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Christmas Lighting Competition Results 2012
by Jenny Chissus, photos by Darlene Crawford
The HEA and Seldovia Chamber sponsored Christmas Lighting Competition was a complete success!
Thank you to the many individuals and businesses who created beautiful lighting displays about town this year. First place winners in the Residential and Business categories each receive a $125.00 credit with HEA, and the second place winners in each category receive a credit for $100.00. Thank you HEA for sponsoring this competition!
It was difficult to ascertain the most beautiful – but that is the job of the selection committee for the Seldovia Chamber of Commerce.
The first place winner in the Residential category goes to Keith Swick – who lights up his neighborhood with the most colorful display!
Dick and Lisa Yingling’s brilliantly decorated home on the slough received second place! Continue Reading
Merry Christmas Seldovia
by Jenny Chissus
These photos were taken this morning and afternoon – we had a gorgeous sunny day – and a truly beautiful White Christmas! Enjoy!
Merry Christmas Seldovia!
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Homer Electric Christmas Outage – UPDATE
by Joe Gallagher
UPDATE 5:45pm – The largest outage is in the Seldovia area where power is out along Jakolof Bay Road to Big Tutka Bay. HEA crews were able to get to the Seldovia area on Tuesday, but the heavy snowfall prevented the crew from being able to patrol the entire line and make the repairs needed to safely energize the line between the generation plant and Big Tutka Bay. The crew will return to the area on Wednesday morning to continue the restoration on work.
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
by Jenny Chissus
On December 22, around 7:00pm it started to snow! In the spirit of Christmas, it just kept on snowing! All night, and then again, all day yesterday! We had about 9-10 inches by early yesterday morning here in the heart of Seldovia on Main Street.
Most of Sunday, it snowed and snowed! Though it was a quiet day, and most folks were hunkering down at home, hopefully wrapping presents, sipping hot chocolate or spiced rum, we ran into Matt Gallien at the Fuel and Lube, who had to call in (since the Flube is normally closed on Sundays) to fuel up in order to maintain the streets of town.
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The photos below were taken last evening as the Chissus clan went down to manage the boats in the harbor that required shoveling. The harbor was still, ice on the water and each finger of the dock was completely untouched. The only other activity in the harbor were otters that had the whole harbor to themselves and had broken through the ice and were swimming about playfully, just watching us breaking through the fresh snow as we trudged from boat to boat. There was one finger near the end of B dock that the otters had completely cleared off in order to have a place to get up and out of the water. There was easily over 2 feet of snow on the docks – and boats!
I’ll be heading out today for more photos, as there has been at least 6 more inches since then! My husband spoke to a few folks out the road this morning, and so far, in the last 24 hours, they have measured over 29 inches of snow! It is still coming down – and as the article before this one mentioned, we are currently running on generation from the Gerry Willard Generation Plant – so folks out the road are without power on this Christmas eve. Stay warm everyone – and here’s to a very White Christmas!
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