Daily Sitka Sentinel

July 6, 2018, Community Happenings

Glam Emoji Event

For Be-Tweens

Sitka Public Library invites BE-Tweens Summer Club members to participate in a Glam Emoji program 6-7:30 p.m. Friday, July 13.

The Summer Club is a place for tweens ages 11 to 13 dedicated to inspire creativity, thinking outside the box and leadership skills, the library said. The program will appeal to tweens craving independence and connection.

Tweens of all abilities are welcome but registration is required.

The initiative is part of Libraries Rock! Summer Library Program. For  information, call the library at 747-8708 or visit the Library Teen Website.

White E Shop

Meeting July 11

The White Elephant Shop monthly meeting will be 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 11, at the Swan Lake Senior Center.  Meetings are open to the public.

White E Sale Set

The White Elephant Shop will have a half-price sale on all blue tag items starting noon-3 p.m. Saturday. The sale will be in both stores and will continue 6-8 p.m. Monday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday, and noon-3 p.m. Thursday.

Howards Postpone

Renewal of Vows

Liz and Glenn Howard’s renewal of vows ceremony originally scheduled Saturday at the Presbyterian Church has been postponed due to illness.

The two are celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary in September.

Washington Volunteers Serve Sitka Lutheran 

Sandra and Doug Drees, residents of Tumwater, Washington, will serve Sitka Lutheran Church as volunteers this month.

Having enjoyed a cruise to Alaska they have fallen in love with the beauty of the state and wished to return while performing Christian service at Sitka Lutheran Church and helping out the community by being a friendly face for tourists who come to Sitka.    

After serving 22 years in the U.S. Navy as a senior aircraft maintenance supervisor, Doug Drees moved his family back to the Olympia/Tumwater region in 1978. He began working for Boeing as a quality assurance inspector. Since then, he has enjoyed teaching aircraft welding at local high schools.

Sandra Drees was mom and dad while Doug was in the Navy, but, upon his retirement she worked for Big Brothers Big Sisters and as a Christian church administrator.

Since retiring both have been even more active in their Lutheran congregation with church building maintenance, singing in the choir, serving Communion to the homebound, and helping with Vacation Bible School.  

The Drees say they’re are happy to serve Sitka Lutheran during the busy tourist season. Cleaning bathrooms, answering questions, vacuuming floors, selling popcorn are tasks that they welcome. 

They will help with garage sales for Youth Mission Travel, explain Sitka Lutheran’s rich Finnish-Lutheran history to tourists and care for the historic Lutheran Cemetery.  

Regular Sunday morning worship services are held at 10:30 a.m.  Wednesday evenings at 6 p.m. a weekly soup supper is held in the church followed by a short prayer service. Youth group, quilting and monthly Messy Church services round out a few of the activities of Sitka Lutheran Church.

For more information call the church office at 747-3338, visit the church’s web site at: http://www.sitkalutheranchurch.org/ or e-mail the office at sitkalutheranchurch@gmail.com.  

Cello Seminar

Concerts Listed

Sitka International Cello Seminar will present a free hourlong concert 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 10, downstairs at the Mean Queen. It is a program of the Sitka Summer Music Festival. The July 11 concert will be at Ludvig’s Wine Bar. It’s free and open to all.

The concert features several top collegiate cellists from around the world. For more information visit sitkamusicfestival.org or call 747-6774.