Fishing Vessel
Drill Conductor
Training Listed
The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association will offer a Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor class Dec. 3, at NSRAA, 1308 Sawmill Creek Road. The cost is $53 for commercial fishermen and $185.50 for all others. Mariners may register online at www.amsea.org or call 747-3287.
Instructor Jerry Dzugan will cover cold-water survival skills, EPIRBs, signal flares, mayday calls, man-overboard recovery, firefighting, flooding and damage control, dewatering pumps, immersion suits and PFDs, helicopter rescue, life rafts, abandon ship procedures, and emergency drills.
The workshops meet U.S. Coast Guard training requirements on commercial fishing vessels.
The class is at a reduced cost to commercial fishermen through support from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, and AMSEA members.
Fall Art Walk
Set on Nov. 29
The Greater Sitka Arts Council invites the public to the Fall Art Walk 5-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 29, at participating places downtown.
Lincoln Street will be closed to vehicular traffic for art exhibits, performances and activities. To register or learn more, email thinkartthinksitka@gmail.com.
‘Sablefish’ Topic
Of Thursday Event
Matt Callahan, Rhea Ehresmann and Anne Beaudreau will present “Sablefish: The Honey Badgers of the Sea” 7:30 p.m. tonight in room 229 at UAS-Sitka Campus.
‘‘Sitka waters are swarming with juvenile sablefish (blackcod) this year. While many fish species suffer in “warm blob” conditions, sablefish are possible climate winners,’’ the presenters said. ‘‘These voracious little fish devour herring and salmon smolts but also provide food for adult salmon and seabirds. Our University of Alaska team has studied juvenile sablefish for the last seven years. In this talk, we present the story of our recent discoveries and what makes baby blackcod the ‘honey badgers of the sea.”’
Beaudreau is the principal investigator of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Coastal Fisheries Ecology Lab in Juneau, Matt Callahan is a master’s degree student with Beaudreau, and Ehresmann is a biologist with the ADF&G in Sitka.
First Aid, CPR
Class Offered
To Mariners
Alaska Marine Safety Education Association will offer a mariners first aid and CPR/AED class in Sitka Dec. 4 at N.S.R.A.A., 1308 Sawmill Creek Road. Cost of the class is $100, including sales tax. Register online at www.amsea.org or call 747-3287.
Instructor Jerry Dzugan will cover CPR and automatic external defibrillators; medical emergencies; trauma; environmental hazards; patient assessment; medical communications; drowning and hypothermia; and common fishing injuries. Attendees will receive a Coast Guard-accepted two-year certificate issued by the American Safety & Health Institute.
ANS Christmas
Bazaar Dec. 14
A Christmas bazaar hosted by Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 4 will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 14 at the ANB Founders Hall.
Contact Rachel at 747-7382 or 505-204-3634 to rent a table at $40 each.
Sitkans Inducted
To Honor Society
Harding University inducted more than 100 students, including two Sitkans, into the school’s chapter of Alpha Chi National Honor Society at a ceremony on Nov. 3.
Sitka High graduates Joanna Davis, an English with licensure major, and Joy Davis, elementary education major, were among the inductees.
Alpha Chi is a nationally acclaimed honor society designed to commend academic excellence in universities across the nation. Harding’s chapter, called the Arkansas Eta chapter, is for the upper 10 percent of the junior and senior classes from all academic fields who have earned a minimum 3.85 grade point average over at least 80 course hours. It’s also open to graduate students who rank in the top 10 percent of their specific program.
Harding University is a private Christian, liberal arts university located in Searcy, Arkansas.
Turkey Trot
5k Benefit Set
Sitka High track and field team is organizing the Turkey Trot 5K and 1-mile Gobble Wobble 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 28, at Crescent Harbor.
Registration starts at 9 a.m. The cost for 5k is $15 for adults and $10 for 16 and younger. Winner of each 5K classification wins a pie.
The 1-mile Gobble Wobble cost is $10.
All participants will be entered into a pie drawing. Proceeds benefit the travel fund for the Sitka High School track and field team.
Kaagwaantaan
Meet Nov. 17
Sitka Kaagwaantaan will meet 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, for a song practice in room 114 at Blatchley Middle School. For information call Roby at 738-4004.
Health Networking
Lunch on Nov. 22.
The Sitka Health Summit Coalition’s monthly Wooch.een (“together” in Tlingit) health networking and learning lunch will be noon-1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, at the Sitka Long Term Care classroom, 209 Moller Avenue.
The purpose of the open public meeting is to spark partnerships and promote cross sector collaboration, learning, and networking to improve well-being in Sitka, the organization said. For information go to sitkahealthsummit.org or contact Doug Osborne at 738-8734 or douglaso@searhc.org.
