LUNCH CROWD – More than 70 Sitka seniors, including Liz Howard, facing camera, have lunch and socialize at Harrigan Centennial Hall this afternoon at Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s monthly Coffee Time for Elders event. Today’s lunch featured venison teriyaki and herring eggs. Next month’s Coffee Time will include a tribute to Sitka’s elders. Sitka SAIL staff helped serve at the lunch program that has been held since 2022. (Sentinel Photo)
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20 YEARS AGO
January 2005
Photo caption: Faces of Public Health Coalition members, from left, Susan Suarez, Michelle Kennedy, Chari Hample and Penny Lehmann show the Alaska Public Health Association Community Service award they received at the Annual Alaska Health Summit held in Anchorage.
50 YEARS AGO
January 1975
James Welch, who lived in Sitka as a boy, has just had a book titled “Winter in the Blood” published by Harper and Row. Reviewers from Newsweek, the New Yorker and the New York Times, among others, have praised it. Laurence Porter, formerly with the BIA at Mt. Edgecumbe and now owner of Porter’s Men’s Store, said James Welch was in his Boy Scout Troop.