, Aug. 19: 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. and 1-2:30 p.m. visitor center Ranger programs.
For more information about the ranger-guided tours at Sitka NHP, call the visitor center at 747-0110.
Harp Sing Set
The second Sunday Sitka Harp Sing will be 3:30-5 p.m. Aug. 13 at the Pioneers Home Chapel. Beginners and listeners are welcome. Call 738-2089 with questions.
Seafood Festival
Events Saturday
At Crescent Harbor
The Sitka Seafood Festival’s main day is 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, at Crescent Harbor Shelter.
The event will feature a beer garden, food vendors, games and fishing tote races.
Food from Ashmo’s, Latitude 57, Reindeer Red Hots and other vendors will be available for purchase and the Sitka Tribe of Alaska will sponsor kids’ games.
Sign up for the fishing tote race and “wild fishermen triathlon” will be on Saturday. The festival will provide the totes.
The schedule at Crescent Harbor will be: 9 a.m. knot-tying class; 10 a.m.-1 p.m., kids games; 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sitka Farmers Market (ANB Founders Hall); 11 a.m.-4 p.m. vendor and food market; noon-1 p.m. historical dock walk (meet at Sitka Maritime Heritage Society booth at Crescent Harbor); noon-7 p.m. beer garden; 1 p.m. tote races and adult games; 2-3 p.m. Inupiaq mask carver Katherine Gingrich (Sheldon Jackson Museum); and 3 p.m. Wild Fishermen’s Triathlon.
For more information go to the website SitkaSeafoodFestival.com or call 747-3400.
Reception Aug. 18
To Meet Candidates
A community reception to meet the municipal administrator candidates will 4:30-6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18, at Harrigan Centennial Hall. Candidates are P. Keith Brady, David Fuqua, Delray ‘‘Lucky’’ Shultz and Kim Zimmerman.
Interviews will be Saturday, Aug. 19, at Centennial Hall.
‘Ranch Hand’
Photo Display
By Steve Stortz
Photographs by Steve Stortz are being featured at Ludvig’s Wine Bar beginning today. His photos show perspectives of a ranch hand working in Colorado and Wyoming.
Stortz first came to Sitka in 1995 to visit his brother, William Stortz. He came as often as work and raising kids allowed.
Stortz received his bachelor of arts degree in art in 1972 from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. He then moved to Breckinridge, Colorado, in 1977. Around that time, Stortz began to ranch-hand on the Lazy Shamrock ranch south of Kremmling, Colo., the Snowy Range ranch in Wyoming, and the Rafter Y Ranch, located just north of Mack, Colo.
After many years, Stortz returned to western Colorado to live with his wife Jeanne where he seasonally helps with the spring and fall gathers and branding for the Rafter Y, the Lazy Shamrock and the Snowy Range ranch.
‘‘I’m always looking for the ‘shot,’ quite unconsciously l might say,’’ Stortz said. ‘‘It’s the art education, you never lose it. I am always creating; l currently am creating art in the form of turkey calls.
‘‘I enjoy the mountain horse work, although it is tougher being in the saddle eight to 10 hours a day than it used to be,’’ he said. ‘‘The sorting and branding is about tradition, comradely, the extended “family,” community, and throwing your bedroll down outdoors.”
School Offices
Closed Aug. 17
All offices and buildings will be closed on Aug. 17 for districtwide training until 2 p.m. Call 747-8622 with questions.
Alaska Festival
Planning Listed
Coordinators for Sitka’s 2017 mid-October community Alaska Day Festival will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 15, at Centennial Hall.
Festival-sponsored events on the tentative schedule include New Archangel Dancers Show on Oct. 13, Barn Dance on Oct. 14, Variety Show on Oct. 15, Army Band Concert on Oct. 16, the Ball on Oct. 17, and Alaska Day focus on Oct. 18 with military memorial service, the parade, and Transfer Ceremony 1867 Commemoration on Castle Hill. Many other activities are being arranged by other organizations.
Persons having comments about festival activities or wishing to volunteer are invited to attend Alaska Day Committee meetings or contact Chairman Ted Allio at 747-5124, or Vice Chair Steve Dalquist at 752-0750, or Schedule Coordinator Elaine Strelow at 747-3469.
SFS, Coliseum
Screens Sushi Doc
For Seafood Fest
The Sitka Film Society and Coliseum Theater will present the critically acclaimed documentary “Jiro Dreams of Sushi,” 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, at the Coliseum Theater.
The film has received numerous accolades, with a 99 percent approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes. In the story, revered Tokyo sushi chef Jiro Ono strives for perfection in his work, while his eldest son, Yoshikazu, has trouble living up to his father’s legacy.
Tickets are $8 at Old Harbor Books and the door.
Those with questions may call 738-0602.
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
Photo caption: Sitka High students in the guitar music class gather in the hall before the school’s spring concert. The concert was dedicated to music instructor Brad Howey, who taught more than 1,000 Sitka High students from 1993 to 2004. From left are Kristina Bidwell, Rachel Ulrich, Mitch Rusk, Nicholas Mitchell, Eris Weis and Joey Metz.
50 YEARS AGO
April 1974
The Fair Deal Association of Sealaska shareholders selected Nelson Frank as their candidate for the Sealaska Board of Directors at the ANB Hall Thursday.
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