NOVEMBER 10, 2009 - 8:35 PM
Quilting estate: Maxine Holliday, left, and her daughter Angela Lewis helped with Barbara Norton's estate. The two women are now finishing many of the quilts that Norton left behind. (MARC LESTER / Anchorage Daily News)Barbara Norton kept to herself, living alone on a her small retirement in an apartment in Fairview. Late in the summer of 2008, she died suddenly at her sewing machine. She was 61.
Anchorage police set about searching for her family. While at her apartment, APD chaplain Bert McQueen noticed there was very little furniture, but it was full of quilts. All waiting to be finished.
NOVEMBER 10, 2009 - 5:14 PM
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Steve Brown and friend. Photo courtesy Steve Brown.November 13, Friday, 8:30am-noon. Gardeners are invited to the Friday morning forum of the Alaska Farm Bureau annual meeting. Presentations include Chicken University, learn to raise chickens in your backyard presented by CES agent Steve Brown, Growing Apples in Alaska presented by grower Dan Elliott and Preserving Your Harvest presented by CES home economist Leslie Shallcross. At the Millennium Hotel in Anchorage. $20 registration or $30 including lunch. You can register online here or contact Jane Hamilton at janehamilton99737@yahoo.com or 907-895-4752.
NOVEMBER 10, 2009 - 3:54 PM
NOME, Alaska (AP) — Neal Foster has been appointed to a state House seat to replace his late father, Rep. Richard Foster, who died last month.
Gov. Sean Parnell made the announcement in Nome on Tuesday.
Neal Foster, a Democrat, will serve District 39, an area which stretches from Hooper Bay to Nome.
The 37-year-old Foster is the owner of Foster Properties in Nome, and is a current member of the Nome City Council.
He must be confirmed by a simple majority of House Democrats.
The Alaska Democratic Party sent three names to Parnell as possible replacements for Richard Foster. The other two were Ralph "Weaver" Ivanoff of Unalakleet, a commercial fisherman and a tribal administrator, and Sam Towarak of Unalakleet, an educator in northwest Alaska.
NOVEMBER 10, 2009 - 1:22 PM
The producers of a full-length movie version of Alaska director Andrew Maclean’s award-winning film “On the Ice” (“Sikumi”) will hold a final round of auditions in Anchorage. Maclean is looking for an all-Inuit cast, ages 17-70, for the film, which will be shot in Barrow. Auditions will take place from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 427 D St.
More information is available online at www.ontheicethemovie.com.
NOVEMBER 10, 2009 - 1:16 PM
In his recent blog, Brian Sweeney asserts that doctors are not clones. Yet, for some reason he acts like a clone of the spin doctors. Rather than address the issues involving the war in Afghanistan, he relies on the usual politically correct mantras—blame America first, isolationist, hindsight is always 20-20, etc. Recently, he complained about people not involved in “real debate.” Political spin isn’t real debate, Brian. It’s ducking real debate.
Like the spin doctors, he compares the war in Afghanistan to World War II and insists the “GKs” would have opposed standing up to the Nazis. Well, in fact, Brian, get your facts straight. I was around during the Second World War and did not oppose it. Nor did I oppose the Korean War. Opposing one war does not mean opposing all wars all the time. Didn’t you learn that in your freshman logic class in Dartmouth?
NOVEMBER 10, 2009 - 1:11 PM
Jillie's still working out the whole 'traction' thing
OK, before visitors to adn.com/dogshots start getting the idea that Yorkies are the only dogs who romp in the snow in Alaska, it's time to get out the cameras and snap some pictures of your pooches enjoying (or not!) the snow.
NOVEMBER 10, 2009 - 1:06 PM
From Sean Cockerham in Anchorage –
Frank Bailey’s co-authors for “Renegade: Sarah Palin's Hatchet Man,” are pulling out.
Word came in a brief emailed statement today from Joy Morgan and her daughter, Christiana Grace, Southern California public relations pros who were writing the book with Bailey.
Bailey was Palin’s close aide, director of boards and commissions, and a figure in the “Troopergate” investigation last year.
“Releve Marketing and PR of San Diego, CA has made the decision today to no longer represent or co-author Frank Bailey's upcoming book Renegade: Sarah Palin's Hatchet Man.”
It was a pretty abrupt announcement, since just yesterday Morgan and Grace sent out a press release to promote the book, saying that “although Palin has worked hard on attaining a polished public image, behind the scenes things were often a very different story. Bailey, one of Palin's closest inner circle, tells that story.”
Grace wouldn’t say why she and her mother are dropping out, but said it’s nothing personal.
“Frank Bailey and I have been close friends since college and we remain close friends,” she said.
Grace declined to provide any contact information to reach Bailey regarding the book.
NOVEMBER 10, 2009 - 12:36 PM
Alaska connections collected three awards today when the Western Collegiate Hockey Association announced its weekly honors.
UAA junior winger Sean Wiles and North Dakota junior winger Evan Trupp of Anchorage shared the Offensive Player of the Week award, and Colorado College freshman winger William Rapuzzi of Anchorage snagged the Rookie of the Week accolade.
Wiles racked three goals, six shots on goal and a +4 rating in last weekend's split with visiting Denver. Trupp scored three goals in a sweep at Michigan Tech, and fired seven shots and finished +2 in the series. Rapuzzi furnished two goals and one assist, six shots and a +3 rating in a split with Minnesota-Duluth.
NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - 4:41 PM
The Pebble Fund, a charitable fund created by the companies trying to develop the proposed mine, recently announced it is giving $600,000 to 18 groups this winter.
The Pebble Partnership says the funding demonstrates its commitment to providing benefits the region where it hopes to build the massive mine, but the foes of Pebble say the money is an attempt to buy people's support.
In the latest round of giving, the biggest dollar-amount recipient was the city of Nondalton, where some tribal leaders oppose Pebble (The city and tribal council co-signed an anti-Pebble resolution in 2005). The fund previously awarded $1 million to 33 groups last March. A third cycle of awards is expected in the spring. Here's the details:
NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - 3:42 PM
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The lilac looks lovely with the new snow and lights entwined in it. Photo by Fran Durner. View a timelapse video of a garden through the season
NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - 3:40 PM
So I ran for the first time today since the morning of 22 August 2007. Granted the whole running thing was not completelty unassisted, I was running in a G-Trainer. It is a type of treadmill that has an airbag support that you are zipped into. I only ran for about 5 minutes with only 50% of my body weight, but it's a start. The docs don't really know about it though, there is this concern they have about my bone density. They seem to worry that my hip will shatter, I just want to get 12 more jumps.
I saw on the front page that you guys got snow, I'm jealous! We are working on the time line to get back up. My med board is still moving along, we're having issues with my PEBLO, who is WORTHLESS! We've got to complete the board and then the COAD (continuation of active duty) to get back on status. That should be done this spring and I'll still have time to make sure there are no issues with the return. We are trying to wait to PCS until JJ is done with the school year.
NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - 3:34 PM
By MIKE DUNHAM
Fred Anderson: Self portrait in 2004.
A blue ink drawing by Fred Anderson Sr. at the recent "Virtual Subsistence" group art show sent us to the archive where we discovered he's won previous statewide exhibitions twice with self portraits. And the berry-picking bug in the "Virtual Subsistence" show kinda reminds me of him, too.
Fred Anderson: Self portrait in 2006.
From his home in Naknek, the artist said he got interested in the difficult blue Japanese ink while trying to teach himself how to draw some years ago. Living in Naknek, that's how you do it, the nearest art academy being some hundreds or thousands of miles away.
NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - 3:27 PM
ANCHORAGE (AP) — An Alaska man convicted of selling methamphetamine has been sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison.
Prosecutors say 54-year-old Eulogio Seludo conspired with his son-in-law to sell methamphetamine in Ketchikan in 2007 and 2008.
Shortly before issuing the sentence Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Ralph R. Beistline said Seludo was willing to poison the community of Ketchikan for his own personal needs, and the evidence presented at trial was "overwhelming."
A federal jury deliberated for almost four hours before convicting Seludo in August.
NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - 2:20 PM
“There is no freedom without knowledge.” - James Watson, molecular biologist
PING PONG BALLS, APPLES AND EARTH---OUR THIN SKIN OF LIFE -
From Mt. Everest to the deepest ocean canyons---the Earth would feel smooth as a ping pong ball if it were reduced to that size.
The skin of an apple is relatively thicker than Earth’s atmosphere. The diameter of an apple is about 75 times thicker than it’s skin.
Earth’s diameter is roughly 125 times the thickness of it’s atmosphere.
Therefore, when we talk about Humans destroying the Planet what we are really referring to is disturbing the delicate equilibrium of that thin surface layer of ocean, land and atmosphere in which most of life thrives. [There are living organisms thousands of feet below the surface---perhaps they will reseed life if we blow it.]
NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - 2:13 PM
Ready to play
Ready or not, the snow has arrived, and that can mean challenges for dog owners not lucky enough to own a northern breed.
How does your dog do in the snow, and what precautions do you take to make it a pleasant experience? Are there any problems you haven't been able to solve? Lastly, any pet peeves with how some of your neighbors treat their dogs in the cold?
NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - 2:12 PM
I wrote this story appearing in today's paper about the recent uptick in gold production in Alaska.
While I worked on that story last week, I was curious, too, about hardrock mineral exploration, so I asked some state officials to give me stats showing whether it's been up or down over the last few years. That data is below. As faithful Pebble Blog readers know, there is a lawsuit in state court right now claiming the state's current exploration permit process violates the state constitution. Will that lawsuit put a damper on next year's exploration? That's hard to say right now, because key rulings in the case are still pending. We'll at least know about how many companies applied to explore in 2010 by the end of the first quarter of the year.
NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - 1:48 PM
Total Reclaim's Larry Zirkle shows off shredded electronics ready for recyclingThis Saturday, November 14, from 10am until 3pm, residents can recycle household-generated electronics at Tri-Digital Computer Services in Eagle River. The event is for household customers only so, please, no business electronics.
Only $15/carload! Limit 2 TVs/monitors.
Additional TVs/monitors are $15 each.
Payment accepted by cash or check only.
NO SCAVENGING PERMITTED.
Location: Tri-Digital Computer Services
17034 N. Eagle River Loop Road, Eagle River
Across the street from the Elks Lodge and Cozy Carpet,
next to Valley Home Center Hardware (Trustworthy Hardware).
In cooperation with: Total Reclaim, Chugiak/Eagle River Chamber of Commerce, Tri-Digital Computer Services, Green Star, and ALPAR.
For further information, call Total Reclaim at 561-0544.
NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - 1:16 PM
Good news for the Alaska Aces today: They're getting a player back from the American Hockey League.
Nope, not center John Lammers, but still a nice addition. Headed back this way is defenseman T.J. Fast, who the St. Louis Blues assigned back to Alaska from AHL Peoria.
Fast played two games for Peoria and earned a +1 rating. In the first four games of the Aces' season, he earned an assist and a -1 rating. Figure on Fast being put on a power-play unit.
NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - 12:11 PM
No doubt there will be another Bill Allen – the question is, what can we do to reduce his chances of success? For a start, we can move the capitol off what is, essentially, a remote island and closer to where more of us actually live.
Doing so, could reduce corruption by over 52%. How can I be so exact? Well, I ran the numbers. With some help.
Using Department of Justice and U.S. Census Bureau figures, USA Today ranked all the states according to how many public officials were convicted of corruption between 1998 and 2007. I added some geographic data and happened upon these fun facts:
NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - 11:33 AM
Fresh off a home-ice split with Notre Dame (ranked No. 8 in both national polls), UAF leaped to a No. 9 ranking in both Division I national polls released today.
The Nanooks (6-1-1, 3-1-0 CCHA, third place) leaped to No. 9 from No. 14 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll, and rose to No. 9 from No. 13 in the USCHO.com/CSTV Poll. (For what it's worth, off the top of my balding head, I don't remember a higher ranking for UAF).
UAF rebounded Saturday with a 3-1 win over the Irish after falling for the first time all season, 3-2 to Notre Dame, on Friday.
Of course, all eight of the Nanooks' games have been played in Alaska, including six at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks. UAF finally hits the road this week, and its upcoming schedule, despite three of the next four series on the road, is as appealing as possible.
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