CHANGE UP – U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Vincent Jansen, left, shakes hands with Cmdr. Joesph Semke as Rear Admiral Megan Dean, Seventeenth District Commander, looks on this morning at Air Station Sitka during the change of command ceremony. Jansen is leaving Sitka after serving as the air station’s commander during what Dean described as the busiest two years of search and rescue operations in the past 20 years at the air station. Semke, who has been operations officer here since 2021, assumes the command in a rare service career path. Jansen is moving to Juneau with his wife, Ellie, and son, Fraser, where he will be chief of incident management at Coast Guard District Seventeen headquarters. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)

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20 YEARS AGO

June 2004 

Sitka was hot over the weekend, but how hot was it? The Sitka FAA Flight Service Station recorded a high of 81 degrees Sunday, who broke the previous record for that date, 78 degrees in 1958. It was 81 on Saturday, too, but the record for that date was 85 degrees, also set in 1958.

50 YEARS AGO

June 1974

Miss Margaret Fedoroff, Sitka, has been graduated with high honors from Michigan State University, where she received a bachelor degree in special education. She is the daughter of Mrs. Jack Calvin of Sitka and George Fedoroff of Washington, D.C. ....  David Bickar, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Bickar, has been designated a Kroll Scholar next year at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Sitka’s annual Sitka Sportsman’s Association Salmon Derby will be launched at 8 a.m. Saturday for two weekends of sport fishing. ... Thousands of dollars in prizes, including a $2,000 first prize, will be given away. Last year some 200 fish were turned in, with Nick Pelayo’s 64-pound, 6 ounce, salmon being the winner.

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