Vote for Dapcevich
Dear Editor: Diana Dapcevich has the intellect, skills and creativity to help solve, and provide beneficial input on most any financial matter. In listening to her productive and outcome based ideas, sound judgments and resolutions to financial problems facing Sitka now, and for those that will continue into the years ahead, I am convinced that she is utterly capable of holding a seat on the Assembly, and that she would be an effective, and efficient asset to our governing body and our community. Diana has the ability to interpolate and extrapolate numbers, to make them work in any given situation with a positive outcome. The preponderance of issues faced by the Sitka Assembly are financial. Diana understands the fiscal difficulties faced by businesses, and private citizens; she is an excellent, well informed tax accountant, always on the cutting edge, one could say, a master at working with numbers with positive outcomes.
Diana was born and raised in Sitka, and she loves her hometown. She understands that she would be a representative for the people of Sitka, to work for our citizens in the betterment of our community. She brings no personal agenda to the table. She is passionate and compassionate about equity, and equality, individually and corporately. Diana earned her bachelor of science degree in environmental toxicology, did research for the USDA, and has worked in pharmaceutical testing labs in quality control. Stepping in to do the accounting when her manager fell ill, she branched out and flourished in her accounting studies, and decided to join the family business, Dapcevich Accounting. In her four years settling in back home, she is ready and willing to go to work on our behalf, all of Sitka, and not just special interest groups. As we are now living a world so much different from previous generations, her vitality and fresh, more youthful perspective, is sorely needed on the Assembly to help us navigate these changes in the coming months and years.
Diana Dapcevich stands on her own merits. Let us promote and elect a highly competent young woman who has the intelligence and ability to serve Sitka well with both heart and mind. I proudly support Diana Dapcevich and she has my vote!
Karen Lucas, Sitka
COVID-19 and ACA
Dear Editor: In Tuesday’s Sentinel (9/29/2020), an article mentioned that there were 68 cumulative cases of people in the community who have been infected with COVID-19, and 61 of those people have “recovered”.
Do these people realize that if Trump is successful in getting the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) repealed, they will be considered by insurance carriers as having a “pre-existing condition,” and will then become basically “un-insurable” when seeking future health insurance coverage?
Perhaps a Sentinel staff reporter could do a future article informing the community of the effect of any future repeal of the ACA.
Florian Sever, Sitka
Endorse Duncan
Dear Editor: The Alaska Native Brotherhood Camp 1 and the Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 4 endorse Crystal Duncan as City of Sitka Assembly candidate. She was the only candidate to attend ANB and ANS meetings and address each organization.
Crystal has the educational background and professional experience to serve our Sitka community well; to represent all Sitkans; and to represent our Native community and Native issues. As a lifelong resident of Sitka, Crystal is ready to roll up her sleeves and get to work on how to carry Sitka through the challenges brought to us due to covid 19. These include keeping our businesses strong; protecting the health of our citizens; and tackling food and housing security during these unprecedented times where our families are facing obstacles most of us never dreamed of before.
This commitment also includes getting out into the community to speak to, and most importantly to listen to people, to find out first-hand from Sitka residents the needs most directly impacting businesses and the lives of our families and children. She is articulate and has repeatedly displayed a willingness to collaborate and work as part of a team, a necessary skill in order to make our City Assembly effective. But Crystal can also respectfully stand up for issues that are high priorities, a skill especially important in today’s sometimes divisive social context.
ANB Camp 1 and ANS Camp 4 strongly endorse the candidacy of Crystal Duncan for City of Sitka Assembly and we urge you to vote for her in the current election. We are confident she will represent us well on the Assembly.
Alaska Native Brotherhood Camp 1 President Harriet Beleal,
and ANB Camp 1 members,
and Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 4 President Nancy J. Furlow,
and ANS Camp 4 members
