June 15, 2015 Community Happenings
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SSMF Week
Preview Set
Music educator Susan Reed will host a free one-hour discussion at Stevenson Hall, 104 Jeff Davis Street, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 16.
Reed will talk about the music and performers that will be featured in the third week of the festival. More information is at 747-6774.
Alaska Day Festival
Planners to Meet
Coordinators for Sitka’s mid-October community Alaska Day Festival will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, at Centennial Hall and each following third Tuesday of the month.
To recognize its importance in community life, “Meet Me at Centennial” is this year’s theme chosen by the Alaska Day Committee.
Persons having comments about Festival activities or new volunteers are invited to attend the meetings or contact chairman Ted Allio at 747-5124 or schedule coordinator Elaine Strelow at 747-3469.
Silent Auction
Set this Week
SEARHC hospital will have a silent auction up for four days this week.
It will be held 8 a.m.-2 p.m. June 18 and 19 on the ground floor at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital’s cafeteria, conference room A. It will then move to Moller Field and will be open 8 a.m.-2 p.m. June 19 and 20. The winners will be announced at 2 p.m. on June 20.
Lutherans Plan
‘Messy Church’
Sitka Lutheran Church will host ‘‘Messy Church’’ 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, June 17. This month’s theme is ‘‘Light of God.’’
Families and individuals are invited to enjoy a family-style supper time, a celebration worship, and an activity and craft. For more information call 747-3338.
Activities Slated
At National Park
Sitka National Historical Park offers daily guided programs teaching visitors about the park’s natural and cultural resources.
The week’s activities include:
–Tuesday, 10 a.m. and noon Totem Walks.
–Wednesday, 9 a.m. Totem Walk, 10:30 a.m. Russian-American History Walking Tour, 10:30 a.m. Sea Otter Discovery Talk, and noon Totem Walk
–Thursday, 9 a.m. Battle Walk, 10 a.m. Totem Walk, 10:30 a.m. Russian-American History Walking Tour, noon Totem Walk, 2:30 p.m. Sea Otter Discovery Talk.
–Friday, 10 a.m. Totem Walk and 1:30 p.m. Sea Otter Discovery Talk.
–Saturday, 10 a.m. Sea Otter Discovery Talk and 2 p.m. Totem Walk
The Russian-American History Walking Tour leaves from the Russian Bishop’s House. All other ranger-led tours meet at the Sitka NHP visitor center on Lincoln Street.
For more information call the visitor center at 747-0110.
Storyteller Sam
At Public Library
Traditional Tlingit storyteller Bob Sam will perform at Kettleson Memorial Library 2 p.m. Sunday, June 21.
The public is invited to attend.
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September 2004
Photo caption: Nikko Friedman and Gus Bruhl of the Rain Forest Rascals running team, dressed in skunk cabbage and boots, make their way down Lincoln Street during the annual Running of the Boots. Scores turned out for the event, a fundraiser for the Dog Point Fish Camp.
50 YEARS AGO
September 1974
The freshmen students initiation will be Friday at the school. Dress will be respectable. ... Suspension of three days will be enforced for any of the following violations: throwing of eggs; spraying of shaving cream; cutting of hair; and any pranks which could be harmful to the welfare of the students.
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