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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July 17, 2018, Community Happenings
Family Activities
Set for STA Citizens
Strengthening Families through Healthy Activities will offer several activities this summer for Tribal citizens, STA employees and their families.
Open swims are 5-6 p.m. on Saturdays at Blatchley pool. Scheduled days are July 21, 28, Aug. 4, 11, 18, 24, Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29.
Open gym with skating and yoga is offered 1-3 p.m. every Sunday through August at Blatchley Middle School.
Parents and guardians must attend with their children.
Contact Jean Swanson at 747-3968 or jean.swanson@sitkatribe-nsn.gov with questions.
Businesswomen
Called to Meet
The Sitka Women’s Business Network will hold its monthly networking meet-up 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, July 25, at JI Design and Marketing, 201 Katlian St., Suite 115.
Contact Danielle Cassedy with questions at 738-6050 or danielle@empower-nutrition.com.
Tickets on Sale for
Kruzof Boat Trip
Tickets are available to the public for beachcombing on Kruzof Island and wildlife viewing on an Allen Marine boat.
The Paths Across the Pacific-sponsored event is 7:30 a.m.-noon Sunday, July 22. The boat will load at Crescent Harbor at 7 a.m.
The cost is $55 and includes breakfast, coffee tea, hot chocolate. Other beverages are available for purchase.
Tickets are available, for cash only, at Paths Across the Pacific conference registration desk at Centennial Hall, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. July 19 and 20.
Fiber Friends
Meet Saturday
Fiber Friends will meet noon-2 p.m. Saturday, July 21, at the Gus Adams Room in the Sitka Public Library. Attendees can take items for show and tell and ideas for a display in the library in August.
Weavers, spinners and other fiber workers are welcome. For information phone Alice at 747-3931.
Audio Storytelling
Event on July 20
Sitka Fellow in Residence Lila Cherneff will lead a workshop on audio storytelling 8:15-9:15 p.m. July 20 at the Yaw Art Center on the SJ Campus.
The class is part of her residency July 15-Aug. 2 with the Sitka Fine Arts Camp.
Events for registered participants will include workshops on Northwest Coast design and field sketching; and excursions to explore the land and sea around Sitka.
An evening lecture and concert series is open to the public each night at 7 p.m. with a $5 suggested donation.
For details or to register for a workshop, visit www.sitkafestival.org or call Sitka Fine Arts Camp at 747-3085.
Cherneff is a multimedia producer. Her work uses interactive mediums to tell stories about education, class and mental health. She was a 2016 fellow with the documentary unit of American Public Media, APM Reports.
Her work has been featured on podcasts and media outlets including 99% Invisible, Unfictional, Narrative.ly and Educate. Lila is currently a George Osher Scholar at Brown University. While in Sitka for a residency July 15-Aug. 13, she will be working on completing a series of five interactive, multimedia stories about landscape and healing.
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Children’s Store
The White Elephant Shop children’s store will have a $2 bag sale on books, videos and CDs 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday, and noon-3 p.m. Thursday and Saturday.
Storytelling Classes
Offered by Fellows
Sitka Fellows will host storytelling workshops Friday, July 20, at the Yaw Art Center on the SJ Campus.
Anna Dawson will teach visual storytelling through illustration 7-8 p.m. and Lila Cherneff will teach ‘‘Audio Storytelling: Podcasting Basics’’ 8:15-9:15 p.m. The workshops are free of charge and designed for teens and adults. For information, call Sitka Fine Arts Camp at 747-3085.
Students Learn
To Fillet Salmon
The Sitka Kitch community rental commercial kitchen will offer a class in conjunction with the Sitka Seafood Festival 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7, at 505 Sawmill Creek Road.
Chef Renée Jakaitis Trafton of Beak Restaurant will teach students how to fillet a salmon. It includes lessons on how to remove the pinbones from the salmon and how to remove the skin.
The Sitka Seafood Festival is providing fish for the class. The registration cost is $30, which includes a new fillet knife for every student.
The registration deadline is 11:55 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 4. Registration is capped at 10 students. Register online at www.sitkalocalfoodsnetwork.com using a debit or credit card or PayPal account, or call Claire, Chandler or Clarice at Sitka Conservation Society (747-7509) to arrange the drop-off of a cash or check payment. For information about the two classes, contact Jasmine Shaw at 747-9440, Claire Sanchez at 747-7509 or email sitkakitch@sitkawild.org.
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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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