Science Fellow to
Lead Discussion
On Landslides
Sitka Sound Science Center’s scientist in residency fellow Max Izenberg will discuss social science and how it informs natural resource work at virtual brown bag lunch events at noon on both April 28 and May 5. The discussion will be on landslide safety and insurance.
Izenberg’s online presentation will be about the power of social science and how social science is an important part of community work in Sitka.
As a partner on the Landslide Warning System, he will discuss how social science is a part of that work, how social science is a tool for understanding the world at large, and how we can help address ecological concerns like landslides (and more) with social science, the Sitka Sound Science Center said.
Izenberg is a social scientist and doctoral student with the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy. Izenberg has supported community-partnered policy research and worked with policymakers across many countries to develop and evaluate policies related to public health, disaster recovery, social protection, and migration.
Email Callie at csimmons@sitkscience.org or call 747-8878 to register.
Sitka, Juneau
Pioneers to Meet
Sitka Pioneers of Alaska has been invited to share a Zoom program with the Juneau Pioneer organization 6 p.m. Friday, April 30, at Centennial Hall.
The program, about WPA activities in Alaska, will be presented by the Juneau city museum director. Works Projects Administration was a Federal agency of the 1930s as one part of an effort to get out of the depression.
Sitka Pioneer members are encouraged to attend. Bottled drinks and packaged snacks will be served or people may take their own food and masks.
Any Sitkans who have lived in Alaska 20-plus years and are interested in the Sitka Pioneer organization can attend; however, they are asked to call 738-2677 or 738-7411 so seats may be arranged in a proper COVID restrictions manner.
Cultural Resource
Committee Meets
The Sitka Tribe of Alaska Cultural Resource Committee will meet 5 p.m. Thursday, April 29, at the Sheet’ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi Community House.
The agenda will include nomination of officers, National Park Service Russian Bishop’s House and Kiks.adi Survival March interpretive project tribal consultation, SSD Land Acknowledgement, and the Baranof Elementary School renaming plan.
Those with questions can contact STA CREED Director Tristan Guevin at tristan.guevin@sitkatribe-nsn.gov or 747-3207.
Boating Safety
Class in Sitka
The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association will offer a boating safety class 8 a.m.-5 p.m. May 22 at NSRAA, 1308 Sawmill Creek Road.
The cost is $125. Boaters may register online at www.amsea.org or call 747-3287.
Instructor Jerry Dzugan will cover trip planning, weather and risk assessment, distress signals and mayday calls, personal flotation devices, cold-water survival, skills, man overboard recovery, seven steps to survival, basic shore survival, engine breakdowns, and more.
AMSEA’s boating safety class can introduce new boaters to necessary skills for safe boating in Southeast Alaska and is a refresher class for more experienced boaters.
Young Alaskans
Conference Set
The Conference of Young Alaskans will be hosted by the Alaska Municipal League Aug. 1-4 in Fairbanks.
Fifty-five emerging leaders between the ages of 16 and 25 will participate as “delegates,” deliberating municipal policy and forming vision statements for municipal governance in Alaska. Delegates will be selected based on their application to participate. Selected delegates will attend at no cost to them.
The application deadline is May 10.
Those with questions may call Portland Highbaugh, program coordinator at the Alaska Municipal League, (907) 790-5306.
Work Party Set
At Boathouse
The Sitka Maritime Heritage Society will hold a volunteer work party to start rebuilding a wall on the Japonski Island Boatshop, 9 a.m.-noon Saturday May 1.
Volunteers should be moderately skilled for the project to carefully remove old siding and trim for rebuilding a historic wall. Masks are required. Volunteers should take gloves and tools if they have them. Volunteers can help out for part or all the time. Project leaders will provide training in historic preservation principles and methods.
Coffee and snacks provided. Call 738-7448 or email sitkamaritime@gmail.com for more information, or go to sitkamaritime.org.
T’ai Chi Chih
Practice Saturday
T’ai Chi Chih Practice will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, May 1, behind the Sitka Public Library.
