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April 20, 2018, Community Happenings


Sitka Walking Advocate

Receives National Award

America Walks, a national advocacy organization working to empower communities to create safe, accessible, and enjoyable places to walk, has announced that Charles Bingham of Walk Sitka has been awarded a Walking College Fellowship as part of the 2018 program.

The Fellowship will enable Bingham and other advocates from around the country to participate in a five-month training program designed to strengthen local efforts to make communities more walkable and livable. 

“We are delighted to welcome Charles Bingham as a member of the Walking College,” said Emilie Bahr, Walking College Manager with America Walks, “It was a very competitive application process and he will be a great addition to the 2018 class. We look forward to developing his skills and are excited to see his work grow.”

Bingham will complete a six-module distance-education training program this summer, followed by an independent study project in Sitka, and then attend Walk/Bike/Places in New Orleans in the fall. He is the first Alaskan selected to the Walking College Fellowship.

“One of the goals of the first Sitka Health Summit (2007) was to become a walk and bicycle friendly community,” said Bingham, a former newspaper journalist who now works as a freelance media/public relations and grant-writing specialist. “In 2008, Sitka became Alaska’s first official Bicycle Friendly Community (Bronze level), but at the time there wasn’t a similar program for walking.

‘‘We repeated our Bronze level Bicycle Friendly Community designation in 2012, and moved up to the Silver level in 2016. In 2013, we became Alaska’s first official Walk Friendly Community with a Bronze level designation, and we renewed our Bronze level designation in 2017,’’ he said. ‘‘Hopefully the knowledge I gain from being a Walking College Fellow will help Sitka upgrade to the Silver or Gold level in the Walk Friendly Community program. I also think I’ll be able to apply the knowledge to my cycling advocacy work.”

Bingham wrote Sitka’s two renewal Bicycle Friendly Community applications (he helped on the first) and also wrote Sitka’s two Walk Friendly Communities applications. In addition to coordinating the Walk Sitka program that came out of the Sitka Health Summit, he also is part of the Sitka Bicycle Friendly Community Coalition. He builds the Walk Sitka and Sitka Cycling websites (http://walksitka.wordpress.com and http://sitkacycling.wordpress.com) and administrates the corresponding Facebook pages for each. Bingham moderates the Alaska Bicycling and Walking Advocacy Group on Facebook, too.

 

Presbyterians Plan

Good News Club

Kindergartners and first-graders are invited to a Good News Club with puppets each Friday, April 27-June 1, at the Presbyterian Church, 505 Sawmill Creek Road.

Children will use puppets to re-enact popular Bible stories and songs. Registration forms are available at Salvation Army Little Store, the Presbyterian Church, the downtown Post Office, or by contacting Mary Stevens at 907-752-2048 or baranofdogwoodinn@gmail.com.

 

Unitarians Meet

Jackson Matthew will show his documentary film, ‘‘Uprivers: A Transboundary,’’ at the Sunday, April 22, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship meeting. Fellowship begins at 10:30 a.m., with the program at 10:45 a.m. Soup and bread follow at noon. 

He will tell the story of the film’s creation and answer questions about transboundary mining and how it affects people in two neighboring countries.

In observance of Earth Day, the group will be planting apple trees in front of the building after the program.

The hall is at 408 Marine Street, with parking behind off Spruce Street.

 

 

Earth Day Service

At St. Peter’s

St. Peter’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church will have an Earth Day service 10 a.m. Sunday, April 22. 

 

All are invited to the celebration at 611 Lincoln Street. For more information, call 747-3977. 

 

Concert May 1 in collaboration with Sitka Summer Music Festival

A concert in memory of William Stortz will be 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, at the Church of the Nazarene.

It is being presented by the Piatigorsky Foundation in collaboration with the Sitka Summer Music Festival.

The program will feature masterpieces performed by two Piatigorsky Foundation artists, soprano Katharine Dain and Jeffrey Grossman, piano.

Last year, the foundation presented its inaugural tour of Alaska with five concerts in Sitka, Petersburg, Gustavus and Haines. This year it aims to reach hundreds of people across Alaska as it continues its mission to increase awareness and appreciation of classical music in communities throughout the country. 

Dain, acclaimed for “thrilling,” “heart-piercing” performances (Irish Times), has sung with the Netherlands Opera (Claude Vivier Kopernikus), Sinfonia Teatro Comunale di Bologna under Roberto Abbado, Südwestradiofunkorchester Freiburg and Baden-Baden under Ingo Metzmacher, Asko|Schönberg Ensemble under Reinbert de Leeuw, Nieuw Ensemble under Ed Spanjaard, and with orchestras and opera companies throughout Europe and the United States.

Her opera roles include Donizetti’s Lucia and Mozart’s Donna Anna and Fiordiligi. This year will see her role debut as Konstanze in five French opera houses. She has appeared at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Paris Philharmonie, and at festivals including Aldeburgh Music, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Holland Festival, and the Ravinia Festival.

Dain was educated at Harvard University, Boston, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, and Mannes College of Music, New York. She currently lives in the Netherlands. www.katharinedain.com.

Keyboardist and conductor Grossman specializes in performances of music of the past, through processes that are collaborative and historically informed. This season, Grossman directs from the harpsichord and organ concerts with the acclaimed baroque ensemble The Sebastians and returns to the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra as featured harpsichord soloist in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti.

In addition to serving as artistic director of The Sebastians, he also performs this year with TENET, The Green Mountain Project, Chamber Music Northwest, Quodlibet, New York Baroque Incorporated, and the Bach Players of Holy Trinity. He can be heard on the Avie, Gothic, Naxos, Albany, Soundspells, Métier and MSR Classics record labels.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, he holds degrees from Harvard, Juilliard, and Carnegie Mellon University. He currently resides in New York City.

Evan Drachman established The Piatigorsky Foundation in 1990 in honor of his grandfather Gregor Piatigorsky. Piatigorsky deeply believed in the healing and inspiration power of classical music.

Piatigorsky once said, “Music makes life better. Music is a necessity. It is rich. It is imaginative. It is magnificent. And it is for everyone.” The Piatigorsky Foundation is committed to carrying on Piatigorsky’s mission by evoking cultural curiosity through educational and accessible live performances. 

 

Anglers Get Rules

On Filleting Fish

Boat anglers returning to ports when on-site F&G creel surveys are conducted will be prohibited from filleting, mutilating or de-heading sport-caught lingcod, nonpelagic rockfish, and king and coho salmon at-sea.

Anglers returning to Sitka on the road system 12:01 a.m. April 23 through Sept. 8 may not fillet, mutilate, or de-head these fish until their vessel is tied up at a docking facility where the fish will be offloaded, unless the fish have been consumed or preserved on board.

The restriction is to maximize information obtained through ADF&G angler interview and dockside sampling programs. Southeast Alaska management plans adopted by the Alaska Board of Fisheries require length and sex information for lingcod, length information for nonpelagic rockfish, and identification of tagged king and coho salmon, which can be obtained only when fish are intact.

On-site sampling is conducted during the fishing season at many harbors to estimate sport fishing effort and harvest, and contribution of hatchery and wild stocks of king and coho salmon to regional sport fisheries.

The action does not prohibit gutting and gilling fish before returning to port. Anglers may fillet and head king and coho salmon, lingcod and nonpelagic rockfish on board a vessel once it is tied up at a docking facility where the fish will be offloaded. For information, contact the nearest ADF&G office or visit http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/sf/EONR/index.cfm?ADFG=Region.R1.

 

Local Authors

At Book Store

Old Harbor Books will host an evening with local writers Kersten Christianson and Vivian Faith Prescott 6 p.m. Thursday, April 26. The event is free and open to the public.

 

SAFV Board Meets

The board of Sitkans Against Family Violence will meet 4:30 p.m. April 30 at the shelter. The meeting is open to the public. For directions and more information, call 747-3370. 

 

Stories Celebrate

Children’s Day

‘‘The Library Book’’ by Tom Chapin and Mark Michael will be one of the readings at the preschool story time 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 26, at Sitka Public Library.

The program will celebrate El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), commonly known as Día, a celebration every day of children, families, and reading that culminates yearly on April 30. 

The celebration emphasizes the importance of literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

 

 

Babies & Books

‘Get Moving’

“Get Moving,” Sitka Babies and Books next program, will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 28, at Sitka Public Library.

Joe Montagna will play music and exercises for babies and toddlers that parents can put in practice while working on the cognitive benefits of movement. All are welcome.

 

USCG Garage

Sale Saturday

The Coast Guard will have its annual garage sale 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, April 21. It is open to the public at the Air Station Hangar, 611 Airport Road.

Items will range from household to camping and fishing gear, a few vehicles, and possibly boats.

 

Help Sought for

Earth Day CleanupAll are invited to join the Forest Service, Sitka 4-H and Sitka Conservation Society for an Earth Day cleanup of Indian River on Sunday, April 22. Meet at the Indian River trailhead at 10 a.m. Participants should take a water bottle and work clothes. 

 

‘A Plastic Ocean’

To Screen Tonight

“A Plastic Ocean” will be shown for free 7 p.m. tonight at Room 229 at the UAS Sitka Ccampus.

The film documents the environmental impact of plastics in oceans around the globe. A panel and action discussion with scientists, fishermen and activists will follow the film. Plastic-free refreshments will be served so attendees should take their own cup.

Contact 747-2708 for more information. The program is sponsored by Bags for Change, Sitka Conservation Society, and the Sitka Sound Science Center.

 

Drug Take Back

Day is April 28

The HOPE Coalition, in partnership with the Sitka Police Department, Sitka Counseling, Sitka Public Health Office and Harry Race Pharmacy, will provide a free drug take back event 10 a.m.-2 p.m. April 28 at Centennial Hall.

All are invited to drop off their unused, unwanted or expired medications  free of charge with no questions asked. In addition to the medication drop off, free medication disposal bags will be available for personal use.

NARCAN kits will also be available for free with a short training on how to properly administer it. Other information will be available to the public for free. 

Due to safety concerns, IV solutions, injectables, sharps, syringes and medical waste cannot be accepted. Contact Loyd Platson at Sitka Counseling, 747-3636, for more information.

 

Class Placement

Forms at Keet

Class placement forms for next school year are available in the office at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School. The form will help  provide the school with information regarding a child’s needs for next school year.

Forms should be filled out as soon as possible.

 

Yearbook Sales

At KGH School

Keet Gooshi Heen is selling 2017-2018 yearbooks for $12 each.

To ensure receiving a book, parents should pre-order at the office or give the money and order form to a classroom teacher. Order forms are available at the office to pay for check or cash. Parents may pay online with a credit card by going to the Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary website: www.sitkaschools.org/kgh. Click on KGH Yearbook 2018 to find the information to pay with a credit card.

Call the school office at 747-8395 for further information.

 

ANS to Meet

Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 4 will meet 5:30 p.m. April 24 at the ANB Founders Hall.

The meeting is open to the public and all are welcome.

 

Kaagwaantaan

Meet Sunday

Sitka Kaagwaantaan will meet 5 p.m. Sunday at Blatchely Middle School, Room 114, for a song practice and planning meeting. 

 

Allies Panel Set

For Youths, Adults

All are invited to attend and contribute to a panel discussion on empowering youths to take action to improve their lives and community, hosted by the Sitka Youth Leadership Committee 7-8:30 p.m. May 2 at Centennial Hall.

Young people in communities across the globe are at the forefront of social movements and are speaking out against injustice and violence.

‘‘But in order to point out and prevent injustices, youths need to be given opportunities to speak and act,’’ the SYLCommittee said. ‘‘How can our community become more empowering to youths, and encourage youths to use their voices for positive transformation?’’

SYLC members will speak about their experiences working to promote equity and respect, and will offer ideas for building a more inclusive community. Adult members of the panel will share their perspectives on youth empowerment in Sitka. All members of the community, especially youths and those who work with youths, are encouraged to attend and contribute to the conversation. 

 

This Week in Girls on the Run 

By Sitkans Against Family Violence

Girls on the Run is an empowerment-based program for girls in third through fifth grades, currently in its 10th season at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School! GOTR is much more than an after-school activity. It is designed to bring girls together with strength and resilience to prepare them for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living. Through dynamic, interactive lessons and running games, GOTR prepares girls for a final celebratory 5K Fun Run while teaching life-skills and unleashing confidence!

Recently in GOTR, participants have been learning about standing up for others. Girls considered various scenarios in which they might feel conflicted about standing up for others. For instance, if classmates are laughing at someone’s clothes, or if someone didn’t get invited to a birthday party, it might be hard to stand up for the person being hurt or left out. Girls shared experiences of times they stood up for others, and discussed how it felt to stand up for someone in a difficult situation. Here’s what the girls had to say.

–“Bullies pick on other people usually because they got bullied, too. If we stand up for each other, we won’t hurt each other.”

–“It can be scary to stand up for someone else because then you might get made fun of, too. But you should do the right thing and stand up for them.” 

–“If you’re feeling really scared about standing up for someone who is being bullied, then tell a teacher or an adult you trust about what’s happening.” 

Throughout this season, GOTR will provide the Sitka community with updates from the program. We also hope to give mentors and parents an opportunity to pass on skills from GOTR to the youths in your life! Here are some conversation starters for talking with kids about emotional health. 

–Have you ever been afraid to stand up for someone else who was being bullied?

–How do you feel when other people stand up for you?

Girls on the Run is brought to you in Sitka by Sitkans Against Family Violence. Call 747-3370 or see our website, safv.org, for more information.

 

 

 

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