LOCAL BOUNTY – Scores of Sitkans fill Harrigan Centennial Hall Sunday during the annual Sitka Conservation Society Wild Foods Potluck and annual meeting. The event included several buffet tables of locally harvested meat and produce. Posters honoring longtime SCS contributors Tad Fujioka, Alice Johnstone, Marcel LaParriere and Chuck Miller, who passed away this year, were on display at the event. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Police Blotter
Sitka police received the following calls by 8 a.m. today:
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August 23, 2022, Police Blotter
Sitka Police Department received the following calls as of 8 a.m. today.
August 22
At 9:13 a.m. a parent reported a child custody issue. Police advised the caller of options.
At 12:21 p.m. another child custody issue was reported, and police again advised of options.
At 1:28 p.m. a driver complained about traffic backed up at HPR and Lake Street.
At 2:25 p.m. a driver in the 700 block of SMC was advised to turn down the volume of the music.
At 3 p.m. a caller complained that a driver ahead of him was being obstructive in the HPR and Katlian area. The caller said he knows the driver.
At 3:17 p.m. a caller reported food was being left outside for birds in the 400 block of Lake Street. The litter was gone when police checked.
Kids turned in a cell phone found at Crescent Harbor.
At 9 p.m. a driver was reported swerving in the 1300 block of HPR. Officers were unable to locate it.
At 11 p.m. a bartender reported a fight at a downtown bar. When officers arrived the fight had broken up. The officers patrolled the area for a time.
August 23
At 12:19 a.m. a vehicle was reported parked on the bridge with hazard lights on while a search was made for a drill bit. The drill bit was found and the vehicle left.
A cell phone was turned in.
At 5:42 a.m. police helped a driver find a 30-day parking spot in the Sealing Cove lot.
At 6:16 a.m. TSA reported brass knuckles were found in luggage at the airport. Police seized the weapon.
At 7:40 a.m. a fender bender was reported on Katlian Street. The drivers submitted self-report forms.
Sitka Police
Donald Vanastdoll, 57, was charged Monday with violating conditions of release.
Emergency Calls
Sitka Fire Department received four ambulance calls Monday.
At 10:32 a.m. Monday a fire call was received from the Sitka Hotel where oily rags had been put in a dryer. No fire resulted.
Coast Guard
A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter crew early this morning flew a 42-year-old woman with a possible case of paralytic shellfish poisoning from Klawock to Sitka.
A clinic on Prince of Wales Island called Coast Guard District 17 in Juneau around 2:30 a.m. The helicopter crew picked up the patient in Klawock at 4:41 a.m., and was back in Sitka at 5:58 a.m., the Coast Guard said. The woman was taken by ambulance to Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center.
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20 YEARS AGO
November 2004
The Digital Cameras for Beginners class has been scheduled at UAS, Sitka Campus. Tim Schroeder will teach the basic operations of a digital camera, the assets and limitations,, and how to get some great shots. Students are invited to take their own cameras.
50 YEARS AGO
November 1974
Les Yaw has been named chairman of the 1974 fund drive at Sheldon Jackson College. ... A goal of $30,000 has been set for the campaign, Ed Scholz, school advancement assistant, said, with money to be used for the SJC aquaculture program.
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