LUTHERAN QUILTERS – Members of the Quilts for Comfort Group stand between pews draped with some of the 205 quilts they made, in the Sitka Lutheran Church Tuesday. The group made the quilts for five local non-profits and one in Anchorage. The remaining quilts are sent to Lutheran World Relief which distributes them to places around the world in need, such as Ukraine, as part of Personal Care Kits. Pictured are, from left, Helen Cunningham, Kathleen Brandt,Vicki Swanson, Paulla Hardy, Kim Hunter, Linda Swanson and Sue Fleming. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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February 21, 2020, Community Happenings
Youth Hockey
Basics Taught
Hames Center will offer youth hockey, for ages 6-10, March 3-31. The course will introduce youths to the basic skills of hockey.
Practices will be 4:30-5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. The cost is $20 for Hames members or $45 for non-members for the month. Skates are recommended, but not required. Advanced registration is required. Register at Hames Center or 747-5080. For information, www.hamescenter.org.
Story Time Set
‘‘Famous Cats’’ will be the theme of the next story time program at Sitka Public Library 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 27.
‘‘Pete the Cat’’ and other cats will be celebrated during the preschool program. Everybody is welcome. For information, call the library at 747-4022.
Youth Makers
Club to Gather
Sitka Public Library is offering an introduction to Ozobot line coding for ages 8 to 10. The workshop will be 3:45-4:45 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, March 3 and 10. Pre-registration is required and space is limited.
Babies and Books
At Sitka Library
Sitka Babies and Books will celebrate their annual event with a Messy Art Party at Sitka Public Library on Saturday, Feb. 29, at 10:30 am. A variety of friendly art projects will be available for children under the age of 5. Registration is required and space is limited. Every child registered will get a free board book.
The event is free but registration is required to get the book.
For more information, call the library at 747 4022.
‘Our Alaskan
Stories’ Screened
The screening of ‘‘Our Alaskan Stories’’ and a reception will be held 7 p.m. Friday, March 6, at Sitka’s Cloud on Harbor Drive, next to the Yellow Jersey Bike Shop.
The event is sponsored by Artchange Inc.
Our Alaskan Stories is a video-based storytelling program in collaboration with students at Mt. Edgecumbe High School. The program facilitates young Alaskans learning the basics of video, audio and editing as tools to cultivate conversations about connection to community, home and culture across Alaska.
Unitarians Gather
“God Is Not One” will be the topic of conversation at Sunday’s meeting of the Sitka Unitarian Fellowship.
Kathy Kyle will outline the premise of Stephen Prothero’s book which examines “the eight rival religions that run the world, and why their differences matter.” This week’s discussion will concentrate on a comparison of Islam and Christianity.
Gathering begins at 10:30 a.m., with the program beginning at 10:45 a.m. Soup and bread will follow at noon. The Fellowship Hall is located at 408 Marine Street, with parking behind off Spruce Street. All are invited to attend. For information, call 747-3702.
Life Celebration for
Lorraine Thompson
A celebration of life for Lorraine Thompson will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at the Sitka Lutheran Church.
A reception will follow in the fellowship hall.
Lorraine passed away on Jan. 6 in Petersburg. She was 96.
Winter Baking
Class in March
Sitka Kitch will host a winter baking class on how to make brioche bread and pizza 5:30-8:30 p.m. March 17 at the Sitka Kitch, located at Sitka Lutheran.
Andrew Jylkka will teach how to make brioche, a yeasted bread used for french toast or burger buns. He will bring along sourdough pizza dough to make pizzas as the brioche dough rises. Attendees can take their favorite toppings to make dinner together in the downtime.
Jylkka moved to Sitka from Wrangell, where he started baking sourdough as a hobby. Two years later, and he’s diving full on into the bread world and wants to share his passion with Sitka.
The registration deadline is 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 15. Space is limited. The class costs $40, which is part of our new all-inclusive fee system. Register and pre-pay using credit/debit cards or PayPal on the EventSmart page, http://sitkakitch.eventsmart.com (click on class title). For those wanting to pre-pay with cash or check, call Chandler O’Connell or Clarice Johnson at Sitka Conservation Society, 747-7509, to arrange a payment.
This class is a fundraiser for the Sitka Kitch.
Sourdough Bread
Class Scheduled
The registration deadline for the fourth class in the Sitka Kitch’s Winter Baking Series, ‘‘Sourdough Bread with Carolyn Rice (Take Two)’’ will be 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, at the Sitka Kitch, and is similar to the sourdough bread class Rice taught on Jan. 14.
Register and pre-pay using credit/debit cards or PayPal on the EventSmart page, http://sitkakitch.eventsmart.com (click on class title). For those wanting to pre-pay with cash or check, call Chandler O’Connell or Clarice Johnson at Sitka Conservation Society, 747-7509, to arrange a payment.
This class is a fundraiser for the Sitka Kitch.
Reception Held
For Indea Ford
A celebration service for the release of Indea Ford from prison and her reunion with her family will be held 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, in the auditorium at Grace Harbor Church.
Prior to the service, at 6 p.m., will be hors d’oeuvres and finger foods and an opportunity to visit with Indea and her family before the service.
Those wanting to take food can contact Grace Harbor Church office at 747-5706.
Conferences Listed
At Blatchley School
Parent-teacher conferences at Blatchley Middle School will be held Feb. 25-26. The student-led conferences in open house format are 4-7 p.m. on both days.
Children will take their parents to each of their classes and show them their portfolios. Dinner will be served 4:30-6:30 p.m. on both days, free of charge.
For those families wanting to meet with grade-level teams, Thursday, Feb. 27, has been set aside for individual appointments. Call the main office at 747-8672 to arrange a meeting.
School will not be in session on Feb. 27-28.
On Dean’s List
Haley Bartolaba has been named to the dean’s list at California State University San Marcos for fall 2019.
To be placed on the dean’s list, students must obtain a grade point average of at leaste 3.5 for the semester.
Haley, a 2019 Sitka High graduate, is the daughter of Angie and Greg Bartolaba.
‘Recall Dunleavy’
Signatures Sought
The second phase of signature gathering for the Recall Dunleavy campaign ‘‘Sign Again and Bring 2 Friends!’’ begins Saturday, Feb. 29.
Anyone who signed during phase one needs to sign again, organizers said. Signers must be registered voters.
Dates and locations are: Unitarian Church, 401 Spruce Street, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays, Feb. 29 and March 7; Beak Restaurant, 2 Lincoln Street, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Mondays, March 2 and 9 and 4:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, March 4 and 11.
Signature gatherers also will be out and about in the community. Contact Beth Short-Rhoads, 738-9942, with any questions.
Sitka Tells Tales
Event on March 1
Sitka Tells Tales: Picking Up the Pieces, a live local storytelling event, will be 7-8:30 p.m. Sunday, March 1, at the Beak. The suggested donation is $5 per person.
The theme is ‘‘Stories of Turning Corners and Finding What’s Lost.’’
For more information email artchangeinc@gmail.com or call 738-2174.
‘Sea Urchins’
To be Discovered
At Family Event
The Sitka Sound Science Center needs help to find Bella, the baby sea urchin, 10 a.m.-noon Friday, Feb. 21.
Participants can travel to four different stations to learn about the diet and habitat requirements of sea urchins, as well as the currents and tides of Sitka.
‘‘The knowledge you acquire will help you to return Bella safely to her home,’’ organizers said.
The free event is for kids and families to learn about and explore the world of Bella, a baby sea urchin, to help return her to her home. The program will be 30-45 minutes to solve the case.
For information or questions contact Kristina Tirman at 747-8878 or ktirman@sitkascience.org.
Research Showcase
At Science Center
Student researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz will present their research projects from their monthlong marine field course here 5:30-7 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Sitka Sound Science Center.
Marine critters and snacks are guaranteed at the interactive behind-the-scenes event.
Marine Mammal
Panel to Meet
The Sitka Marine Mammal Commission will meet 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the Resource Protection Department office at 429 Katlian Street.
The public is invited. For information call Jeff Feldpausch at 747-7469.
Climate Change
In Alaska Villages
To be Presented
The Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum will host a talk by Dr. Richard Knecht 2 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at the museum.
His talk is titled ‘‘Treasures from the Melting Permafrost; Climate Change and Community-based Archaeology in a Yup’ik Village.’’
Knecht has been conducting archaeological research in Alaska since 1983. He lived and worked on Kodiak Island and the Aleutian Islands and was founding director of the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository on Kodiak and the Museum of the Aleutians in Unalaska.
He is currently a senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and has been leading the Nunalleq Archaeological Project in Quinhagak, since 2009 and is the founding director of the Nunalleq Culture Center and museum there. His lecture will showcase the unprecedented record of over 100,000 artifacts from the Nunalleq site and highlight pre-contact Yup’ik culture recovered through this community-based project and housed in the new Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center.
The Sheldon Jackson Museum is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission will be waived during the presentation by Knecht, but generally, winter admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, and free for children 18 and under and Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum members and Alaska State Museum pass holders. For information, call 747- 8981.
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March 2004
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March 1974
Photo caption: National Republican Chairman George Bush takes a drink of water offered by Jan Craddick, Sitka delegate, during the Republican convention held here. Mrs. Craddick explained to Bush that the water was from Indian River, which means, according to local legend, that he will return.