FAMILY FUN – Crystal Johns holds her son Zayne , 2, as she follows her son Ezekiel, 4, up an inflatable slide Saturday at Xoots Elementary School during the annual Spring Carnival. The event included games, prizes, cotton candy, and karaoke. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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December 2, 2022, Letters to the Editor
In Appreciation
Dear Editor: I am quite late in personally thanking so many of you in the community who actively took part in the Sitka Homeless Coalition fund raising project nearly a year ago now, in late 2021. I want you to know how totally “blown away” I felt as your donations for the cabin community on Jarvis Street just kept coming and coming! What an amazing outpouring that I never thought I would see in Sitka.
Of course, what had long been on my mind and heart were the 53 building owners who refused to rent to the coalition so that a winter night shelter, that year, could open. It would have been something very different than many had experienced the prior winter and many winters before that.
We just kept going and, with help from many of you, provided what we could to ease the arduous nature of living outdoors during winter months. And then, before New Year’s 2022, there came in a little more than $103,000! It-was-amazing!! Equally amazing was the continuing quiet response of Sitkans who are not in favor of this project.
My appreciation to each of you for just quietly allowing this community response to grow without comment. In this way, we ALL contributed what we could and I appreciate each one for what was given.
Going forward, we all anticipate that many things will change. As additional
people are added to projects, the goals tend to move around and new ideas are brought forward. It is, again, my deepest desire that the Sitkans who have lived outside, many of them longer than too many others of us have been in town, might see, without any delay or “better idea,” the construction of small cabins that will warm and shelter those long in need and provide a comfort space for growing older in our town.
A staff member of the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority recently remarked to me that she was so glad to see this Sitka project going forward, very much as it was first conceived as, she said, it is often the case that there is not, in the end, shelter for single, unattached people. She is particularly glad to see this project going forward and she hopes other communities might follow our lead.
So, as we watch the evolving details of this 2021 joint project of the Sitka Homeless Coalition and the Sitka Health Summit, we pray that the first goal will remain as the final goal of this Phase and that, after that, anything is possible.
Gayle Young, Sitka
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April 2004
Photo caption: Sen. Lisa Murkowski talks with students in Karoline Bekeris’ fourth-grade class Thursday at the Westmark Shee Atika. From left are Murkowski, Kelsey Boussom, Laura Quinn and Memito Diaz.
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April 1974
A medley of songs from “Jesus Christ Superstar” will highlight the morning worship service on Palm Sunday at the United Methodist Church. Musicians will be Paige Garwood and Karl Hartman on guitars; Dan Goodness on organ; and Gayle Erickson on drums.
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