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Marlin “Mike” Williamson 6/17/1926 to 2/11/2013
Our deepest sympathies go out to the many friends and loving family of Marlin “Mike” Williamson who passed away today, Monday, February 11, 2013.
“Hunter, Fisherman, good friend, husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. His Daniel Boone spirit will be remembered and cherished by all. Thank you to the Seldovia community for always being a friend to him.” – the Williamson Family.
Boys Basketball Tournament 2013
by Jenny Chissus
Join Seldovia to cheer for the Seldovia Sea Otters as they battle Wasilla Lake, Kalskag and Nanwalek for the Tournament Championship this weekend! If you missed tonight’s games, you will have a chance to see our Otters play tomorrow and Saturday!
The early game this evening featured Wasilla Lake vs. Kalskag, and Wasilla Lake earned the win. Tonight’s 7:30pm game with the Otters against Nanwalek was exciting with many amazing shots, turnovers, fouls, rebounds, leg cramps, air balls, ally oops, free throws, steals, three-point shots, assists, calls on traveling, pushing, tons of dribbling, fast breaks, lay ups, charges, holds, intentional fouls, and lots of great sportsmanship as one of the Nanwalek players fouled out – and as a courtesy, we took one of our 5 guys out of play to keep the game fair! Nanwalek played a great game, with only 4 players, they all had to play every second of the game! We have had seasons like that too, so we can totally relate to the hard work, dedication and athleticism that goes into being a team of five!! In fact, we are dealing with that for our girls team this year, as we only have 4 girls from Seldovia and Kelsey from Nanwalek who makes our team complete – enabling us to have a basketball season with the girls. It is A LOT of hard work!
The game started out with Seldovia leading on the scoreboard, then Nanwalek got fired up and took over the lead through end of the first quarter, and all the way through the second quarter. During the third quarter, we went back and forth, and both teams fought hard to keep their lead on the scoreboard. In the 4th quarter, the Otters led and finally sealed the win at 81 to 69! Way to go Otters! Good game Eagles!
Join us for the remaining tournament games:
Friday, February 8, 2013
5:30 Nanwalek vs Kalskag
6:45 Three Point Contest
7:30 Seldovia vs. Wasilla Lake
Saturday, February 9, 2013
11:00 Nanwalek vs. Wasilla Lake
1:00 Seldovia vs. Kalskag
Awards Ceremony to follow final game.
Former First Lady Talks with Seldovia
by Jenny Chissus
Taken from the OWL site: The Alaska OWL Project is a grant funded initiative designed to improve the computing capabilities of public libraries throughout the state of Alaska. The project is being funded by the United StatesDepartment of Commerce BTOP Initiative, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rasmuson Foundationand the Alaska State Library.
Our mission is to provide all Alaskans with the benefits and opportunities that come hand in hand with high speed Internet. This includes areas such as e-government services, distance education opportunities and increased access to professional development.
We are excited to remind Seldovia about the wonderful new equipment and programming that has become available to our community through the program OWL (Online with Libraries) – opening the door of access to experts and educators of many specialties, in culture, arts, history, languages and science among other subjects! If you check out the map to the left, you can see all the locations in Alaska taking advantage of this great educational program!
Sorry for the very late notice – but tomorrow morning, the class featured is “Reading Discovery With Barbara Bush” – and actually, one of our very own Seldovian student’s question was selected to be answered by Mrs. Bush during the event!
So, Zack Scribner will be asking Mrs. Bush his question about the book “Capital” tomorrow morning!
Out of our whole countries selections (each school which participates with OWL was allowed to submit 10 questions) only 15 questions were chosen for Mrs. Bush to answer during the teleconference. So, this is quite an honor!
As this is open to the public, join us tomorrow, Thursday, February 7, 6:45am – 8:15am (Yes, I know it is early!) to get this opportunity to see our new equipment in action, and meet the Former First Lady Mrs. Barbara Bush! We certainly want to give her a warm hello from Seldovia!
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Former First Lady Mrs. Barbara Bush will read excerpts from award-winning author Lynn Curlee’s book, “Capital.” Mrs. Bush will answer questions asked by students during the videoconference. David Ferriero, 10th Archivist of the United States, will give insights about our nation’s capital city. On-stage students as Reading Buddies will share the history of Washington, D.C.’s awe-inspiring monuments from “Capital.” The program concludes with The Quartet of Singing Cadets at Texas A&M University.
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For more information about the OWL program and equipment, along with upcoming conferences available to our community, please go directly to the Seldovia Public Library’s website here.
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