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Close Up Students Continue Their Fundraising Efforts
by Jenny Chissus
We are so thankful for the support we’ve received from the community for the student’s trip to Washington DC for the Close Up conference in April. With just one month to go until the departure, the students are in full and final fundraising mode to finance the lodging, tuition and airfare for the trip.
Thank you especially to the following sponsors who generously donated the following items for the grand basket raffle! As you can see, there is a TON of value in these items, and anyone who lives or visits Seldovia, Homer or Anchorage will greatly enjoy spoiling themselves with these wonderful gifts, stays and travel certificates!
WA DC Close Up Gift Basket Items:
Fat Olives Dinner for 2 in Homer
Linwood Bar & Grill – 2 certificates for 1 Large Pizza any kind
Dimond Center Hotel – 2 night stay in Anchorage
Smokey Bay -1 RT ticket across the bay
Mako Water Taxi – 2 RT tickets and Sweatshirt
Bridgekeeper B&B – $100 gift card
Gear Shed – 2 Happy Trollers for the troller who thinks they have everything
Homer Jeans- Dakine small backpack & Yoga Mat with carry strap
Northwind in Homer –Journal
Hand knit socks by Alta Colberg
Homer Bookstore-Journal & Reading light
Blackberry Bog – Cocoa/mug gif
The students; Aidan, Calem, Devin, Marina, Olivia, Thor, Xandria are all available with tickets to sell! You can have one chance to win this great basket for $10, or get a FREE extra ticket, when you purchase 6 tickets for $50! If a student doesn’t come to you – please feel free to stop by the school, or give the school a call 234-7616 and they will make sure to get you connected with some tickets!
Drawing will be held on April 11, 2014 – and you do NOT need to be present to win!
Thanks Seldovia and all these great businesses for your generous and continued support of our students and their education!
In Our Own Words
by Jan Yaeger
Seldovia Village Tribe Launches Community Oral History Project Preserving Seldovia’s Photos, Films and Memories
Do you know your family’s stories? Have you thought about how to pass them down to future generations? Do you have family photographs and slides that you wonder how to protect, or old VHS tapes or family films that you can’t watch anymore because they are deteriorating or you don’t have the equipment? The Seldovia Museum has an answer!
If you have a post office box in Seldovia, you may remember getting a survey in the mail about a year ago, asking about your potential interest in an oral history project the Seldovia Museum was hoping to do. We got a terrific response, showing strong support from the community of Seldovia, and we are thrilled to tell you that this project was awarded funding from the Institute for Museum & Library Services. The project, called “In Our Own Words”, is now underway!
There are several parts to this project. We are surveying recordings we already have, as well as gearing up to do new interviews and add material, such as historical photos and video, to our archives. But this is truly a community project: although our main goal is to record the many stories and images of Seldovia for the public, we also want to assist community members in preserving your own Seldovia-related stories, photos, videos, and audio recordings. We can Continue Reading
Exxon Valdez: 25 Years Later
By Rosanna McInnes
We will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill with a statewide Video-teleconference and presentation. Join us at the Seldovia Public Library from 7 – 9 p.m. on Monday, March 24th. This will be our first presentation with our own content and the presentations will be made by local members of SOS and Nuka Bay Research.
The oil spill was a huge part of the history of this community and people who were here then have deep and painful memories about that time. This will be their chance to share and remember. Bring your memorabilia, photographs, or stories, and be ready to listen and share, as SOS talks about the evolution of small town oil spill response and it’s future. Audience members will be given a chance to share their memories or special items that help to commemorate the spill. We will connect via OWL to Barrow, Kotzebue, Homer, Valdez, Craig, Glenallen, and the Loussac Library in Anchorage! This event will be recorded by the Alaska state library to keep in their archives as well.
You don’t want to miss this special event!
Seldovia’s City Manager Serves on the Board for Team Alaska
by Jenny Chissus
Our City Manager is the President of the Board of Directors for Team Alaska, and the Arctic Winter Games has been going on all week – so I touched base with him to see how it was going and what it’s all about!
“The Arctic Winter Games is the world’s largest northern multi-sport and cultural event. The Arctic Winter Games are a celebration of athletic completion, culture, friendship and cooperation between northern contingents. Athletic competition features sports that enjoy worldwide popularity alongside traditional Arctic Sports and dene Games. A significant cultural component featuring visual arts, dance, ceremonies and galas with participants from across the circumpolar region is a pillar of the Games.” – the Arctic Winter Games site
Over 2,000 Athletes (ages 13-24) and their coaches, 2,500 volunteers, 3,000 friends and family members and over 600 VIPs and sponsors will be taking part in this year’s games in Fairbanks, Alaska from March 15-22, 2014. The contingents are from Alaska, Alberta North, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik Quebec, Greenland, Sapmi, Yamal and Yukon.
Arctic Winter Games Medal Count Friday March 21, 2014
Gazette: There are quite a few events at the Arctic Winter Games, what is your favorite sport to watch? (Check out the long list below of events in this year’s games! ) To the right I’ve put the medal count as of Friday, March 21, 2014 around 9:00pm – games still in play, and just one more day to go!
Tim: I enjoy watching all of them. Although I find things like curling, dene games, Continue Reading
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